I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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

1. millenial turns into whompy disfigured minority. A heartwarming lefist tale from the cult of Elon.

2. The only self driving vehicle that should even exist should be running on a rail, magnetic or otherwise. Way too may variables for todays computer tech to cope with. Many Canadians think they live in a climate like Florida and neglect snow, and ice and freezing rain and massive amounts of slush. Self driving tech cannot reasonably cope with this. I could go on but any Canadian with a drivers licence must have experienced winter in the past.

3. My neighbour (100% thoroughbread soy boy ), just bought one…
   In Calgary.
   Its gonna be interesting to see how “she” fares in -25C Days.
   $ 65,000 Of computer junk.
   And in a City over-run with Cantonese – Mandarins that have to be the planet’s worst drivers..?? yea, well I give him, 8-12 months before its scrap.

   Pour Quoi..?? une millenial pour certainne.!!

   1. We were in Toronto turning right off Portland onto Front Street. A lady (Chinese) in front of us could not decide if she wanted to turn left or right. She was in the middle of the intersection but blocking both turning lanes. She had her left blinker on but her car was pointed to turn right. No pedestrians. We waited patiently as she sat there through the entire green light which eventually turned red. We finally honked and she turned left on the red light after giving us an evil look through her rear view mirror. That is genetic.

4. Zero sympathy. She likely voted for electric car subsidies, and took them when delivered.

   There needs to be a 35 trillion per litre surtax on anyone who has ever been an Environmentologist.

   There needs to be someone, somewhere, willing to force them to starve themselves to death, to live without heat and electricity, because that is what they claimed they wanted.

5. When Aerospace Engineering code an Airplane to counter MAX Thrust (upward incline) forcing a nose down condition….You have stupidity magnified… Yep! Trust the Mickey Mouse Gamers

6. I think i’ll wait about 50 years or so before i trust a ‘self driving’ car…

7. how do people get so stupid…you can convince them we have self driving cars?

   1. A common theme seems to be hitting dividers. I expect the roads are loaded into the GPS systems but not the dividers, especially for exit / on-ramps. There would seem to be an inherent weakness in the system.

8. Seems to me that the people who embrace “self driving” cars … should simply take the bus. Why do they feel the need to clog our motorways with their SINGLE OCCUPANT automobile!? Not very “green” of them, causing the manufacture of a new SOV and all the Co2 spewing manufacturing necessary to feed their selfish need. They should simply hop onboard the nearest HOV (bus) and ride. Stay OFF my motorway with your idiot-car.

   When these defectively-coded automatic death machines start rolling in the public … it won’t be the solo accident and maimings that capture the headlines. It will be the multi-car smash ups and deaths involving innocent actively-driven motor cars who could not avoid their fellow motorists computer.

   1. Answer is F250 or bigger.
      That and the coming “Hack” for safety minded drivers.
      A simple override signal to all “self driven” vehicles;”Go right now,
      Emergency Right turn,full brakes”.
      And given the failure to secure these databases,I fully expect hackers to show us,in living colour, how to hijack your opponents car.
      Makes the old,throwing a brick off the overpass so 19th Century.

      1. I’ve threatened to buy an F250 with duals and a steel flatbed (about head-height) … and take wiiiiiiide turns in my little Tesla-lousy village

9. There is a new Ford commercial out there. “Everyone should have a Ford F150 in their driveway”. Everyone!

   Seems a bit of a radical departure from “we have 12 years to save the planet from fossil fuels”.

10. Tesla spelled backwarďs is alset, which could be reinterpreted as
    “all set” to kill, maybe!
    Now, is that a warning?

11. Live in a rural Saskatchewan. We don’t see these self driving electric toys on our roads. Is it that we’re too poor or cheap to pay the extra money or is it that we realize how dangerous they would be in a bitter prairie winter? I think the latter.

12. …so for $135K how many gallons of gas would that buy for my 2011 F150?