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1 posted on 01/28/2016 12:26:21 PM PST by C19fan
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what we need are driverless snowblowers

let them keep the streets clear.

Get them moving every time 6 inches falls, so you dont have to do 2 feet at a time


2 posted on 01/28/2016 12:28:17 PM PST by Mr. K
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People can’t drive in a blizzard too.


3 posted on 01/28/2016 12:28:22 PM PST by ThomasThomas (Veritaphobia The true sign of a liberal.)
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What happens when HACKERS take over the car’s computer, and take control of the car from the driver??? They could crash them at high speed into any targets they choose!


4 posted on 01/28/2016 12:29:17 PM PST by 2harddrive
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Driverless cars will be a big target for feral urban youth looking to destroy or “tag” something. They will make a sport of it.


5 posted on 01/28/2016 12:32:05 PM PST by PGR88
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Well, Potted up drivers have survived, maybe due in part to accomodation by other drivers in SoCal.

I suggest that introduces a ‘bias’.


6 posted on 01/28/2016 12:32:18 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s implied, usless explicitly stated as not applying.)
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Every driverless car has a driver in it. We called it driver training.


7 posted on 01/28/2016 12:35:15 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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How can the car tell the difference between a worker by the side of the road on a construction crew telling me go ignore the stop light and a crazy homeless guy waving his hands asking for money?


8 posted on 01/28/2016 12:36:13 PM PST by ThomasThomas (Veritaphobia The true sign of a liberal.)
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“driverless cars are working great, eh?”

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/09/dont-blame-the-robot-drivers/

and

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/humans-are-slamming-into-driverless-cars-and-exposing-a-key-flaw

(i am confident they will work fine ...someday)


9 posted on 01/28/2016 12:37:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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I really think a large, self propelled inanimate object on streets and highways is a bad idea in any weather...


10 posted on 01/28/2016 12:44:09 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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there is no difference between a Driver less Car and a Californian driving in a blizzard


11 posted on 01/28/2016 12:45:11 PM PST by butlerweave
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Muslims have orders to attach claymores to them and to reroute them to schools and churches.


12 posted on 01/28/2016 12:45:39 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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Brave New World.


15 posted on 01/28/2016 1:00:25 PM PST by YHAOS
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Mapping companies like Google have gathered insane amounts of data detailing exactly where the road is. If need be, the car can “fly blind” knowing better where the road is than you do. Only thing it might have a problem with is obstacles, like other cars stopped/crashed in the road - and that’s why every self-driving car should have manual driving capability: when the computer can’t discern what’s ahead, park until the driver takes over.


16 posted on 01/28/2016 1:16:40 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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lol - I suppose this is why it’s a good idea for a car company to be based in DETROIT!!!

You don’t have to believe me but all the car makers have autonomous vehicle programs. You might be surprised at how advanced they are and how they handle bad weather better than people. ...that said, there’s a *huge* difference between having something like this working (R&D) and being able to ship it.

In a country where 40,000 die a year on roads due to drunk driving, texting, watching PORN (http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/82584838-story), fatigue, etc...this capability will drop that number like a stone. I know that it is unnatural, I think it’ll take time for people to get used to the idea. My guess is drunks will be early adopters.

...and it *might* be a flop feature. Although I doubt it.


18 posted on 01/28/2016 1:39:04 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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