Rep. Bill Shuster travels to Pittsburgh International Airport in driverless car

WTAE ^ | September 4, 2013

[Resolute Conservative]

I just saw your #18, kind of mirror what I am saying in #19.

[matt1234]

The perfect metaphor for our present federal government: guidance from afar, no vision of the path ahead, and no personal accountability.

[Venturer]

Can’t wait until they use that at Nascar, Should be exciting——not.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Great way for electronic jihadis to kill a lot of people.”

Or for the CIA to take out people like journalist Michael Hastings who was prepping an exposé on Obama and the sanitization of his passport records.

[thackney]

I think the driver option will have been eliminated long before then.

Not a chance. There are plenty of us who's work involves driving on the highway to a location where we are not driving on roads.

[4yearlurker]

Alright! No more DUI checkpoints. party on!

[Jonty30]

It would be also a handy way for the government to slowly section off no go zones, and the population eventually forgets those zones because there is no way to get to them on foot, unless you want to walk 100 miles or more.

[Resolute Conservative]

Like pieces of our country they sell off to pay debts or food generating areas so we don;t see what we are eating anymore (shades of soylent green)?

[BikerJoe]

It would be also a handy way for the government to slowly section off no go zones, and the population eventually forgets those zones because there is no way to get to them on foot, unless you want to walk 100 miles or more.

Yeah, and if you've ever visited FR and been deemed a potential terrorist, they can program it to lock you in and haul you to the local FEMA camp. No muss, no fuss.

[PGR88]

The down side I see to this is that over half of our population is too stupid to make the jump to the “panacea futuristic” world we sometimes see on tv where every one is released from manual labor to pursue higher callings and the world is all good. That leaves technology taking the jobs away from people who will never rise above the labor type jobs (some may not want to ex: real cowboys) and thus causing even more disparity in the classes. Will that tipping point come and cause those to get on board, get weeded out, or rebel? I am thinking #3.

Great minds think alike. Yes, I think it will be some version of what you say. I don't see the "rebel" option though (not very soon anyway). Americans are getting too soft for that, and the checks (even if devalued) will keep coming from Uncle Sam. Technological and productivity advancement will be what saves the high debt, money-printing, low-labor participation welfare state from collapse.

[NonValueAdded]

Will he file a bill calling for RWI penalties?

[I want the USA back]

The situation on a typical highway is extremely complex. Trusting peoples’ lives to a computer program is a very very dumb enterprise.

“Oh there will be precautions. redundant systems. fail safe. blah blah blah”

You’ll have to pry my steering wheel out of my cold dead hands.

[TBP]

The sequester? :)

[DaxtonBrown]

I’m on the same plan. Finishing up restore of 67 Camaro and 57 bel Air. Infinitely repairable. Still need a 53 Chevy pickup, then I’m set.

[floralamiss]

LOL!