Posted on 05/05/2025 7:08:32 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
The average American adult will spend around three years of their life driving. If robots could take the wheel instead, well, think of all the Netflix shows we could stream instead. Don't forget work via wifi.
But the true benefit of a self-driving revolution will be in lives saved. And new data from the autonomous vehicle company Waymo suggests that those savings could be very great indeed.
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Then there's Star Wars. The left said it couldn't be done. Now there's a Golden Dome and the shooting down of rockets in Israel.
Uh, I’d rather not.
I’ll continue to enjoy rowing through the gears on my gated transmissions, thank you.
No interest in this.
This is an under-the radar revolution that’s sneaking up on us. It will come to a head-sooner the better. 100% self driving cars will result in fewer deaths-ask the bean-counters and then question the MSM who cried wolf over Covid deaths. More work getting done, car ownership going down, insurance rates and fewer highway patrolmen. Gonna be awesome.
False comparisons.
I guess this isn’t a good time to mention DEI, huh?
A self-driving car is a monitored, controlled car. Fine for Uber, Waymo, drunks, and realy old people. Not for me.
It’s happening now in blue cities. You can’t nip it in the bud.
Dale Earnhardt, Inc. ?? :)
Me as well.
I think there might be some areas where it could work, but not for people who still can drive.
I think for people who have a history of self-caused accidents, or people who don’t have the ability to drive safely anymore, or people who never learned to drive and dont want to, maybe it becomes an option.
For the rest of us, nope. I wanna be in control.
Thank God, we’re not using “MSN Logic” (a max oxymoron). Does anyone need further proof that our media lives well to the left side of the Bell Curve. Journalism - always a viable option when you can’t even qualify for a studies major.
That was bad. Real bad.
One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Miss...
eh, no I don't think so.
I’m still wondering how the insurance is going to work.
The Iron Dome is great for intercepting one or two incoming missiles at a time. But a full barrage of missiles overloaded it.
That's what it's like depending on a self-driving car to depend on all of the variables of a busy road, with lightly painted lines, pedestrians jaywalking, maybe on a small road with a pedestrian walking out from behind a bush to check her mailbox (and thus standing barely in your lane), or when a car is swerving into your lane from the other side. Or dodging potholes.
My 3-year-old car came with driving assist. I played with it some in different scenarios. Not even in the most optimum scenarios did it handle the situation as good as I could. I turned it off and haven't regretted the past 3 years of it not helping nudge the steering wheel to "help me".
Remember Minority Report. No thanks.
They sure did go dei! Shame- when Bubba was buying the nation with his blm hoax crap, Dale Jr and ilk really got behind him and promoted him non stop. Stopped wa5ching Nascar at that point. Now they are on the anti gun bandwagon too.
Wow, author Bryan Walsh is an idiot to write this: “There’s as much as a 2.5-second lag between what we perceive and how fast we can react in a vehicle traveling 60 mph, which means a car will travel the equivalent of two basketball court lengths before its driver can even hit the brake.”
He should stick his finger in a boiling pot of water for 2.5 seconds to test that.
Well I gu3ss one good thing to come out of it is that it makes the road safer for those of us who refuse to let a computer prone to malfunction take over driving for us. We wo t have to worry about the idiots who text and drive or the drunks behind the wheel anymore, or not as much I should say.
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