Posted on 03/24/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
This article would be a total waste of time. A crap load of disinformation. Except they had pictures of great cars.
My Dodge Challenger has plenty of soul and so does this driver :-)
They will have to pull my cold dead hands off of the steering wheel before I get a driverless car.
Absolutely right. marxists want to make everyone equally miserable and subject to the dictates of the government (except for the ruling elite, which is exempt.) The “driverless” car will force everyone to obey the commands of an algorithm, which will have been duly studied and approved by the proper government authority.
BTW, how do these things work in tunnels or big parking garages? No sat/no cell.
That’s why I have 3 crown vic police interceptors, handles great, fast and fun to drive, plus everyone gets out of the way when you come up behind them hauling ass. Almost impossible to find a rear wheel drive normal car today.
“I used to think anyone driving cars with automatic transmissions were wusses. I’m more tolerant today, but this abomination is just plain bad.”
I still think anybody who drives on roads covered with pavement or gravel are wusses.
I disagree... and see automation as a way of not needing cheap imported labor
I can see niches for driverless vehicles on standardized routes. But how often are you driving in a neighborhood and you see some kids playing basketball in their yard and some youngsters on bikes and you slow down knowing the inevitable kid will run in front of you? Or some homeless person at the corner who you know is randomly going to cross? Or the kid on a skateboard?
Driverless cars will never respond to hose situations.
“Hit the road, Jack” sung by Ray Charles to cars with drivers at the behest of driver-less car manufactures.
Do you want to know what is really soul sucking?
A few months ago I went to my doctor’s office for some minor thing, and when I came out I noticed the same older gentleman waiting in th lobby as when I had arrived may 30 minutes before. It turns out he has been waiting over an hour for a cab to arrive to take him about 1/2 mile to a prosthetic showroom for his artificial leg. He needs the cab because he can no longer drive.
I was in no hurry, so I drove him over to his destination. The point is not to signal my great virtue in giving an old man a ride, but to point out that, as we drove over, I kept thinking that I sure hope they hurry up with those self-driving cars so I can buy one before I get old enough to not be able to drive for myself.
The real soul suck comes when one can’t get around on his own any longer and has to take cabs, or an Uber, and waste a huge amount of time waiting in mind-numbing places.
No one is going to take your little deuce coupe away from you when self driving becomes available. But it is going to mean freedom for a lot of people. And we are no longer going to have to take granny’s keys when she becomes a danger — just get her a car that doesn’t require her to be a road hazard every time she goes to bingo.
Driverless cars are not so much “anti-American” as the issue of them is that their objective is just one part of the “wussification” of human beings. Human beings will need to quit exposing their brains to tackle any task, because robots and automation can do everything better than any human being or any group of human beings, and A.I. is already “proving” that. That is not a sarcastic statement. That is straight from the new religion of the arrogant technologists. Some of their biggest fellow travelers have even suggested that robots and humans need to “merge”.
Oh I think we give the left tard’s the finger and live life as we should
“right of passage”?
I completely agree with the premise of the article. Driverless cars are a leftist wet dream.
Oh, and “Little Red Corvette” by Prince isn’t a road song. May I suggest “Born To Be Wild” by Steppenwolf?
Driverless cars and electric cars powered by sun shine is all part of the utopian wet dreams of the left.
I don’t have a problem with driverless cars being an option.
What I have a problem with is when driving the car myself stops being an option.
Big brother always starts out its social engineering programs as “safer options”, “environment friendly solutions”, or “progress”, and fiegns respect for tradition.
Eventually, the carrot becomes the stick. Tax incentives, discounted insurance rates, and social approval make way for social stigma, penalties, surcharges and restrictions.
Finally, the nonconforming behavior becomes outright illegal.
It will happen as surely as the sun rises in the East.
I picture the car stopping at the tunnel entrance and all the lights start flashing, horn blares.
Do these cars know when there is a cliff they should avoid? Will someone direct it to go on those crazy cliff-ridden roads in CA and it makes a slight mistake beyond the lines and then goes over the cliff? Never mind the other side where it might run into the cliff face...but I assume it can “see” the wall so not as risky as the chasm on the other side.
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Do human driven cars ever have accidents on those roads.
On a related topic there are severe traffic accidents every day involving human driven cars getting out of their lane.
I’m still upset about horseless carriages.
Meh...
Plenty of RWD cars out there, including plenty of ‘AWDs’ that are almost always RWD until a little extra traction is needed.
BMW lives on RWD, as do many if not most ‘performance’ cars and even SUVs.
Default FWD is far superior for most people’s ‘appliance’ needs.
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