[C19fan]

I will believe when I see one of these navigate Midtown Manhattan between 9 am - 6 pm. Would people if they can work while commuting be willing to live even further away from their job? For us older ones the idea of giving up control will take adjustment.

[yldstrk]

I am driving a rental Ford “Escape” this week, it is a glorified golf cart.

[Yo-Yo]

Let’s see them navigate a snow covered street.

[Da Coyote]

It’s gonna be interesting for insurance companies.

As for me, I’m long past enjoying driving. Jeeves, take me to the store.

In Obamatalk, that’s Boehner, takes me to the sto’.

[Slyfox]

Will moms be able to put their kids in the car and wave to them as they drive off to school?

That should warm the cockles of every child molester.

[grobdriver]

Blah, blah, blah.

"It'll change everything"

[CivilWarBrewing]

Say goodbye to 8 MILLION+ ‘driver jobs’ in the U.S.A. Artificial Intelligence (AI) spells DOOM for the human race.

[cripplecreek]

I wouldn’t mind having the feature for long cross country trips but I want to turn it off for my regular driving. Even using it on the highway I would remain behind the wheel and alert for grabbing control.

[Mr. K]

I would LOVE to see this- I travel from Buffalo to Boston each week for work- the drive is a killer- but if I could fall asleep and wake when I arrive, I would never travel anywhere by plane again (les than 8 hours drive, at least)

[DBrow]

In the 50’s it was flying cars and robot lawnmowers. Wheel-shaped space stations and a lunar colony.

Self-driving cars are a dream of the Nanny State. No speeding, no risk taking, everything tracked and reported, coded in will be rules to alleviate Man-Caused Climate Change and the car won’t start if you have not paid all your taxes and maintained the proper weight.

[mountainlion]

So you get in and get identified and go where you want or go to jail or get hacked , kidnapped and ransomed. Not to mention the possibilities of getting lost, in a wreck...

[lowbridge]

And if someone wants you dead, all he has to do is hack into your car, take control, and floor it into a tree.

[nascarnation]

I heard one of the liberal pundits mention today that this will be mandated as the future standard because our current cars are too dangerous.

It seemed outlandish at first, but I wouldn’t rule out anything.

[skinndogNN]

The first time one of these things hits a 10 year old kid chasing after a ball, there’s going to be a backlash.

But I wander if it will cut down on DWI’s?

[goodnesswins]

Yeah...and the oceans will rise 10 feet...and the Feds will take care of you...etc. etc. Etc. Blah...blah...blah

[dainbramaged]

Meanwhile I was behind a “smart car” yesterday - those should come with a funeral wreath attached at the factory.

[isthisnickcool]

[Political Junkie Too]

Imagine ordering a pizza online, paying for it with a credit card, getting a receipt with a code on it, 30 minutes later a driverless car pulls up to your home and texts you, you open the door and enter your code into the locker and take out your hot pizza. Close the car door and it drives away to the next delivery or back to the shop.

You are a small business (say an auto repair shop) and you need a part from another business across town. They put the part in a driverless car and send it over to you. You send the car back.

You own a bar and you have a customer who is too drunk to drive. You put him into one of your driverless cars and send him home. The car returns to your bar on its own.

-PJ

[longfellow]

They will have to disengage the turn signal for the assholes in California.

[exPBRrat]

I’m calling BS on these self driving cars.

[Zeneta]

I will NEVER EVER give up my control of my car.

I love driving.

I love highways and city streets.

I love racing cabbies in Manhattan.

I love the freedom that seems to be uniquely American.

I love parallel parking my car in a space that everybody I’m with say’s “It can’t be done”, there’s not enough room.

As I prove them wrong, over and over again.