Posted on 03/24/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
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 I’m all for free parking. But there’s 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.
There’s 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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