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Like I keep telling my wife: I’m not an aggressive driver – I’m just enthusiastically efficient!
Driverless cars will never happen on a large scale. We already have taxis, busses, subways and trains (And now Uber) doing that kind of “work” which is city centered …Citiots are more inclined for this kind of novelty, like say the Zeppelin destined battery powered car anyway.
Country folk will resist this nonsense which would be impractical for say trucks in off road duties for example.
Who would trust a computer relying on a bunch of sensors on highway 401 doing 100 Km during a downpour between big rigs all over the place?…Not me, no thanks.
It’s the driving part that’s fun, you progressive beta male morons. A driverless car just becomes a boring (Yet nerve racking) taxi experience without the “driver’s” bad accent and strange smell.
“Who would trust a computer”
The Left would. Voting machines anyone?
A Mohammedan sees a cell phone, smiles, and thinks, “Nice trigger for an IED!”
A Mohammedan sees a bot car, smiles, and thinks, “Nice platform for a cruise missile!”
I’ll trust the computer and the bunch of sensors on Highway 401 a lot more than I’ll trust the real driver of the “driverless” car. Which is the programmer, thousands of miles from the place, which he/she has never seen, and perhaps years before the real time in which the conditions and events on the road will occur, for which they will have written the instructions for the blindly obedient vehicle to follow.
And I wonder who is liable for the damage and harm done when it goes wrong? The owner of the vehicle? The occupants? They aren’t making the driving decisions. The maker and their programmer who weren’t there?
Every solution brings its own problems, usually unforeseen.
..humans will “bully” driverless cars..
Watch for another Charter-protected victim group.
Oh, you fools. Have you learned nothing from decades of progressive control of the levers of power?
The obvious solution to humans bullying driverless cars is just to not let humans drive at all.
One thing I’ll never get is a car controlled by a computer. I finally broke down and bought a “new” vehicle (a 1993 Grand Cherokee) and I like that the computers in it just do menial tasks like control fuel injection and give me a display of my instantaneous miles/gallon. It has no builtin surveillance devices. It wouldn’t survive an EMP though. Statists are salivating over the control that “driverless” cars will give them. A network of autonomous vehicles on a highway is a huge dynamic wireless mesh network in which vehicles talk to each other about where they’re going, pass along information like “I’m going to run out of gas in the next mile or so and will head to the shoulder” or “my left rear tire has blown – slow down and send slow down message to cars behind you”. Likely, all of this information will also be sucked up by the NSA and such vehicles would give the state instantaneous information about the location of any person in a vehicle. It would be a great way to bring in people who were wanted for a parking ticket, or the crime of being a “deplorable” – just reprogram the vehicle to bring them into the nearest police station as well as locking the doors and windows on the way there.
I like driving in the country but hate driving in cities so I solve that problem by avoiding cities. Having close to 50 years experience with programming, I’d only take a ride in a driverless car after all the bugs had been worked out and I would never get into one where there was no manual over-ride option.
Exactly. The Nannys and Greens will use the stats on driverless cars to make them compulsory and very expensive to get as many people off the roads as possible. Public transportation is an article of faith to these fascists and what better way to fill up those cattle cars than by legislating it.
You’d be screwed in Quebec with a driverless car, you would never move if it let aggressive lane cutters take your space….
Hmmmm. Makes my Spiderman spidey senses tingle.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Handheld-EMP-device/
To be kept in mind always…. there is no solid guarantee that a driverless car will take you where you want to go.
The mere presence of “self-driving” cars is bullying ME. And of course, the “erratic” nature of human drivers will be the excuse used to ELIMINATE them from the Federal Highways. The Feds will BAN all human-driven vehicles … in the interest of “safety” … of course. Gotta keep the chilLLLL-dren safe. Then, the Feds will withhold all Federal Hwy funds from any state that did not comply on their State Roads and Highways. And then, the Feds would declare eminent domain over ALL public roads in America. Then the president will declare … “If you like your car, you can keep your car” … right before the Green Police show up to impound your renegade human-operated automobile. Goodbye personal freedom … goodbye.
One thing I’ve learned from driving in Toronto – there is no word in Cantonese for “merge”.
Lawyers will do well in the era of driver-less cars. They will do well from drones decapitating children too.
@ Loki: “A network of autonomous vehicles on a highway is a huge dynamic wireless mesh network in which vehicles talk to each other about where they’re going, pass along information….”
Absolutely correct. Consequently, “bullying” will not happen. The current crop of driverless cars is just preliminary experimentation. Don’t take too much from what’s going on now. Driverless cars WILL happen, at least in the metropolitan areas. Give it about 20 years.
They don’t have one for “yield” either. That’s why gov has been using excessive STOP signs everywhere.
I wonder if a similar repartee took place amongst the drivers of horse carriages when the horseless carriages first appeared.
Don’t just be A Passenger. Be THE PASSENGER.
Now, where can I get some more of those to deal with the howling protestors and their MSM cheerleaders?
“One thing I’ve learned from driving in Toronto – there is no word in Cantonese for “merge”.”
Sure there is. It is “F-250.” I merge with style and grace, and never a horn honked or a bird flipped.
Even a blind Toronto driver knows enough not to screw with a truck that’s three times bigger than his Honda. Challenging to park, perhaps. But what is life without the odd challenge?
The first step was the Prius, and now robo cars. It is a great pleasure to menace morons in their smug-mobiles with my big, high powered American vehicles (well, one is actually made up there the MKX but the other is made in Bowling Green). It will be even more satisfying to buzz robo imports.