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Driverless cars expected to go mainstream by 2025
BGR ^ | 4/19/13 | Dan Graziano

Posted on 04/20/2013 2:07:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: dead

Can you explain the privacy concerns?


21 posted on 04/20/2013 2:21:12 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: LibWhacker

I’m still waiting moving sidewalks at train stations where trains wouldn’t have to slow down to get on or off.


22 posted on 04/20/2013 2:22:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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Where is my flying car? Where is my electric car that goes 300 miles on a charge?

We already have driverless cars any way. Half the time stoners arent really there upstairs as things are now.


23 posted on 04/20/2013 2:22:10 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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24 posted on 04/20/2013 2:22:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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The DUI “Driving Under the Influence” industrial complex (lawyers, cops, judges and politicians) will covertly do everything in its power to make sure this is delayed or stopped for as long as possible. There is just to much money involved.


25 posted on 04/20/2013 2:23:05 PM PDT by FoxPro
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i doan follow that train of thot cuz why even have trains if you have moving sidewalks going as fast as trains


26 posted on 04/20/2013 2:23:42 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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27 posted on 04/20/2013 2:24:20 PM PDT by mirkwood (Turn off the tv and read.)
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To: LibWhacker

On the other hand, there will be a huge revival in the neighborhood saloon.

This will end drunk driving when it does happen.


28 posted on 04/20/2013 2:24:30 PM PDT by FoxPro
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My concern would be that all of this travel would rely on centralized computers and GPS tracking, which could enable the government to know the whereabouts of everybody at all times.

I would prefer that they build anonymity into the system.

29 posted on 04/20/2013 2:24:31 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

In the left or speed lane.


30 posted on 04/20/2013 2:25:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: LibWhacker

Don’t want!


31 posted on 04/20/2013 2:25:22 PM PDT by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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Driverless cars expected to go mainstream by 2025

That long?

12 years. I suppose so.

32 posted on 04/20/2013 2:26:22 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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I will hunt you down and double park in front of your car. And that will be the least of your worries. I fly planes, you know.


33 posted on 04/20/2013 2:27:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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I can’t tell you how many times my GPS wants to to go down a one-way street.

Yeah, good point. How are they going to fix that? It seems like GPS navigation won't be perfected until 3035, at the rate they're going. I don't even use the GPS system that came in my truck anymore... It's an idiot. I turn on the map so I can get a general idea where I am, but I don't let it do the navigating!

34 posted on 04/20/2013 2:27:45 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Lol, that’s hilarious!


35 posted on 04/20/2013 2:29:14 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Driving yourself around like an idiot is not a Constitutional right.


36 posted on 04/20/2013 2:29:31 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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This sounds great if you cannot drive although I’ll believe it when I see it. They’ve been saying that “self driving cars are just around the corner” since the 1950’s or so. There are a lot of weaknesses though. What if somebody hacks into the GPS system and causes thousands or millions of accidents? How about is the Red Chinese, the Russians, the North Koreans or Iranians EMP or otherwise take out the GPS satellites? Do the cars have enough AI to manage or at least “pull over?” I think I’ll pass for now.


37 posted on 04/20/2013 2:29:42 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
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Unless it has artificial intelligence and the voice of William Daniels, I’m not interested.


38 posted on 04/20/2013 2:29:53 PM PDT by eaglescout1998
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To: FoxPro

You forgot body shops! :-)


39 posted on 04/20/2013 2:29:58 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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True story. BART the SF Bay Area subway, that’s been more or less a disaster since it started running in the early 70s was designed as a futuristic system run by computers (those lovely IBM mainframes of the late 60s!), and therein lay the problem. Critics accused the designers of neglecting the basic rules of designing a railway, such as providing sidetracks for disabled trains, and other flaws that have plagued this system for decades and cannot be easily corrected.

But anyway, the designers planned to have the trains run entirely by computers without an operator, and only freaked out realizing that passengers might freak out riding such trains. Today, the overpaid union operator that’s there in the lead car does very little except perhaps delay the closing of the train doors, the system is run by a computer. And driverless trains run at every major airport in the world.


40 posted on 04/20/2013 2:29:59 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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