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,
Unfortunately, the expletives still fly.
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?
In some areas, the driverless taxis are just loved by the criminals and gangs. 1-3 passengers who cannot drive away from danger. Just imagine 2 creeps in 2 SUVs. They block the front and the back. The taxi algorithm detects obstacles and stops. The creeps take all of the money, jewelry, etc from the passengers.
Many moons ago, I started taking driving defensively very serious. When I am stopped in street traffic, I always leave room between the car in front, so that if someone, something happens, I can escape.
We always keep our cars with full gas tanks.
The FREEDOM that comes from individual, independent mobility is a hallmark of America. In the Soviet Union, you needed ID (your papers) to travel outside your immediate area. It limited travel by ANY means. Bus, train, bicycle, or just walking. Without ‘your papers’ you were not allowed to leave. The dirty little secret is they did not issue ‘papers’ to 80% of the populace.
As long as there are teenagers, self-driving cars will never take over.
Or certain minority groups.
Some people use cars for more than just transportation.