Posted on 03/24/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Could there be anything less American than driverless cars? I suppose sexbots might quality but certainly driverless cars are right up there.
Why would you NOT want to drive this?
Seriously, driverless cars have no place in the land that practically invented the open road, hit-the-road-Jack-never-come-back motif. And Michael Walsh agrees:
these vehicles are emasculating, imprisoning, anti-American, and inhuman. And now, in the wake of the first fatal accident involving an autonomous vehicle, theyre deadly as well.
Whence comes this rush to robot cars? Did the public demand it? Or have our betters in the tech industry and in the bowels of the bureaucracy taken it upon themselves to correct our lamentable human failings and, in the name of safety, shove these vehicles down our throats?
He also touches on how the fear of terrorism has led to the trashing of the Fourth Amendment. Citing how were all subject to government overreach, unreasonable search and seizure at airports and legal snooping via your computer, phone (and bank records) he wonders why would you climb into a robocar and take yourself hostage on purpose? And notes that convenience is no reason to voluntarily surrender your personal autonomy to something that will, by definition, be subject to close governmental scrutiny and control.
All of which seems self-evident to anyone of a certain age. Not so for Millennials many of whom didnt even want to learn how to drive who have been conditioned by propaganda to embrace mass transportation, Ubers and Zipcars. Not only do they feel they are saving the planet by not owning their own means of transportation. And it allows them to forego yet another right of passage to adulthood: the assumption of responsibility for owning and operating a set of wheels to get them from where they are to where they think they want to go. Theyll never appreciate that joie de vivre kindled simply by listening to a road song written to celebrate freedom and mobility both euphemistically and literally. Pity, really.
The 1958 Impala, built to let you wee the USA in your Chevrolet
Heres just a partial list of my best Hit the Road songs, feel free to add your own:
The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe
Ronnie and the Daytonas Little GTO aka the The Wah Wah song
The Stills-Young Band Long May You Run
Janis Joplin Mercedes Benz
Wilson Pickett Mustang Sally
Willie Nelson On The Road Again
The Doors Riders on the Storm
Prince Little Red Corvette
Tracy Chapman Fast Car
Don Henley Boys of Summer
And of course the ultimate Motown car song, Aretha Franklins Freeway of Love (in her Pink Cadillac)
Mr. Walsh concludes his analysis of driverless cars with this:
But thats what the land of the free is rapidly becoming: a nation of passengers, without even enough gumption to be backseat drivers. Enjoy the ride.
They once said as GM goes, so goes the nation. I say no to gray, soul-less, driverless cars. I say lets make Motown great again and see how it works out for the rest of the country.
So lets hit the road, Jack (and Jackie).
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Maybe the most annoying of all time, though the Barney song comes close!
And yet, the Wrecking Crew considered it their masterpiece.
It may be poor, but it’s mine. :-) Either way, the person lacking in survival skills is not the primary cause of her own death.
But I’m not sure there is much difference between a mugger and this self-driving accident machine. This dangerous instrumentality appears to have been placed on the road with inadequate safety equipment and an unreliable “backup” driver. Testing could have been done on a safe test track. But the owner decided to wantonly and willfully subject the public to the discoverable dangers of its contraption. It may be less criminal than a mugging, but it should still be a crime in my view.
In the case of avoiding parking by having your car circle, surely you see that having several hundred or more all doing this would make our roads impassable congested.
This is why in san Francisco for example we are limited to a grand total of 2000 taxis. All cities limit the number of cars in this service for this reason (NOT to simple create a costly monopoly as is so often claimed)
Uber came in and our congestion has literally doubled. They are not limited and people use them instead of the bus and/or instead of driving no and parking.
“Turn the Page” works too.
More chances than not it will be something with some power, something he can control. It might be a truck, but it will have some oomph somewhere.
Anyone who would like to drive an "driverless" car is really just someone who would like a chauffeur.
Then provide free parking....
Well Im all for free parking. But theres no such thing as free, really. Land comes from somewhere, so do curbs and street cleaning and maintenance and all.
San Francisco you can barely find PAID parking. Super expensive here.
Theres no unlimited resource. Land costs.
Now if they could get cars to fold up into a briefcase, like on The Jetsons, then I’d be impressed.
No doubt.
Nevertheless, it’s not like cars with drivers necessarily do any better.
A girl on a cellphone slammed into the back of my son’s car full tilt. She never saw it.
Honestly, the argument that “humans mess up too” is as non-sequitur as the usualy liberal argument:
“But, Americans kill American people too! If we get rid of the illegal aliens we’ll still have killers!” - ipso facto don’t bother deporting illegals.
Poor argument.
All cars are deadly, or have the potential to be deadly.
Objecting to them because they are deadly doesn't make any sense when they are just as deadly with a clueless human operator.
after all, it isn't like human drivers never not see someone.
There are plenty of reasons to oppose them, but one accident is not even the best one.
Nope. Still a non-sequitur.
We should stop demanding that illegals go home, then.
That it would be pointless. I was being sarcastic.
linking this to "illegals go home" is not the same. The opposition to illegals is that they are in the USA illegally hence cannot fully participate and at the same time reduce the job market. The crime brought is a secondary effect and not the main reason to oppose illegal immigration.
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