Driverless Cars Far More Likely To Get Into Crashes, Study Finds

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 10/29/2015 | John Merline

[IBD editorial writer]

As interest in self-driving cars accelerates, so have questions about their safety and reliability. The idea is that self-driving cars will be safer because they will make far fewer mistakes. But can people trust computer algorithms to guide them safely through incredibly complex and ever-changing road conditions?

[9YearLurker]

And once hackers get a hold of them?

[napscoordinator]

Idiots. Of course they will until they are perfected. The cars of yesteryears were death traps and now they are pretty darn safe for the most part. These authors are so dumb.

[jsanders2001]

You can bet the current administation has already commissioned a team to study how driverless vehicles can be used to assissinate political opponents. Unofficially of course.

[YourAdHere]

So are fatherless kids.

[petercooper]

A driverless car can’t be worse than 1/2 the morons out there.

[Graybeard58]

Another short excerpt from F.R.’s resident I.B.D. pimp. Don’t bother to ask him a question, he won’t answer, he’s strictly post and run. Gotta get those hits ya know.

[Flick Lives]

As a result, they can't rule out "the possibility that the actual rates for self-driving vehicles are lower than for conventional vehicles." They also note that the severity of the crashes that involved driverless cars tended to be lower. The biggest difference that the research found, however, is fault. So far, driverless cars were to blame for zero of the crashes.

As usual, a misleading headline. So very typical of today's prostitute media.

[Jonty30]

Forget about hackers. I’m concerned that my Apple car will drive to Cupertino occasionally to join the hive.

[cripplecreek]

Over-reliance on technology has already created the world’s worst drivers.

[ilovesarah2012]

Is that supposed to be “unexpected”?

[Nervous Tick]

>> But can people trust computer algorithms to guide them safely through incredibly complex and ever-changing road conditions?

Aw HAIL no you can’t trust computer algorithms in this kind of task!

By the way, I’m a programmer. I KNOW. :-)

[Nervous Tick]

>> I’m concerned that my Apple car will drive to Cupertino occasionally to join the hive.

Or to your local “bath house”, if Tim Cook has his way. ;-)

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I do not understand this BS fascination with driverless vehicles. If you don’t want to drive, take the bus.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Safety? Comfort? Convenience? Productivity?

[Paladin2]

Well, some programmed probe missed Uranus and crashed into Mars some time back. Always check your units.

[PapaBear3625]

They keep talking about “driverless vehicles”, and it will remain BS for a number of years.

The best they will accomplish over the short term is an “advanced cruise control” which will keep you in your lane, and save you if you start to nod off.

[JRandomFreeper]

There is no bus coming from here to where I need to go.

And a free man takes the bus, or driverless car, whichever he wants. He doesn't listen to jerks telling him what to do.

At this point, with the cancers and my balance, I don't drive. Safer for everybody.

I could use a driverless car right about now.

Of course, it would have to work.

/johnny

[Paladin2]

I want a vehile that can circle the block rsther than me having to find and pay for a place to park it.

[bert]

on restricted access highways only