"I, For One, Welcome Our New Johnny Cab Robot Overlords"
Posted on 01/21/2020 10:04:11 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Cruise Automation, a subsidiary of General Motors and a developer of driverless vehicles, today unveiled a new vehicle that it designed to operate without a driver on-board in San Francisco. The all-electric minivan does not feature manual controls such as pedals or a steering wheel.
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moving beyond ownership, of your own body, transportation and domicile
no wonder they are starting off with cart to take you to an happy work farm
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dandy brave new world
Cattle cars won't be necessary. It just locks you in and off you go.
Doesn't appear to have cup holders or window openers. So how is a gang gonna do drive-by shootings? Brave new world, with less fun.
What can go wrong? Humans usually don’t malfunction.
CARLORD
A human can drive 30 years ticket & accident free.
A centrally controlled robot has hundreds of malfunctions.
Its only benefit is it pays rent to its elite carlords.
Humans usually don’t malfunction.
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Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl
slow hands joe on the campaign trail...
The syytem has encountered a problem and has shut down to prevent damage to the computerKinda brings a whole new meaning to "blue screen of death"...
“The all-electric minivan does not feature manual controls such as pedals or a steering wheel.”
Now wait a minute, I need a steering wheel and pedals even if their fake. At least I can think I’m in control. What could possibly go wrong?
That gives a driver extra room to kiss their a$$ goodby.
I approve of the fact that they test this stupidity in San Francisco.
They are the ones that think this overcomplicated tech crap is so woke.
They can be the beta testers !
Ask Sam Kinison or James Dean about that.
There’s a chance of reducing auto deaths from 40k or so per year to maybe in the hundreds. But the tech luddites on here are too blind by far to see it. Of course it’ll take more testing but eventually it’ll be like flying. At first fairly bad but over time the safest way.
But will be able to drive on streets covered with feces that will happen after it starts overflowing the sidewalks in a couple of years?
The only thing worse than dying in a self drive vehicle is dying in one that looks that.
This is a really dumb idea and I am not a luddite.
That is one of the ways the robots took over in the fun little novel, "Robopocalypse".
I never saw it explained how those are supposed to get through a construction site or emergency detour where the people running the scene don’t even know how a person is supposed to get through it. I run into those more often than I would like and have to do some quick thinking in those situations. .
they already track all of our money.....
be careful what you wish for people....
What happens when it skids on fresh feces in the streets and gets in an accident? Who will the injured passenger sue?
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