Posted on 05/12/2016 7:44:40 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
I now Understand...
What’s so enticing about the (just-around-the corner) self-driving cars?
In view of my slightly advanced age, I may be forgiven to be a bit slow in learning—but now I understand: It’s all about what happens in the back seat!
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I’m more interested in being able to get home from the pub legally and safely.
What could possibly go wrong?
My first thought about driverless cars was that I could take a nap on the way to work.
I must be old.
The best part you can get ate in the front seat.
I would love it for my parents. My mom isn’t medically allowed to drive, but she’s only in her 60s.
However, there’s still just too many things about it that rubs me the wrong way.
Sometimes, I would go home late enough to actually get a seat and, by some miracle, always managed to wake up just before my stop. Except once.
I feel sooooooo bad for wanting that!
“We hope you enjoyed the ride.”
No they won’t. Pure paranoid rubbish.
So...you’re in the back seat at eighty miles per hour with your honey doing the beast with two backs when the chip in the control module goes KABLOOIE, followed by CRASH!!!
The EMTs try for hours to disentangle the crumpled mass of limbs & flesh then finally give up & order a double wide casket.
And don’t forget your twosome’s final moments have been immortalized in the NSA superserver. Or maybe it was no `accident’.
Impressed, comrade?
Rest assured... You will still be required to be sober.
There would (will) be a law that a person must remain sober in the event that manual take over of the car may be required in the (unlikely) event of auto-malfunction.
And yes, it will be all about more population control. Imagine the crossover period.. You will have a bunch of auto-cars clogging up rush hour making it horrendously worse because... well.. the cars will be required to strictly obey the speed limit, and will needlessly (and early) apply brakes when simple “foot off accelerator” would suffice.
I am NOT wanting these things at all.
Can’t wait.
Dislike driving and have yet to observe a human, other than a full time professional, who should be trusted with a few thousand pounds of metal moving at 65 mph (anyone who couldn’t also do a carrier landing at night is not anyone I want driving within a few miles of me). Maybe it’s where I live, but most people can’t even PARK well, almost none can merge smoothly and the number of morons who don’t even use turn signals (something that should result in immediate removal of all driving privileges) is more than half.
Personally, I’d allow humans to drive, but only after *rigorous* yearly testing and vehicle inspections. Maybe 1 out 100 should be doing so, at most.
Maybe somewhere else you can find people that know how to drive, here in California, nope.
The van? Or the girl?
At least they would have died doing what they loved...
Ha!
Soon as I posted, I asked myself that too!
I’m with you on all of that. I don’t actually see it happening.
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