If it doesn’t speed up when you try to pass it, I’m ok with it!
Arizona is already there.
Washington State is just playing catch-up.
Are they as dangerous as cars with marijuana drivers?
There will be accidents, claims and lawsuits like we've never seen before in this country. Our courts will become hopelessly clogged.....and the country's lawyers will become hopelessly rich.
Leni
People like me who think this is decades from viability may be considered part of 'the problem'.
I'll anxiously await for their final solution.
Bfl
Sorry, but I will not be getting into a “driverless” car, period.
Talk about distracted drivers.
Who’s at blame in a traffic incident?
Shit!!!!
Lawsuits waiting to happen. Lawyers warming up in the bullpen; operators standing by, waiting to take your call...
What could possibly go wrong?
Does this mean that if I buy a driverless car, I can now sit in the back seat and read a novel? I’d finally have my own personal invisible chauffeur? WOW!
There are so many issues that make this a utopian futurama fantasy.
- detecting road edges in low light, poor marking conditions
- navigating in snow, ice or heavy storm conditions (road edges again)
- finding parking spaces in cities or shopping areas.
- hazard avoidance (blown tires on your car, another one, or a semi)
- general car failure issue handling
- last second decisions (”oh, I want this rest area!”)
- numerous more scenarios I’m not gonna list
(One way to resolve the lane issue is to embed detectable markers in the road... that is, EVERY road... that cars could detect at speed (even if covered by ice) for lane alignment. You can imagine the cost/extent of this effort.)
This truly only works as an all-or-none system...and if the same software is used universally so that vehicles can (a) communicate intentions to one another, (b) react in predictable ways to the same road situations, (c) manage high traffic situations.
But the idea that everyone would yield control to make this happen is absurd... unless you force it on the population (I could see this happening in Europe).
True driverless cars and especially large trucks will have to have centralized control and tracking systems. Which means they’ll be vulnerable to hacking and the fun will begin. The hackers and thieves and hijackers will be hard at work developing ways to defeat the systems and usher in a new form of auto thievery and general theft.
The general idea might prove viable, but there will be many problems to be overcome.
This is such a bad idea.
Get a self-driving car. Someday, the windows will roll up and the doors will lock. You will be driven, safe and sound, to a prison or FEMA camp.
If a police cruiser lights up one, will it pull over or will we have the first autonomous police chase?
If they can be hacked? London bridge x 1000.