60 Replies to “Bring On Those Self Driving Cars”

  3. Perfect for the zoned out traveller, que up Iggy Pop”Passenger” and let the boredom roll.
    Not sure such passive persons should be encouraged to survive, the self driving car is a highwayman’s dream.
    A mobile cage that can be diverted( remotely or locally) to the perfect killing grounds and then stopped by planting a live body in front of it.
    Funny how the government “experts” and the manufacturers salespeople all make a virtue of the way the customer is rendered helpless by their purchase.
    These smart cars are very interesting size and weight, the average moose would do far more damage to my F250, in fact a properly designed “Roo Bar” would make destroying them on the run an entertaining pastime.
    How long before the first one is taken over Niagara Fall, to see if it is safer than an oak barrel?

  4. In the Hollywood practice of re-making/re-booting/re-imagining classic movies, can you imagine what trash would be produced with a “new and improved” version of “Bullitt” or “The Seven-Ups”? Instead of laying rubber or loud gear-shifting, we’d get electromechanical humming.
    Real edge of the seat excitement that would be, eh?

  7. That’s a good motto for what the Powers most desire, “it’s your life,be a passenger.We’ll drive”.
    And we’ll take you right where WE want you to go.
    Turn off your brain, relax.

  8. *
    a perfect metaphor for life under our new
    liberal overlords.
    put it on a t-shirt and make a million
    dollars over the next four years.
    *

  9. The brains have already been turned off and that is why we are where we are.

  10. There are perhaps only TWO remaining FREEDOMS that Americans still enjoy: 1) Gun ownership, 2) Freedom of movement. The self-driving car will ELIMINATE one of those FREEDOMS. It must absolutely ENRAGE all the good little leftists on the planet, that people are mobile. That they can MOVE to find better work, better weather, better, dating opportunities 😛 … It must REALLY ENRAGE Hillary Clinton and Obama, that American’s can MOVE to … SUBURBIA. That Americans can FLEE the cesspool created by leftist policies that ARE the American cities.
    Self-driving cars are the ANSWER (International ANSWER’s) to Freedom of Movement. Once everyone is MANDATED to own ONLY self-driving cars … then will come the government control. All your trips will be tracked, limited, and managed. YOUR movement will be dictated by some bureaucrat in Belgium.
    It’s OVER … if Americans are DUMB-ENOUGH to keep electing FASCISTS like Hillary Clintong.

  11. Some tape to cover the sensors should be enough to cause traffic chaos in the New World Driving Order.

  12. They can pry my SUV from my cold dead hands. Plus my dick would never fit in it.

  13. Mach 1 was one of the uglier mustangs.
    Autonomous cars will be stylish on their own way – it will be interesting to see what that looks like. And styling will be driven by the market then just as it was in the Mach 1’s day.
    Autonomous cars are inevitable and will – like automobiles when they dawned – have both negative and positive consequences. And I think they will be massively positive.
    Interesting anecdotal experience has been that middle aged guys I hav talked to almost to a man see the first and greatest benefit will be being able to drink and not having to worry about being busted for DUI.

  14. Don’t own a crystal ball. Not sure what most Americans will vote for. Frightened by the thought that most Americans or people for that matter don’t want to think for themselves or do for themselves. They hate those that do and wish to destroy them. I believe with all my heart that the spiral we are on will be that much faster is billiary gets in. As I have said before not sure if Trump can slow it down or end it or that he really even wants to. Just know that doing the same thing over and over again and thinking something different will happen is nuts. (I plagiarized that). This much I do know about Trump, I will be forever in his debt for turning the light on the Republican Party so that the rest of us could see what cockroaches they are.

  15. Self driving cars…..what can possibly go wrong? Anybody who buys one now or in the near future better have their life insurance paid up.

