Posted on 05/29/2018 8:18:00 AM PDT by CodeToad
A car that could self-drive only on, say, freeways that have aids for the self-driving mechanism would be would be great!
The smoke and mirrors coming from these cars is hard to believe. I don’t know anyone who wants one.
“However they still need to work out the minor fudge factors, like the car a couple months ago which actually hit and killed a pedestrian who was walking beside a bicycle, crossing the road.”
uh, yeah. killing people is definitely a “minor glitch” ...
We have a few round-a-bouts in our town that the lines are not painted at all properly. Cars crash into each other all the time. A computer wouldn’t do any better.
Let's not forget that the manufacturer ALWAYS has access to the car for "important software updates" &c. It's a given that government will use and abuse that feature as well. The same folks who bring you no-knock raids, mistaken-identity death certificates, same-name incorrect arrest warrants &c will be able to turn your car off at any time. Maybe even while it's moving.
Bingo, and don't forget motorcycles
Also there is no such thing as a "self driving car". Someone WILL be driving the car and that someone could be a computer programmer, a government agency like FEMA or the EPA, Google, facebook, george soros. Just remember there will be someone driving, it just won't be YOU. Ain't that just warm and fuzzy?
My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the Motor Law
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What is being touted as the reason we MUST all use self-driving cars is their safety will be near-perfect and that any human driving is more dangerous.
Just advertising they are just as good as human drivers will defeat their purpose.
Just advertising they are just as good as human drivers will defeat their purpose.
I should add that a big bonus of driverless cars is that there will be roads where only driverless cars will be allowed. The reason is that the cars will coordinate and weave in and out of side streets, or tailgate for fuel economy at high speeds in ways that throwing a human driver into the situation would bring utter chaos. On “all driverless car” roads, the ability for cars to communicate with other cars and automated traffic control would make traffic lights obsolete. But human drivers could not be allowed on such roads.
are these the same folks who gave us a GPS system that steers drivers into canals, etc?
A technology which requires government force to implement is a bad technology that should be rejected out of hand.
I’m curious how these self driving cars do in a heavy rain storm, or snow storm.
Similar. They’ll use GPS and roadway sensors as much as possible but there is no way it will get even 90% correct.
Reality and the Real World will lay more than enough ‘traps’ for these fad (golden turd) machines.
Many lawyers will become rich and countless others will ‘make a good living’ with all the lawsuits that will be in the future.
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