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

  1. With all the different kinds of headlights out there (ages up to 100+ years, incandescent, halogen, etc.) and the innumerable configurations of roads, it would seem that there’s a good chance a “yellow traffic light sensor” could interpret an oncoming headlight as a yellow traffic signal. That would be inconvenient….

  2. From T.S. Eliot:

    I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
    Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
    It may be Prester John’s balloon
    Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
    To light poor travellers to their distress.”
    She then: “How you digress!”

  3. Anyone who lets a computer drive their automobile deserves whatever wreck they cause themselves. And if their erratic driving computer harms my car or loved ones? Well, their OEM better have deep pockets … cause I’m comin after em. With a Dream Team of ambulance chasing lawfirms

    1. Considering who I see behind the wheel in many of the vehicles I see here in the city, I’d say that driverless cars have been around for many years.

  4. The concept is itself interesting.
    Why a self driving car?
    Is it an acknowledgement by the buyer,that they lack the skill set to safely pilot a land vehicle?
    That they are so inept,they believe they will never develop driving skills to the level where driving is a pleasure?
    Or that they have no skills,so have never learnt the pleasure of developing ones skills to the edge of the tools abilities?
    Or that they ,the potential buyer of a Self driving car,believe they are so special,they will never need such skills,so learning them is beneath their dignity?
    Fox with out of reach grape syndrome?

    For as this experiment has progressed.the assumptions of the promoters have been revealed..Self driving cars are being pushed onto the public,by persons who cannot drive,probably do not drive and certainly cannot imagine that some of us like to drive..
    Self driving vehicles brought to you by unskilled persons are us.
    Maybe mastering a Wet lab is so onerous that learning any useful skills are “Just Impossible”?

  5. If you’re down with plating, gps, etc, then you have already consented to wearing a bar code on yer neck, and I don’t see why you have issues with self-driving cars.

  6. In the long run, self driving cars will bring auto insurance down — according to Warren Buffett, who owns Geico Insurance.

    Almost 94% of accidents on US roads occur due to human error. DoT/NHTSA

    Robots performing surgery do a better job than surgeons; think Intuitive Surgical.

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