  16. The traffic control I saw in Singapore (1984) Only allowed cars with licence plates ending in EVEN numbers on one day and ODD numbers the next..These cars can be scrambled & disabled at will. When Hillary’s motorcade comes through..all these cars will piled into the ditch
    The good thing is that if the rider is in an accident with a 16 wheeler… The car can be used as a casket & buried butt up..Puts another name on car parks

  17. Is that the 2016 Soma? Take a holiday with us!
    As the above poster asked, could you imagine Bullitt now? Instead of Eleanor and the 69 Challenger, we’d get a smart car and a Nissan Leaf.

  18. Man, “Boston Brakes” is going to be so obsolete.
    “Accident on Route XYZ, one fatality as car served to avoid an object and impacted a wall at high speed, no witness road, the decendent a well known investigative private journalist…”
    or
    A self driving car suffered a brief loss of control and flattened a pedstrian
    or
    A self driving car entered Highway 1 on an off ramp, the resuktant collisions killed the passenger, immediate cause is not known.
    or
    Semi autonomous vehicle was involved in a horrific accident as the driver took control, and – hey, the black box says it’s true!

  19. Self-driving cars may well change auto racing. The vehicles may conspire with each other to ensure that they are all winners, which in, say, Formula 1, would make for a crowded finish line.
    However, everyone will go home with a trophy….

  20. I actually envision a self-driving car in my future – when I’m too old to drive myself (and that will not be based on age!) and only need to get to church, doctors, the grocery store, and the senior center.

  21. “my dick would never fit in it.”
    Funny. I owned a Trans Am with a 455. Lot’s of dick room.

  22. By then the same people who promote self driving cars will turn you into Soilent Green.

  24. 1974 Mustang II – a Pinto with a facelift? – I owned one of those. My father’s swather had the same 4 cylinder engine. My next vehicle was the Trans Am with a 455.

  25. geeze … how did you ever get any hay harvested ?
    Mustang II … exploding gas tank optional

  27. Governments love robot cars. They can control them; less freedom of movement for you, Joe Public.

  28. Was thinking the same thing. I almost added “pass the soma” to the end of my comment. Dystopian literature is a blueprint for the left.

  29. All hail the Federation!
    Where no one actually has the freedom to own their own vehicle and travel how and where they please. Just like this auto-drive retardation.
    Suck it, pal. Never gonna happen. Not one rusted cent will I spend on it

  31. Does auto pilot on an airplane eliminate the pilots freedom to go where he wants to go? How is this different?

  32. Fill it with high explosives and you have yourself a nice little self driving bomb… terrorists take note.

  33. Joey | July 21, 2016 2:47 PM | Reply
    Self driving cars…..what can possibly go wrong?
    … … …
    A hacker could get a thousand such cars – and their human passengers – to go straight off a bridge in a couple minutes.
    Or make them block all access roads so no one could stop a bunch of terrorists.
    So many possibilities

  34. Honest Officer Friendly, I was only taking the 800 lbs of fertilzer and diesel home, and needed to detour by the embassy.

  35. now that is one stupid, leftardly, comparison. And aircraft is a totally different animal, yah don’t take a 747 to the super market.

  36. I wish no hard feelings on anyone but I can hardly wait for the first smash up while a couple is engaging in what couples in cars often engage in. You know it going to happen.

  37. “Self-driving” automobiles will require a mandatory government edict to succeed.
    Step 2, will be government issued pre-approved destinations only. this justified by “public safety” meaning government manages all traffic.
    Really it is mass public transit via millions of 2-5 person mini-buses.
    In reality, your government will be the bus driver.
    Now I’m worried the government will make it mandatory to my bicycle, too.

  38. Yeah ya hit the open road. Freedom – Route 66 – Hot Rot Lincoln on the box. She’s got cylinders, uses them all. This is livin’……as you sit there playing poke mon.

  39. I have sailed boats with auto helm and you can get auto pilot on planes much smaller than 747s. Self driving cars are not controlled by the government. They control themselves. They are as autonomous as my robotic vacuum cleaner. I am far from being a leftist, but I regularly drive a very long way. I would like nothing more than to be able to sleep in the back seat of my car on the 16 hour drive to Thunder Bay. I honestly do not see how this takes away any of my I independence.

