Lets fill'er up folks...
Posted on 08/24/2016 11:44:19 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Someone slam the brakes on this plan.
In a national first, Uber is poised to put a fleet of self-driving cars on Pittsburgh streets. But there's no way people should be permitted to hail rides from semi-autonomous cars until Uber significantly tweaks its vehicular software.
Artificial Intelligence apparently passed its driver's exam, the cars will have emergency backup drivers, and Uber presumably has programmed the vehicles to navigate the streets as safely as possible. Therein lies the problem. Most people seldom drive as safely as possible, particularly in this town.
To put it in terms this sports-obsessed city can best understand, when it comes to driving, Pittsburgh is the automotive equivalent of the Cleveland Browns. But instead of failing to properly pass, run and kick, drivers here fail to properly merge, yield and stop.
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But Heyl has some interesting points here.
In all fairness, though, the only reason the Cleveland Browns never finished 178th is that they never played in a league with 200 teams.
I have mutual acquaintances with the author (a pot-smoking hippie dweeb from back in the day). But he is right about this.
Lol I’ve lived in Pittsburgh, and there are so many two way streets where only one car can fit through at a time. Wonder how this will work :)
Rhode Island has the worst drivers.
So do backup drivers get paid less that regular drivers?
Or do backup drivers just do backing up moves? /s
I wonder what the self-driving car will do the first time it is forced to sit in the street and wait as the driver in the car ahead of it rolls down his window and has a five-minute conversation with somebody on the curb?
I nominate Alabama!!! Drivers here consistently run red lights and stop signs, make right turns from the left lane and vice versa, find turn signals to be optional and a nuisance to use, and do it all while driving 10-15 MPH UNDER the Speed limit (in the left lane until it is time to turn right)
Does this self driving #### mean I can’t buy a cool car next time around and drive it myself?
how soon before you CANT DRIVE a car?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
This is a disaster in the making. Pittsburgh has more curving streets than San Francisco and what are the driverless cars going to do in the strip district which is basically a free for all with trucks and cars stopping and parking in the middle of the street.
BTW, Dallas drivers are the worst. Never seen so many drivers cross three lanes to make an exit.
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I read a different article that said this test is limited in scope.
As well, can you imagine one of these tolling around homewood at 2 a.m.? heh-heh...
Hillary is way out in front on this issue — she already can’t drive a car.
I’d say it’s a toss-up between them and Massachusetts.
What’s a yinzer?
“Yinzer” is a local colloquial term used to describe a native Pittsburgher. The same way people from the U.P of Michigan call themselves Yoopers.
The origin is the second-person plural pronoun “yinz”, which is Western PA’s answer to “y’all”.
Example: “Are you all going to the South Side?” in the local dialect is “Yinz goin’ dahn Sahhs Side n’at?”
rofl
“What’s a yinzer?”
The (slang) plural of you in Pittsburgh is “yinz”. Pittsburghers self identify as “yinzers” for that reason.
I hate this city.
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