Maybe that's what the customers like. Also, are they getting a free ride as part of the experiment? I'll bet they'd like that, too!
Red Barchetta
They are not driverless. “a driver in the front seat “.
No thanks. I am not going to sit in the “driver’s” seat while a program takes control of my car, watching and waiting for the cursed computer to buzz and flash lights telling me that there is a situation it can’t handle.
If I had been driving we wouldn’t be in that situation.
Automation can work in a controlled situation in which nothing unexpected happens. There is no street or highway anywhere in the world where nothing unexpected happens.
My Mama was right in naming me Thomas. I doubt this rosy story. I see one possible hole in this story. 100,000 rides taken, without an incident or injury; but with a driver at the helm in case something went awry. If there ever WERE an incident in which the driver had to intervene to prevent damage or injury; do you think Lyft would confess and tell us about it? The REAL test will be when the cars truly ARE driverless. I’ve had computers since 1988. Don’t TRY to tell me that in 100,000 trips, the computers in those cars never had a hiccup. JMHO.
I’d be willing to accept a fairly high level of risk for crashing to avoid having to inter-act with most Vegas taxi drivers. I’d still fell safer.
Wait until your self driving car doesn’t want to go where you program it to go.
Show me the robust set of requirements and design, and then the actual testing that shows compliance to those requirements.
Appealing to mass, uninformed opinion does not make anything safe. By “uninformed”, I mean the people have no specific knowledge of the self-driving system.
But how fast do the cars go? Autonomous travel is easy at low speed.
(I work at a company that makes sensors for autonomous vehicles)
Though the cars are driving themselves, all of these rides have had a driver in the front seat in case something goes wrong....
So what’s the point? They’re paying a driver anyway, why not just let them drive?
Wait till the underclass discovers that these small, slow electric vehicles are packed with groceries.
I still don’t understand how the insurance is going to work. I’m not buying auto insurance if my car is making all the decisions for me. I guess Ford can buy my insurance for me.
Self driving cars leave no one to take responsibility for mistakes.
Reminds me of a joke I read somewhere: To ere is human, to be able to blame it on a computer is divine.
How did I get in this taxi?
The door opened. You got in.
There are a lot more Democrats than that; and, they are wrong.
Yes, there will be growing pains, people will die, but in the long run, self-driving cars will essentially eliminate deaths due to driving under the influence, falling asleep, texting-while-driving, etc. People in “our generation” will find it difficult to adapt to this, and we probably will be the last holdouts, but this technology will definitely become widely used within 20 years.
But WHERE are they driving? In downtown core? On freeway? In neighborhoods? Article doesn’t say.