Is that something like a "safety pilot"?
Posted on 06/22/2018 7:53:17 AM PDT by texas booster
This week my wife and I saw a rectum driving a car with a dog in her lap while using a cell phone.
We guessed that she was steering with her left hand on the lower part of the steering wheel or her dog was steering, as her phone was in her right hand.
If it was her dog, it was not doing a very good job.
My wife said that the dog was probably the driver’s service dog as she was on the way to the local grocery store.
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner."
- H.L. Mencken
End Game: The owner will have to assume all liability for a car they may not even be driving! Would you assume that liability? No insurance company or manufacturer will I guarantee!
LOL!!!! I remember that short film!
It’s a test. That’s why it has a safety driver.
Eventually they will be fully autonomous.
And probably safer then cars driven by drunks. the impaired, the distracted and idiots.
You don’t get it. There was no pre-impact skids, no braking prior to impact, where there was plenty of time to brake.
They pretty much murdered that guinea pig.
Auto insurance policies will not cover a self-driving car. Most states probably don't even have a legal standard for these cars, so any crashes will likely be treated as product liability claims instead of auto accidents. The legal community is keeping a very close eye on the Uber case for this very reason.
Once you get into the product liability realm, all bets are off. No manufacturer will ever allow one of these cars on the road if they have that kind of legal exposure.
And that's why if people are victims of one of these vehicles they need to file lawsuits against the cities, counties and state governments for allowing people to be used as their guinea pigs, as well as filing against these big companies. I don't know how in hell they have gotten away with this.
Rule of thumb on a bike
NEVER WALK IT
ALWAYS BE THE AGRESSOR
thrn you’ll never get hit by a car
Also MOUNTAIN BIKES not ROAD BIKES
BIG TIRES AND SHOCKS TO RUN STUFF OVER
“ALWAYS BE THE AGRESSOR”
Yeah, that’s the ticket, be like the “Critical Mass” A$$holes on bikes in San Francisco who do everything in their power to f*ck up commute traffic. Time to start running over all of them if they get in the way of decent people just trying to get home.
Our dog is definitely better at chasing cars than driving them! ;-)
Actually, she was visible for about 5 seconds to the driver of the Ubermobile, if that driver had actually been doing “her” job. It makes no difference if she was homeless or not. The accident happened on a Sunday evening, around 9 PM IIRC, so it wasn’t a heavy traffic situation.
Any alert driver could have avoided hitting the woman.
Is that something like a "safety pilot"?
But it won't be long before watching Hulu while driving gives way to full mile high (yard high?) activities.
Then our kids will complain about the good ole days.
That is much like when some drivers have four wheel drive or all wheel drive they think they are invincible. I’ve seen it up north. And then they hit a patch of ice. Off the road and they go.
“Our dog is definitely better at chasing cars than driving them! ;-)”
Also, they are easily distracted by cats, other dogs and other cars!
wrong.
I suspect they will be all over the place within 10 years
The issue in this case was only partially the driver’s fault. She MIGHT HAVE been able to avoid it.
But who expects a homeless person to be walking a bike across a 4 lane highway in the dark, in front of oncoming traffic.
I hit a deer full head on at 65 mph on the thruway- there was no way on earth I could avoid it, and I was 100% paying attention to the road. If I had tried to swerve I would probably have tipped the car over.
She WAS supposed to be paying attention, that is her only mistake.
Are they certain this was not suicide?
If you look at the video there is literally no other cars in sight. Why did this person walk a bike in front of the only car on the highway?
Even with decades of safety in other industrial sites there are still fatal accidents.
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