[gridlock]

Libs hate cars. Cars represent freedom, independence and happiness, so they obviously have to go.

[loungitude]

Can computerized cars drive better than we can?

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Helen Keller can drive better than some of the fools on my commute.

[ClearCase_guy]

They won’t need to put us in cattlecars — they’ll just tell our cars to drive to Auschwitz.

[mountainlion]

Computerized cars have a high accident rate and like to hit pedestrians. I get liberals do not want you to walk either. I do not think that a computerized car could handle most country roads let alone winter weather conditions.

[Fresh Wind]

Steering wheel. Cold, dead hands.

[indthkr]

Nanny State bump for later.....

[Fresh Wind]

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits

Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside

[Boogieman]

They’ll take Americans’ cars just about a week after they manage to take Americans’ guns.

[PIF]

Actually the uber liberals do not want you to live; they believe there are too many people for ‘sustainable living.’ So cars are a step like they used to ban smoking - you remember - just a small section in the back of the plane, then the whole plane, then the restaurants, then the bars, then your work place, then your home ... no driving cars, no meat eating, no rapid breathing, no breathing ...

[discostu]

The level of idiot paranoia this topic brings up is saddening. Really folks, they are not going to take over your car and make you go someplace. The only people even contemplating such a thing are the luddites afraid of the technology. Guys need to get over yourselves.

[Lorianne]

And they want to take your cash too.

The ideal is a ‘cashless’ society ... so they have control over what you buy and who buy it from and when buy it. And selling too.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I long for the day computers do all the driving.

The next time you are in Walmart... look around and think about the fact that these same morons who can barely drive a cart are the ones just inches away from you on the freeway driving 80.

[eastexsteve]

If you want safer drivers, then make them take a physical exam and eye test every 6 months to 3 years like pilots have to (depending upon their ratings.) And, there is a whole laundry list of drugs you better not be taking. I carry a million dollar liability policy with a half million coverage on all passengers and a 100k total loss on the aircraft. That insurance only costs me 700/yr. That should tell you something. Granted, that would take a bunch of drivers off the road, but it would definitely get rid of ones that shouldn’t be there.

[headstamp 2]

As if today’s human race isn’t helpless enough.

[glennaro]

Cars represent freedom, independence and happiness

Absolutely correct. The government cannot control where someone goes when they're in their car ... and the Left/Democrat Socialist Party hates this!

[IronJack]

They'll have to pry the keys from my dead hands.

But, as usual with cowards, they'll do it through the government, by regulating auto manufacturers and state highway funds so that compliance with "auto-autos" become the only viable transportation alternative. The cost of a driver-driven car will become prohibitive, where you can even find one.

Looks like a golden opportunity for an aftermarket "customization" business that specializes in disabling the gestapo-drive.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If they can’t get us to give up our cars, forcing us into computerized ones that go where and when they program them to go is their next-best option.

[Disambiguator]

I added the keyword “redbarchetta” to this thread. It’s the “banglist” for self-driving car articles. Or at least it should be.

:^)

[Snickering Hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBdrMTxsvs

HBO comedy series “Silicon Valley” and the driverless car.

[moovova]

Right.

Let the car’s computer change that flat tire.

[pabianice]

Summary

Underhill, a seller of "Mechanicals" (unthinking robots that perform menial tasks) in the small town of Two Rivers, is startled to find a competitor's store on his way home. The competitors are not humans but are small black robots who appear more advanced than anything Underhill has encountered before. They describe themselves as "Humanoids."

Disturbed at his encounter, Underhill rushes home to discover that his wife has taken in a new lodger, a mysterious old man named Sledge. In the course of the next day, the new mechanicals have appeared everywhere in town. They state that they only follow the Prime Directive: ''to serve and obey and guard men from harm". Offering their services free of charge, they replace humans as police officers, bank tellers, and more, and eventually drive Underhill out of business. Despite the Humanoids' benign appearance and mission, Underhill soon realizes that, in the name of their Prime Directive, the mechanicals have essentially taken over every aspect of human life. No humans may engage in any behavior that might endanger them, and every human action is carefully scrutinized. Suicide is prohibited. Humans who resist the Prime Directive are taken away and lobotomized, so that they may live happily under the direction of the humanoids.

Underhill learns that his lodger Sledge is the creator of the Humanoids and is on the run from them. Sledge explains that 60 years earlier he had discovered the force of "rhodomagnetics" on the planet Wing IV and that his discovery resulted in a war that destroyed his planet. In his grief, Sledge designed the humanoids to help humanity and be invulnerable to human exploitation. However, he eventually realized that they had instead taken control of humanity, in the name of their Prime Directive, to make humans happy.

The Humanoids are spreading out from Wing IV to every human occupied planet to implement their Prime Directive. Sledge and Underhill attempt to stop the humanoids by aiming a rhodomagnetic beam at Wing IV but fail. The humanoids take Sledge away for surgery. He returns with no memory of his prior life, stating that he is now happy under the humanoids' care. Underhill is driven home by the humanoids, sitting "with folded hands," as there is nothing left to do.