Posted on 06/11/2025 7:14:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What about people in rural areas. We need self driving cars too
Boycott.
Otherwise, we'll be slaves.
It is a great way to, over time, make roads disappear because the cars will not know the roads are there. That would allow the elites to hide in plain sight and industrial complexes to similarly disappear.
And when the time comes, AI will have them drive you to the gulag.
Doubtful where I live
Yeah, cause we really need LESS upper body exercise. I just hate this crap. Just WHY. Leave me alone let me drive my GD car. Why do so many morons cheer this crap on.
“Vast swaths of our lives became consumed by auto debt, repairs...and years spent behind the wheel.”
We recognized that problem early on. I always insisted we live less than 10 miles from work and I was able to hit 4 miles for me, 10 miles for my wife. We always bought used cars with 20k to 30k on them and saved a bundle on first year depreciation. We always had four year loans and kept the cars 10-12 years, so we had many years without automobile debt payments.
With those few simple decisions, we were never slaves to the automobile.
What I want is a THIRD PARTY involved if some stranger is driving me as I don’t like being a HOSTAGE to some Pakistani who might be behind the wheel, particularly if he has control of my luggage. If that means Uber, fine, if it means a taxi service that is based on paying the THIRD PARTY, not the Pakistani, fine. If it means a driverless car, where I don’t pay the (non-existent Pakistani) driver fine. In all these other cases, it’s no longer me being a hostage.
I like to do my own driving.
Who pays when an accident occurs has been the biggest impediment to driverless vehicles. It is a legal spaghetti nobody has figured out.
Safety? Like when the driverless car parked over top of a woman in the street? Took awhile for her to be noticed (i think it was overnight or early morning) and then the company had to be contacted to get it off her. Thankfully she wasnt dead or badly injured in body but i would think that could mess with your mind to be pinned under a vehicle thats doing what it chooses to do.
MULTIPLE WAYMOS WERE TORCHED IN THE LA RIOTS.
Will they get me to my destination quicker?
I know it won’t be as fun, but it also won’t be as aggravating. Both are characteristics of driving.
Not in what’s left of my lifetime,
“With those few simple decisions, we were never slaves to the automobile.”
Agree, in my case, it’s about once a DECADE where I will pay someone for a non-covered repair. The rest of the time, I fix the cars myself and I don’t buy into the crap that cars are “too complicated” to fix - 20 years ago we didn’t have YouTube, now we have resources that we only DREAMED OF then - plus, if you buy a Japanese car, most of the dreaded repairs never happen. The people making the “too complicated” claims are simply making excuses for their laziness.
Unfortunately, the expletives still fly.
I LIVE RURAL.
HAVE FOR OVER 32 years. WAS RAISED RURAL.
HAVE been driving since age 16. Now 85.
HAVE driven over a MILLION MILES===NO ACCIDENTS.
HAD ONLY ONE NEW CAR IN ENTIRE LIFE & PUT OVER 444,000 miles on it in about 22 years.
DRIVING 1976 1 ton STEEL 4 speed dually 454 Chevy truck that has over 348,000 on the chassis. I PERSONALLY PUT ON OVER 250,000 miles TOWING 2 horse & 4 horse trailers-—bought it used in 1986.
DRIVE 1979 STEEL BUICK WAGON with over 224,000 miles...bought it used in 1981. Also towed 2 horse trailer with it.
EASY to maintain. PARTS still available.
SUMMIT RACING PARTS HAVE NEVER LET ME DOWN.
DO NOT HAVE ANY INTEREST IN ANYTHING SELF DRIVING.
HAVE been places with truck that are rather off the beaten track.
Telecom changed massively in the 1990s with packet-switched networks (AKA the Internet) replacing circuit switched networks. Packet switched networks were much more flexible and thus useful, not to mention cheaper overall.
There are lots of parallels with the transition from trains to cars, with trains being like the older less flexible circuit switched networks and cars/trucks on roads analogous to packets on a packet switched network.
You can’t convince me roads and cars aren’t a better idea.
What could possibly go wrong?
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