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I am so torn on this. Traffic jams would get reduced, less drunk drivers, overall much safer, and we could get places faster.

But fuck you robot. I dont trust my wife driving who has never been in an accident or gotten a ticket, why should I trust you.
 
I am so torn on this. Traffic jams would get reduced, less drunk drivers, overall much safer, and we could get places faster.

But fuck you robot. I dont trust my wife driving who has never been in an accident or gotten a ticket, why should I trust you.

Would you rather the other cars on the road be drive by unpredictable people who get fatigued or by well trained neural nets that constantly monitor everything happening in every direction at once? How often do you drive past someone who is looking at their phone while driving. I see it all of the time.

And you trust it when there are hundreds of millions of miles of data proving safety.

My car, not a Tesla, has driver assistance. Keeps the car in the lane, adjusts speed to traffic, including stop and go traffic. And on the highways it will check traffic and change lanes for you when you put blinker on. Also monitors when you drive and stops you from drifting out of the lane, alerts you if you try to change lanes and there is a vehicle there. It requires well marked roads and can’t handle it if there isn’t a line on the right side of the road like happens on so many roads.

Tesla has gone far beyond what my car can do, and is accelerating their rate of improvement.
 
Would you rather the other cars on the road be drive by unpredictable people who get fatigued or by well trained neural nets that constantly monitor everything happening in every direction at once? How often do you drive past someone who is looking at their phone while driving. I see it all of the time.

And you trust it when there are hundreds of millions of miles of data proving safety.

My car, not a Tesla, has driver assistance. Keeps the car in the lane, adjusts speed to traffic, including stop and go traffic. And on the highways it will check traffic and change lanes for you when you put blinker on. Also monitors when you drive and stops you from drifting out of the lane, alerts you if you try to change lanes and there is a vehicle there. It requires well marked roads and can’t handle it if there isn’t a line on the right side of the road like happens on so many roads.

Tesla has gone far beyond what my car can do, and is accelerating their rate of improvement.

Blue screen of death.

Networks crash all the time. 5G is not going to be installed on every road. Weather will hamper AI. Coders are not perfect.

I'm not worried about it though. It will be impossible to outlaw human drivers because nobody's telling Bubba in South Alabama that he can't drive his F150 truck.

Driver assistance is popular and I'm glad I have it. Driverless cars - no.
 
Blue screen of death.

Networks crash all the time. 5G is not going to be installed on every road. Weather will hamper AI. Coders are not perfect.

I'm not worried about it though. It will be impossible to outlaw human drivers because nobody's telling Bubba in South Alabama that he can't drive his F150 truck.

Driver assistance is popular and I'm glad I have it. Driverless cars - no.

I can guarantee that the computer won't be running windows. Also, there are redundant computers on board so if one fails the car won't crash.

And eventually all cars will be electric self driving cars because of the provable overwhelming safety advantages and because of the global warming issues caused by gas powered cars.
 
One of my best friends is a test driver for one of the programs so I know allot about this. They are close, but still years away.

The first self driving cars will be like taxi's on pre-determined routes, but even that is a few years away. Its a very competitive industry with many companies trying to be the first and they don't all use the exact same technology.

It will be an interesting race.
 
One of my best friends is a test driver for one of the programs so I know allot about this. They are close, but still years away.

The first self driving cars will be like taxi's on pre-determined routes, but even that is a few years away. Its a very competitive industry with many companies trying to be the first and they don't all use the exact same technology.

It will be an interesting race.

They will all rely on infrastructure that absolutely stinks.

It's going to be incredibly difficult to get sufficient 5G coverage across the country. More to the point - the public is very receptive to driver assistance but self-driving cars face considerable opposition.

The tech bros just assume an all-powerful Federal Government will outlaw driving by people because that fits their technocratic worldview. Not happening.
 
They will all rely on infrastructure that absolutely stinks.

It's going to be incredibly difficult to get sufficient 5G coverage across the country. More to the point - the public is very receptive to driver assistance but self-driving cars face considerable opposition.

The tech bros just assume an all-powerful Federal Government will outlaw driving by people because that fits their technocratic worldview. Not happening.

They aren't assuming driving by people will be outlawed at all, its just another way to get from point a to z, but they are factoring the human error for sure.
 
One of my best friends is a test driver for one of the programs so I know allot about this. They are close, but still years away

Test driver for a driverless car?

That's like the movie "One on One" where the protagonist (Robbie Benson) is a scholarship BB player at a big school and gets a job turning on the sprinklers for the football field.

They're all on automatic timers.
 
It will be interesting to see how the government and lobby groups will shape the laws around driverless cars.

I could see it being implemented into Semi trucks first. Where the driver can leave the seat on the highway and rest basically allowing semi trucks to run as much as possible. I could see electronics being added to the highway to help the trucks in bad weather conditions.

I also bet a whole host of mandatory sensors and regulation will be added to trucks to keep them well maintained and safe. Probably closer to how commerical planes are inspected.

I could then see it be in taxis. Uber and Lyft will probably have fleets of driverless cars. Then this is where lobbying groups will shape DUI laws and having a license driver in the car to create a barrier to entry. I doubt people will be able to drive their car out to the club and have the car drive them back. Or drive their car to a location then have it drive back home or around till they are ready to be picked up. Or pick up their kids from school without them having to go.
 
They will all rely on infrastructure that absolutely stinks.

It's going to be incredibly difficult to get sufficient 5G coverage across the country. More to the point - the public is very receptive to driver assistance but self-driving cars face considerable opposition.

The tech bros just assume an all-powerful Federal Government will outlaw driving by people because that fits their technocratic worldview. Not happening.

Without getting into politics, in a positive note, the evolution of self-driving cars may be an excuse for the government to finally do something about fixing the infrastructure in this country.
 
Test driver for a driverless car?

That's like the movie "One on One" where the protagonist (Robbie Benson) is a scholarship BB player at a big school and gets a job turning on the sprinklers for the football field.

They're all on automatic timers.

They fail all the time, that's like if the lawn crew makes sure they turn on because they fail every day, lol
 

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