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1 posted on 06/11/2017 7:06:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I’m guessing that these driverless cars won’t be able to see the Hi Vis jacket I wear when I’m riding my bike? Gee that makes me feel secure.

Just another example of the government thinking it can speed up technological development by executive or legislative fiat.


58 posted on 06/11/2017 8:19:51 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there")
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Conservatives are weird.

they’ll say, “liberalism is about feelings and conservativism is about logic...”

but then you ask them about robot cars and they say:

“the whole idea makes me feel creepy...I completely oppose it..”

that’s totally stupid.

I remember the same pattern when ATMs first came out, just look at how people adjusted to them.

I vastly prefer working with an ATM, which is basically a robot bank teller.


68 posted on 06/11/2017 9:06:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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One early morning driving I saw a Mercedes driveless car going down PCH I noticed all the cars in front of me doing their best to get away from this car. When I passed the car there was some geek and some blonde in the car. Big letters on the the side of the car "Mercedes Driveless Car"(something like that). Guy in the driver seat waving his hands talking to the passenger - I quickly got away.

Two months and we've got a new killer on the streets good to know - I'm skeptical but okay, I doubt it lasts it seems like the algorithms are predatory. And lawyers will love them.

I've been building robots and hooking them up to AI (ROS to Tensorflow) - self driving cars just seems like such a bad idea. Everyone talks about Artifical Intelligence - I'm worried more about Real Stupidity.

I hope I'm very wrong because it could make many lives better.

74 posted on 06/11/2017 9:21:25 PM PDT by datricker (Build the wall. If you build it, they won't come - Field of Dreamers)
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I’ve seen plenty of brainless drivers in cars lately.


82 posted on 06/11/2017 10:31:48 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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I just spent the better part of 2 months traveling - there are already a lot of “driverless” cars on the road.....hope the automated ones do better....


85 posted on 06/12/2017 3:56:34 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Beta test 2 to see if they don’t kill anyone.


88 posted on 06/12/2017 4:24:27 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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I'd like to see one of these cars drive on the ice and snow.
93 posted on 06/12/2017 4:49:29 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Government can make you feel so small and mean.-John Steinbeck)
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If this catches on, will there be anyone that will still have the skill to drive in a generation? Will autonomous cars have restricted destinations? Will they limit the amount of miles you can travel? What other hidden surprises are waiting?

All of these autonomous cars are being developed by people or organizations that think they can run your life better than you. They are often climate change cultists to boot. I always wonder the true motivation to develop these cars given their other beliefs.


102 posted on 06/12/2017 6:34:15 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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Dang me, and I always thought the world is overpopulated and there is no shortage of human drivers. Heck, in neighboring Oregon, no one can pump their own gas. There are human attendants at every gas station. The idea is to preserve gas attendant jobs. But now I worry about Uber drivers, taxi drivers & Lyft drivers. Their jobs are about to be eliminated.

But don’t worry, jobs for driverless car computer programmers, technicians, accident investigators, lawyers filing suits for driverless cars accidents, car body repair shops, etc will expand nicely.


103 posted on 06/12/2017 8:07:14 AM PDT by entropy12 (Read my profile for how to really reduce healthcare costs & improve quality.)
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Reasons to refuse a self-driving car:
* Take the liberal bully mobs blocking traffic as “protest”, sometimes assaulting those inside if of the wrong race or ideology. A self-driving car likely won’t let you go forward, even if for your own safety, and these are the people who will exploit such for personal pleasure.
* Criminal gangs in Mexico and further south create false road blocks to rob people they stop. Self driving cars can’t cope with this.
* Driver is the biggest job category in many states, and we don’t have any good plan for helping the working class already displaced by competition with immigrants and automation. Let’s delay the new technology before creating more people reliant on welfare and dispossessed.


109 posted on 06/12/2017 9:29:19 AM PDT by tbw2
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