Posted on 09/04/2013 1:10:10 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
PITTSBURGH —A Pennsylvania congressman traveled to Pittsburgh International Airport in a driverless car designed by Carnegie Mellon University.
Rep. Bill Shuster, a Republican from Altoona, made the 33-mile trip at about 11 a.m. Wednesday. Shuster is the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and he was accompanied by Barry Schoch, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
A Carnegie Mellon engineer was in the driver's seat as a safety precaution, but the Cadillac SXR was driven along local roads and highways by a computer system which uses inputs from radars, lidars and infrared cameras.
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I just saw your #18, kind of mirror what I am saying in #19.
The perfect metaphor for our present federal government: guidance from afar, no vision of the path ahead, and no personal accountability.
Can’t wait until they use that at Nascar, Should be exciting——not.
“Great way for electronic jihadis to kill a lot of people.”
Or for the CIA to take out people like journalist Michael Hastings who was prepping an exposé on Obama and the sanitization of his passport records.
Not a chance. There are plenty of us who's work involves driving on the highway to a location where we are not driving on roads.
Alright! No more DUI checkpoints. party on!
It would be also a handy way for the government to slowly section off no go zones, and the population eventually forgets those zones because there is no way to get to them on foot, unless you want to walk 100 miles or more.
Like pieces of our country they sell off to pay debts or food generating areas so we don;t see what we are eating anymore (shades of soylent green)?
Great minds think alike. Yes, I think it will be some version of what you say. I don't see the "rebel" option though (not very soon anyway). Americans are getting too soft for that, and the checks (even if devalued) will keep coming from Uncle Sam. Technological and productivity advancement will be what saves the high debt, money-printing, low-labor participation welfare state from collapse.
Will he file a bill calling for RWI penalties?
The situation on a typical highway is extremely complex. Trusting peoples’ lives to a computer program is a very very dumb enterprise.
“Oh there will be precautions. redundant systems. fail safe. blah blah blah”
You’ll have to pry my steering wheel out of my cold dead hands.
The sequester? :)
I’m on the same plan. Finishing up restore of 67 Camaro and 57 bel Air. Infinitely repairable. Still need a 53 Chevy pickup, then I’m set.
LOL!
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