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

  1. When you see a car move like that you expect to see an old woman in the driver’s seat with her chin three inches from the top of the steering wheel.

  2. ha ha !!!
    looks like the malicious rich techno geek has begun road tests.
    (see my previous post about this happening solely as a prank for the sake of youtube hits)

  3. There was an old lady last night who took two minutes getting her Sienna out of a parking spot at a Sobey’s that looked safer than that thing. Incidentally isn’t operating a motor vehicle without a qualified driver behind the wheel in full control against traffic code? I mean if people can get dinged $350 for making a left turn on a late yellow while trying not to get crushed by heavy truck traffic what should the fine for wilfully operating an unoccupied car in public where others could have been placed in harm’s way? Methinks too much pressure is being applied to make society adopt autonomous machines. When something bad happens there needs to be much bigger consequences than a hidden headline on page 6.

    1. Martin, I have over six millions miles, not kms, under my belt. I will not now or ever trust any thing that takes control from a driver on the highway. I was in NS last month and my bro in law showed me just how well his new suv braked while following a car leaving the highway. The car leaving braked hard, so did his car all by itself. My first thought was not isn’t that great but what the hell would have happened on an ice covered road. There really is no where to go here. Die if you must, just don’t take me with you.

      1. Don’t get me started on how much I loathe ABS braking … sorry … I’m much better at it than the chip in my dashboard. And I don’t have anywhere near 6M miles

        Our culture has started to pander to the least common denominator. Pander to people who are incompetent drivers, or incompetent students, or just all-round incompetent emotionally fragile losers. I’m not “harsh” by nature … calling people phaggs and losers … until the pendulum swings wayyyyyy out of equilibrium.

        1. I hear ya, Kenji.

          I drive a 20 yr old 5 spd Accord coupe and I can’t bare to part with it because I don’t believe I can match the driving experience with a new vehicle. I would much prefer a rear-wheel drive, but the gearing and suspension of this car make it a rather remarkable performer and a freaking blast on our scenic and winding South Okanagan roads.

          As with you, I had never liked ABS because I had threshold braking down so pat. I must admit though, in a couple of very icy winter situations, I have been happy to rely on it.

          And if they really want to save lives, they should refuse driver’s licences to people with no or even low driving skills.

          2. CO, refuse licences to poor drivers, that would be about 90% of those who have them now, just today driving along 401, some raghead in a tractor trailer changed lanes as I was beside the prick. If I was like those 90% I would have been toast

        2. spot on kenji.
          the enormous herd of elephants in the room is the fact reliance on technology to ‘take up the slack’ or ‘intervene when things go south’, over time fosters an unhealthy *default reliance on technology* which in my view winds up inducing people to push the envelope, even when they aren’t even fully aware of it.
          dangerous mindset.
          spot on sir.
          today’s skill testing Q: when will there be a court case of S/W vendor A suing S/W vendor B and the countersuit as to ‘whose technology was ultimately responsible for this huge chain reaction collision’ or such.

  4. Ha! Somewhere in North America, product liability law firms are licking their chops and just biding their time.

  5. Is that not great. Hi tech wandering around a parking lot. I wonder how well this will work in a Feb blizzard and who would be the fool to summon the car? keep your heads up or down, which ever you prefer. One of those positions will kill you.

    1. Since pensioners are receiving pensions that are a financial liability for the federal government. This especially so, where those programs are not actuarily sound), and secondly people use 80 percent of gov’t. funded health care expense in their last 4 years of life.

      Those wanting to keep their seats of power, higher paying government wages and benefits going for as long as they can.
      The public servant(or is that master) class will have to resist a big temptation, one to order(on the quiet), programed driverless autos to assist in “balancing” government budgets. This after decades of running deficits and unmanageable debt financing, and driving the economy into a (not on the official map) cul de sac.

      Of course, the above is merely a plot in a science fiction movie.

      What is that old proverb now never repeated in MSM and government circles ? Oh yeah, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”(Lord Acton)

  7. I read a follow-up story on this last night and ICBC, BC’s socialist car insurance racket, claimed they were looking into the possibility this summoning maneuver is not even covered by a Tesla owner’s ICBC policy. That alone would make this feature illegal to use in public areas here.

    Despite people’s reactions to seeing this, a car driving in the wrong lane with no driver’s head visible above the wheel is actually a pretty common site throughout the Vancouver area, especially in Chinese-annexed Richmond. With my many years of experience dodging these people on Vancouver streets, I can tell you without much of a doubt that if the Tesla shown here was owned by a Chinese woman, you are safer trusting Musk’s technology. 🙂

  8. I’m bullish on self-driving cars, but they are still in the early beta phase and the technology should not be operating outside a closed test track at this time.

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