How is a driverless vehicle gowing to shovel itself out and throw some sand down to get going?
Well, there we have it! An inanimate object(without human operator) has killed one more person than ANY inanimate gun(without user) ever has! Is it the car’s fault? Will this result in a ban on all driverless cars? These vehicles have the ability to do what guns cannot-kill without a human using them.
I like to start stopping WAY before the slippery condition so by the time I get there, I've already slowed down and have control.
Not if these “self driving cars” are limited to being operated in Liberal enclaves. Then they can be seen as performing a necessary community service.
I’m involved in self-driving technology tangentially in my profession, so I could write about this for hours. For now I’ll just say this ... when you account for the limits of the technology, the cost, and the difficulties of implementing it, you find that self-driving cars are a “solution” looking for a problem to solve.
Bit human drivers kill tens of thousands of people on the highways every year...
surprising that driverless cars are getting so little support at FR. go to any public place and look around, folks. could a computer really do a worse job than the vast majority of the people you see around you? no, I thought not.
the faster we are 100% driverless, the better off we will all be; I just hope it happens before we reach full “idiocracy” levels.
Nobody saw this coming, nope no one, uh huh.
What is a driverless vehicle going to do during periods of lost GPS signal, i.e., solar flare activity?
Seems like this robot broke the cardinal rule:
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Isaac Asimov’s 1st rule of robotics.
They were dangerous before this death. It’s just that most people, excluding me, didn’t want to think they were.
You mean to tell me that a 4 thousand pound metal and plastic vehicle is moving at speeds up to 70 mph and is controlled by a video camera and a gps connected to a computer program?
Anyone who would set up something like this is criminally responsible for any ensuing deaths.
But no one will listen. This death will be explained away as a “glitch,” and development will continue. They will just need to “tweak” the program a bit, and everything will be OK.
Answer. Yes.
“There are times when we have difficulty controlling a car in those conditions (our weather forecast is for 6 inches of snow later today and tonight).”
I suspect that the “self-driving vehicle” will say “I’m not going out in this,” which is what the idiots we see on the news sliding into each other on the icy roadways. My new car actually tells me when the road is likely to be frozen with a warning.
The systems for self-driving cars will become as frequently hacked as our “connected” companies are. And the hackers WILL connect up with those who create computer viruses. Then they’ll pick a target “driverless” system and its information network, wait for a terribly busy day on an urban stretch of some Interstate, and launch - taking mayhem control of thousands of cars simultaneously & shutting out the operators from control of the vehicles. Hundred-car multicar accidents on the same stretch of road at the same time.
The insurance companies will scream - “shut em down”.
I am only familiar with the global warming in the Arizona desert and rural Florida, where I have homes.
Don't see no uber driverless vehicles out here in the country.
Do they have them in 65 hp diesel tractors?
Uber wants to know. Funny you happen to mention one of their test cities. I’m concerned that once the technology is in place, driving your OWN car will be illegal or made prohibitively expensive. But their driverless cars are probably WAY safer than the other idiots you share the road with.
Driverless vehicles can certainly be programmed to avoid driving on unsafe surfaces....even if they have to stop moving at all. The issue then is how they can find and move to a safe holding area.
I stand by my prediction that self-driving vehicles
will not survive First Contact with the American Tort Bar.