Posted on 03/18/2015 6:41:09 AM PDT by kosciusko51
He's right.
But it won't come from the government, at least not directly. The insurance companies will make human operated vehicles outrageously expensive to insure. And the cost for self driving cars will be cheap. Everyone will have one because they won't be able to afforn not to. You may be able to own human driven cars, but it will soon be like owning a class III firearm.
All cars having any electronics in the engine management, brakes, steering or power transmission systems, regardless of who or what is "driving" will have problems after a sufficiently close & powerful EMP.
"“It would be easy to say the modern car is a computer on wheels, but it’s more like 30 or more computers on wheels,” said Bruce Emaus, the chairman of SAE International’s embedded software standards committee."
"According to Bob Hrtanek, a spokesman for the auto supplier Delphi Powertrain Systems, the first Delphi units were introduced around 1980 to improve emissions systems."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/technology/05electronics.html?_r=0
The total take over of humanity will tell us where to live, when to go to the bathroom, when we use too much water and breath to much. We will be denied access to rural area which will be uninhabited. We will be monitored for illegal thoughts and those violators will be sent off to the glue factory.
Eventually, walking and biking will be outlawed, too.
“Will the Asian robotic cars be the worst drivers?”
The electronic control components will be sourced from China. That should take care of it. :)
What happens when you are driving down the road and your kid flips the US/UK switch?
I’m not saying this is the right way to go, but some newer cars today have some obstacle avoidance features in them.
The ability to perceived and avoid dangers via sensors and computers is constantly getting better, but I see it as a nightmare having software doing all of the driving, due to bugs or hacks. The tech needs to mature a lot before this remotely becomes a viable idea.
Nice! Beautiful car.
And there will be a robot nurse to help you get in your wheelchair and help with various sanitary issues. Brave new world.
Recall that his rise to fame started with the purchase of an expensive fast car. Anyone have a nail-clippers?
And the ones in need of software updates will drive with their blinker on.
If Microsoft designs to software we can expect the “Blue Screen of Death” to acquire a whole new level of meaning.
Such a regulation as he proposes would be a backdoor way of banning cars for most people, because most people couldn’t afford the robot-cars.
Cars are not planes. Autopilots work because the environment that planes fly in is very forgiving. There are very few "hard things" in the air to collide with because the sky is huge and 3 dimensional.
Cars operate in 2 dimensions. It is a much more complex environment. When 2 cars pass each other on a two lane road and miss each other by 4 feet(which happens millions of time per hour) that same thing happening to two aircraft (getting that close) would be a near miss requiring FAA and NTSB investigation.
As a regime affiliate, that’s the philosophy I’d expect him to have.
We believe It was caused by "The Blue Screen Of Death".
“Hal - You were supposed to turn left to enter the Auto Recycling Depot.”
“Hal - The road ends up ahead at the cliff!”
“Hal !”
“Hal ?”
“SORRY DAVE...”
”You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.”
No to really screw it up takes a computer...AND a government program.
Technology issues aside, I would only want this as an option; i.e., I'd like to be able to have a "computer-assist mode" as well as a "manual-drive mode" in such a vehicle.
It is our essence as Americans to be able to get in a car and go nearly anywhere we like. It would be a shame to lose that in the name of technology.
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