Posted on 11/04/2025 12:17:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
It only has to be better than you...for what? For you to feel comfortable going to sleep while you're car keeps going? Because "better than me" isn't good enough for me not to take the additional precaution of staying alert and engaged in the event something does go wrong.
Also, while we can certainly make a determination of whether it is more or less accident prone than the average driver, that determination is going to vary quite widely between individual drivers. So what tells me, as an individual driver, whether or not it is better than me?
I had a 67 with a 289 for a short while in the early 00s.
Sadly the car had to be sold partly for financial reasons and mostly to keep the peace at home for reasons I can’t remember now.
I have a die cast 1:18 in a case at least.
I just can’t put my foot on the floor. My brain won’t allow it. But my first car was a stick. That could explain it.
More screen time. Sheesh.
I could give you a number. But NO.
2014 Z51 ‘Vette with dual turbos and updated (2019) brains.
My usual touring car is a 2015 Camry SE hybrid. The driving assist infuriates me.
Lots of trips Mpls to DesMoines to Denver to Albuquerque.
Now I usually lauch west on I-10 from JAX.
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As a retired biophysicist/biomed engineer who wrote life-support software, the aids are nice but don’t match an alert human.
My first was a stick.
My last four were stick.
I urge everyone to read Matthew Crawford’s “Why We Drive.”
He has a very different take on what “driverless cars” are all about, and it isn’t you getting more work done or resting. It’s about prepping you to SELL YOU SOMETHING.
Cars in that era were solidly made, with lots of horsepower and rear wheel drive traction. If I win a lottery jackpot . . .
I-80.
I-70 is Missouri, STL to KC.
I-80 is Iowa, Davenport/QCs to Council Bluffs/Omaha.
The Tesla self-drive isn't driver assist. It's not even close. I've driven a Tesla model S with the full self-drive in a rainstorm on the 610 loop in Houston during bumper-to-bumper work traffic. It drives itself - literally. You don't touch it. It reacts to traffic situations faster than you do. I took this car from my moms house in suburban North Houston to my farm in NE Texas. I never touched the wheel, the gas, or the brake. It went door to door, dirt roads, etc. The only thing it doesn't do is blow the horn. Tesla says they will soon add this option in an update.
They only have to approve anything that has the capability of backfeeding into the grid. Charging an EV doesn't qualify.
Correct. My error. Still boring.
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