  40. Yes my friends, that lower photo looks about right. So what. It’s 20 years into the future. First let me assure you that I have been a car guy all of my long life. I’ve driven and owned a wide variety of cars and pickup trucks, including custom cars, English and German Sports cars as well as plain vanilla American iron. And I’m a very good mechanic.
    But times have changed …. greatly changed. I lived in San Jose, California as a teenager. The roads were relatively empty in those days. It was FUN to drive. Today, traffic is horrendous almost constantly. And this is not unusual for any urban area….tedious, never ending traffic.
    If your perspective is rural, you’re missing the point of self driving cars. They are not being planned with you in mind. And in fact will not be rolled out in your rural setting for a good many years.
    I recently purchase a Ford Escape. It has sensors everywhere. It has blind spot detection, lane deviation detection, traction control, antilock brakes, voice recognition, self parking, oil change and tire pressure monitoring, and will display on the dash the POSTED SPEED Limit, not to mention the seemingly hundreds of air bags in case of collision …. and it will call 911 by itself if necessary (e.g. roll over). And since I haven’t yet attended the Ford sponsored class on the features (really) yet, God knows what else it has. Do I really need this stuff? Well, no. I grew up with manually cranked windows and a pull out choke. And also because I think of myself as a very good experienced driver…. accident free, etc.
    What’s my point? The point is that modern cars for the mass market are clearly already deep into the phase-in of self driving cars. And for those who live in traffic plagued urban areas, it can’t come soon enough.
    And it will be very welcomed by the elderly (ahem) and the young as well.

  41. I hear Google will throw in a free de-balling operation with every purchase.

  43. Totally useless kids going to totally useless destinations. Hopefully there’ll be a bug to run ’em all off a cliff.
    And all that traction control nonsense, in a truck, will just get you stuck.
    We all know all the corporations kowtow to bureaucratic ‘safety regulations’. If they don’t want you on a certain road at a certain time, you won’t be going there.

  44. Well I like to determine what, how, and were I go and when. Get enough of this self determining crap, and your brain will go south. If you watch some of todays kids, their brains stay south, as they never learn to think independently, because of their “gadgets”, and self driving cars is just an extension of the hand held crap. I even like to shift my own gears. Now heres a heads up for you, you quit doing for your self, and you will wind up totally unable to do for yourself. Think about that for a bit.

  46. Yes, they have auto pilots on boats and airplanes. Just how many moose, people shooting a red, or blasting a stop sign, or signalling left and going right, construction signs, emergency vehicles, flag people, traffic lights, etc etc do you see in the sky or on the sea?
    But by all means let a computer program take care of these “quirks”, for you, and relax.
    Darwin Award material.

  47. I don’t look forward to filing my “driving plan” with the FAA … and WAIT for their approval. That’s what I think about airplane auto pilot.

  48. Not to worry … because ALL of your earthly concerns will be resolved when EVERYONE is being driven by the government. Nobody will blow thru stop signs when the auto czar is in charge. Lay back and enjoy the decline. Oh … by the way … white folks gonna arrive a little later than everyone else … time to PAY for all that privilege they enjoyed driving fast German autos. Yep … automotive affirative action.

  49. You are not being driven by the government. You a being driven by a robot. I can guarantee that a car driven by a robot will be safer than a car driven by a human, the same way a car built by a robot is better than a car built by a human. Is your concern the accident that that Tesla car was in recently? I would bet that even this early in the game self driving vehicles have a better safety record than ones driven by people. Humans are way more fallible than machines. Driving stopped being fun 30 years ago. If you are concerned about government control of your life I would worry about automated payment systems and banking before I worried about robotic cars. There will come a time when we can go and buy a robot to clean our house, cook our food cut the grass and be our chauffeur. Driving a car is just another task that we will get robots to do, to add to the long list of things they already do.

  50. Self driving cars will only work if all vehicles on the road are controlled by one software system, using similar sensors, so that every cars behavior is completely predictable by other car’s computers. And you don’t expect the government to abuse such a system? With full respect: Have you been asleep for the last 60 years?

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