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To: C19fan
This isn't talking about "cars", regardless of the terminology in the patent. It's talking about something closer to "Personal Transport Pods".

Consider: trains on tracks or planes on autopilot -- you pull down the shades and fall asleep.

So what's the big deal just because it's a car?

(Other than the fact that they still have a long way to go with autonomous automobile design...)

8 posted on 04/03/2018 10:44:29 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
> ...you pull down the shades and fall asleep...

...or watch a movie, or play on your laptop or tablet...

10 posted on 04/03/2018 10:46:05 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

“So what’s the big deal just because it’s a car?”

People would be just as perturbed, I think, if you suggested their plane doesn’t need a pilot, or their train doesn’t need an engineer.


19 posted on 04/03/2018 10:48:24 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dayglored

If they want to give you the airplane experience they will need to make you wait in long lines at security and get squashed on both sides by “large” people for hours at a time.

Double bonus if they add a screaming child to the sound-track!


42 posted on 04/03/2018 12:24:54 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: dayglored
"What's the big deal about this being a car?" If you want to know the answer, just go to YouTube and watch any of the hundreds and hundreds of auto/car/truck crash compilation videos recorded in America and abroad.

Each different compilation contain's literally hundreds of accidents recorded from inside the victim's vehicles as they happened, and new ones are added almost daily. Just watch, it's enough to turn your hair gray and never get in a moving vehicle again, let alone a "driverless car".

Oh, one more thing; at least 50 to 60% of the recorded accidents are NOT the drivers fault. They have the misfortune of being in the exact wrong place at the wrong time, and there is absolutely nothing they can do to prevent it.

49 posted on 04/03/2018 3:20:17 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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