24 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  1. To the tune Non Dimenticar. An old Nat King Cole ballad.

    No demented car can ever travel far
    ON BATTERIES

    It’s better not to roam too far away from home
    ON BATTERIES

    Add a line if you can …

  4. Wait! What!? … THAT crash caused “critical injuries” to the “Attendant”. Good thing these contraptions don’t go fast. And BTW … what’s the Attendant-to-rider ratio? How is THAT remotely affordable? Oh yeahhhhh … thanks taxpayer subsidies! Thanks carbon taxes!!

    1. These are the new “green jobs” we’ve been promised.

      Driving as accurately as a Facebook Fact Checker.

  5. C’mon Man!, the driver was double jabbed. Had a cardiac incident. Our AI overlords, would never hurt us

  6. Ahhhhh… the little bus tried to hug a tree. Smart and so cute… everything people look for in a bus.

    1. building economy from the hart

      The way government policies are being implemented, it’s building it from the phart.

    2. “Learn to code”.
      It sounds so easy until ‘confronted’ with ‘reality’.

      The wiper blade looks OK. I could use a new one.

    1. L – How is it autonomous, because it’s the one giving the orders, not the one obeying them.
      (see- Hal, the movie 2001. I bet you thought that was fiction.)

  9. Wait a moment ! The shuttle is equipped with a smart torch and could not burn the tree down before the collision ?

  10. ““integrates smart infrastructure along the route to help create safer roads for pedestrians, transit customers and other drivers.”

    someone moved a piece of the “smrt infrastructure” and pointed it at a poor tree…

    I’m also curious how the “attendant” was critically injured at 20 kph, did he forget his seatbelt? was he sleeping so he couldn’t hit the emergency stop button when the tree suddenly lept in front of the bus?

  11. L – A.I. controlled vehicles versus trees. On a street with a very low percentage of area covered by trees. The vehicle lost. What are the odds? Or did the tree provoke the incident?

    The real test will be a fleet of A.I. controlled vehicles versus a forest of trees.
    Sooner or later, one of the A.I. vehicles will burst into flames and burn down a lot of trees;
    but also the fleet of A.I. vehicles will be immolated, too. The trees will regenerate into a
    forest again and being green, literally, won’t as readily burn.

    From there it turns into guerilla warfare, where repeatedly, a single tree will fall across a road causing the A.I. vehicle(s) to go off the road and roll down a mountain side bouncing off trees. Until it falls into a deep mountain lake and disappears forever. This will be labelled the Arboreal Triangle Syndrome.

    The tree versus vehicle wars, became endemic with neither side able to wipe the other out. If you speak to a few of the older trees, they’ll tell you that the war actually began with the Ford Model A… As you can see, it’s going to be a long war.

  13. That’s pic should be taped to QR77’s Rob Breakenridge’s nose. That idiot salivates over anything and everything to do with making autonomous vehicles our only transportation choice. There’s nothing big that can go wrong in his mind and if it does where much harm’s done to others, oh well, it’s just the cost of real progress. Never mind that the human race is becoming more and more useless and dependent on AI machines by the day. Trend that 20 years down the sewer pipe.

  14. So how is autonomous shuttle with an attendant better that a less complicated shuttle with a driver?

    Can’t wait until one of those catches battery fire while thedoors lock up closed….

    1. Its like those cyclists you love. Now a whole bunch are using bicycles with small motors. They sort of pedal but the motor does a lot of the work. That makes them annoying And lazy.
      (Thinking spandex burns really well.)

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