If comrade obama supports it, it’s bad for American citizens.
Funny enough, I am an uncle siting by the fire, dreaming.
Had to laugh a few days ago when one of the Google self driving cars got pulled over by the MVPD for obstructing traffic... it refused to pass a garbage truck that (for obvious reasons) kept pulling over to stop.
Google, Apple, and most likely Amazon don’t have enough money to develop their own autonomous cars???
Ever hear of the private market?
This could set back autonomous cars decades.
Obama clearly wants to degrade and eventually destroy America.
Automated vehicles will be limited to traveling only 10 miles from your house.
Whether or not these cars are a good idea, this should be financed privately, not by the taxpayers.
Actually it's all part of a leftist compulsion to restrict liberty.
I have been posting for years on these threads that the left hates the automobile not just because they believe it pollutes but because it represents untrammeled liberty emblematic of the individual sending his own course without soliciting or requiring consent of those who govern him. Like the cowboy in the classic motion picture genre, an American on the open road is quintessentially American, he is free. The idea of Americans making their own independent way is hateful to collectivists.
Collectivists don't want you riding wherever and whenever you please, they want you herded into buses and trains where you are controlled. Indeed they have even said they want to force you to be housed in geographical areas in which you can be collected and transported under controlled circumstances.
The ultimate aim of the cyber car is not safety but to require the sojourner to solicit clearance through his computer to travel along a government approved route at a government approved time in control of a government agency akin to an air traffic controller. When you want to visit grandma on Thanksgiving you will need approval of your "flight plan," a clearance and a departure time from big brother.
Companies are going to make tons of money from self-driving cars. What is spending billions of tax dollars supposed to accomplish that the private sector is not already accomplishing?
The word Boondoggle comes to mind.
Autonomous?
this is the future. I’m willing to go full electricity once they release the cheaper model. This is how we combat terrorism and reduce muslim expansion. Dry Saudi of their funds
Tesla’s Autopilot System Is Creepy And Wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCAZWdqX_Y
Obama- fix the infrastructure first- where did all that money go
What good is it to have cars that cannot use the roads that are falling apart- more wsted taxpayers money
Using our money to take away our right to drive. The ultimate goal is a central computer system deciding how fast we go, what route we take and when we go. A system that records every move. A system that counts miles and bills us for them.
In addition, we will still have the property tax, registration, insurance premiums and liability.
Let’s see, the money will be spent on new regulations and the government will claim credit for this technology....you didn’t create that
A car is not "autonomous" if it has federal money paying for it to any extent. With the money comes control.
If you were alarmed by DEA license plate readers watching traffic on highways and recording the passing of every vehicle, that program is nothing compared to what will happen next.
You can bet these cars will each have a federally-mandated radio beacon by which cars can tell each other of their location, and by which our privacy of travel can be totally destroyed by government surveillance.
The proposed $4 Billion is just a government handout to Tesla, disguised as “research.”
Crony capitalism, Democratic Party style.