What could go wrong?What could go wrong?stupid idea. even if no real accident happens, many problems will arise with automated - can’t think and see/reason as human does - sort of technology.
Estimate cost per car $400,000. Plus cost of support staff. Human intervention still needed in certain situations such police guided detours. I do see it for delivery/shuttle/freight services in the very near future.
Both the WJR am radio host Paul W. Smith and Bill O’Reilly in
his book Old School said “Not a chance.” about accepting a driverless car. Smith: And the driver and passengers will have no way to make an emergency change over some sort of control-—it’s out of their hands totally.”
A preposterous reason for having them: A proponent said “So you want to go to a downtown building and will be there several hours. You send the car driving back to your home and when you want to leave you ask for it to drive to you downtown. That way downtown businesses and sports and entertainment venues will have no need to provide any parking lots. And that land can be changed to profit making businesses instead.”
Unless the carbon footprint including electric charging source is zero, you’d needlessly have thousands of cars going back and forth all day under that plan.
Government could ban all individual cars for us and demand we use the others or rent a mini car at a stand I saw in Futurist magazine. Like a row of bikes in a bike rack—all rentals.
There’s nothing more fun than a one-person bus.
“Artificial” intelligence is zombie intelligence.
Someday all the zombies will fail, all at the same time.
I still don’t trust them — they need Waymo testing.
I can see a plus side If you go out drinking no DUI. on way home
on the other hand if you want to make a quick stop at Wendys drive up window a bit more of a challenge
Thanks for posting. I will be on the alert. Dodging tumble weeds on the interstate is a hoot. I suspect dodging driverless cars will be even more challenging.
All this will become so unnecessary when we perfect electronic transporting.
Stop trying to convince me that driverless is good for me.
Ten times more expensive than Tesla, and it only works in Phoenix.
Pilotless aircraft will come first, IMHO. Simpler problem, bigger payoff for safety.