Posted on 12/21/2014 10:53:10 AM PST by PROCON
It might give purchase for a crowbar, too, in order to pry it from a trucks wheel well.
Not very likely as by then they will have forgotten where they were going...
Oh they'll never return,
yes they'll never return,
for their fate is still unknown,
they may ride forever on the streets of Boston,
their fate sealed until the fuel runs dry...
Regards,
GtG
Unless networked, much of the potential safety and efficiency benefits will be lost.
But it’s not impossible to imagine a hacker taking control of the system and deciding to play continent-wide bumper cars.
They are not “driverless.” There must be a live driver at the wheel, ready to take over when the piece of metal can’t handle the situation. This is the most colossally stupid idea ever to be invented.
Right now that's true since the cars are still experimental.
Google's goal is to eventually build fully driverless cars.
Well, it's at least the stupidest idea since "Obama for president."
Forbes Demonstrates “Car Hacking” the Michael Hastings Murder Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CpPAjVh3dM
Michael Hastings Car Hacked and Remotely Driven into a Tree to Murder Him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQrHnP9lXIU
Car Hacking - Remote Control Murder of Michael Hastings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiD-x07iUGU
How Hackable Is Your Car? Consult This Handy Chart
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/car-hacking-chart/
The 20 most hackable CARS revealed: Report lists the smart vehicles that are most at risk of having their systems hijacked
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2719866/The-20-hackable-CARS-revealed-Report-lists-smart-vehicles-risk-having-systems-hijacked.html
Yabut the power is very low, nothing to see here, move along......
I've been driving longer and likely farther than driverless cars and I've been in a "few" accidents too....but that's over almost 40 years.
The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.
- Advice from a president of the Michigan Savings Bank to Henry Ford's lawyer Horace Rackham. Rackham ignored the advice and invested $5000 in Ford stock, selling it later for $12.5 million.
A new source of power... called gasoline has been produced by a Boston engineer. Instead of burning the fuel under a boiler, it is exploded inside the cylinder of an engine.
The dangers are obvious. Stores of gasoline in the hands of people interested primarily in profit would constitute a fire and explosive hazard of the first rank. Horseless carriages propelled by gasoline might attain speeds of 14 or even 20 miles per hour. The menace to our people of vehicles of this type hurtling through our streets and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere would call for prompt legislative action even if the military and economic implications were not so overwhelming... [T]he cost of producing [gasoline] is far beyond the financial capacity of private industry... In addition the development of this new power may displace the use of horses, which would wreck our agriculture.
- U. S. Congressional Record, 1875
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