Self driving cars is an idea of rich people that never drive anyway
We will be watching out for that, for sure!!!
People with hour long commutes should ask for a cot to be installed.
The General Motors Company (their official post-bailout name) used to emphasize something called the “Voice of the Customer” in it’s product development ‘philosophy’ but I don’t see how this is the result of them actually hearing and listening to it.
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“Voice of the environmentalist wacko subsidized at our expense customer”
Fixed
do these work on gps and motion detection. Both fail in lightening storms. What then at 80 mph? This is absurd.
Does the controlling app connect the cell phone directly to the car, or does it rely on the cell tower infrastructure?
There was a story a year or so ago about some guy with a cell-phone-controlled car who drove out into the Nevada desert, “zero bars”, got out of his car, somehow locked it, and couldn’t unlock it because there was no cell phone coverage there.
Don’t know how he got out of there ... couldn’t call Uber either without a cell phone.
Hitchhike?
....women and children, and carjackers affected most.....
I don’t know about the rest of you but self-driving, self-flying, self-sailing scares the daylights out of me. I think all of it should be banned in this country. Let them do tests in some of the Shit Holes.
I was born with steering wheels, an I was raised with steering wheels, and dad gum it, I am gonna die with steering wheels, and no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna roll my biscuit cutter.
No thanks.
I like the idea of an autonomous vehicle, but it has to allow me to shut off the autonomy and take control.
For those who want more information rather than the usual FReeper snarky comments about new technology:
http://www.gm.com/content/dam/gm/en_us/english/selfdriving/gmsafetyreport.pdf
She won't win any beauty contest, but as my auto gnome noted, they took a compact high center of gravity almost small CUV shape, and with the batteries below the floor and a low CG vehicle with great distribution that handles well. I am still on the fence w/ the self driving thing. Electric is it's enabler. That has to be fungible without destroying the supplier base and reduce charging times to less than 10 minutes. That is coming too.
BTW, I think this whole Electric Car tipping point event will happen within PDJT's 2 terms. Not investment advice, however I can only imagine what it could do to the markets, very much like the tech boom under Clinton...
Years ago (60s) I saw a movie where someone put a mirror in the road at night to make the ‘bad guys’ drive off the road.
Imagaine what pranksters can do to these ...
Time for Trump to pull the plug on extra money going to GM and all the other liberal run companies just for our safety.
This idea has more holes in it than it does body metal.
Take a bus. I will drive my own vehicle.
What happens when you want it to drive you up an unmaped dirt road that runs along the corn field?
How do you tell it to take the Drive Thru? Stop at exactly the right place for the drive thru window? How about drive across the yard to the back of the house?
There is a bad guy after me- Even if he bumps me then don’t stop- Go faster.
Enter the Garage but then swing to the right of the door?
Line up with an automobile lift(left, right, and forward)?
Just think of all the situations where this ends badly.
At some point in the future self-driving cars will be the norm and, overall, will be safer. But I don’t want one now-just too many things that can go wrong.
I could see trying a self driving vehicle, but not one without a steering wheel and manual overrides
I can see the fall’s ads now....
Get your ‘18 models now. You know the ‘19s will be worse.