If it has computers, it can be hacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0SrxBC1xs
Just a matter of time before a Glooble driverless becomes a remote highway missile.
Surely that’s a problem government can solve. Ban all human drivers beginning 2020. Think of all the jobs in the auto industry’s hat will be created if everybody has to go buy a new car. BONUS: Union dues soar. Democrat campaign contributions soar. More dems elected to pass more regulations. Utopia!
Stick one of ‘em in Philadelphia & see how long it lasts — probably about the same as the robot hitchhiker.
“The City That Booed Santa Claus”
No, the real problem is the government has passed too many laws and tried to too strictly control driver behavior. The result is universal violations of overly restrictive laws (think speed limits for example). So now autonomous car-makers will have to decide whether to mesh with the real world or with government dictate, and prepare for the lawsuits when they do the latter and people get hurt.
I’m sure Google’s answer to the problem will be to lobby the government to ban private ownership of automobiles. And the totalitarians in our federal government will be only too happy to oblige by getting the ball rolling towards just such a ban.
I am not trusting my life to the machinations of a robo car.
Jeb loves driverless cars.
Any experienced driver saw this one coming.
Makes me appreciate driving a sports car so much more.
Someday the grandkids will say “you drove that fast on this twisty road BY HAND??”
If these driverless cars are not programmed to violate the law on occasion in reaction to dangerous situations then they will be the real cause, if not the legal cause of many accidents. Insurance costs will ultimately reflect that.
So the software will stop the vehicle for a human in a cross walk...regardless of the status of the traffic light? Stop for a jaywalker when the car has the green light? Yah...makes perfect sense.