Posted on 03/11/2016 7:09:11 AM PST by gridlock
Can computerized cars drive better than we can?
The cover story of Time’s March 7 issue makes “the increasingly compelling case for why you shouldn’t be allowed to drive,” claiming that computerized cars are (or, it is hoped, will be) safer drivers than humans, and so the logical thing is to ban humans from driving altogether. The plan is simple and familiar: First you use behavioral economics (higher taxes) to discourage a certain behavior — think of smoking — and once it’s gotten really unpopular, you ban it. Before you know it, you can’t smoke in Central Park.
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Can computerized cars drive better than we can?
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Helen Keller can drive better than some of the fools on my commute.
They won’t need to put us in cattlecars — they’ll just tell our cars to drive to Auschwitz.
Computerized cars have a high accident rate and like to hit pedestrians. I get liberals do not want you to walk either. I do not think that a computerized car could handle most country roads let alone winter weather conditions.
Steering wheel. Cold, dead hands.
If you can’t program the car to do 80 MPH in a 55 MPH zone, everybody I commute with is going to be late for work, day after day...
After all Auschwitz was built by BASF and Bayer for a drug factory then they took on slave labor to reduce the costs.
Nanny State bump for later.....
We killed off the enforcement of 55 by actually driving 55 on I5. The traffic backed up for miles.
The technical problems can be minimized, to the point where a self-driving car could be just as good as the average driver.
I do not hang my objection to self-driving cars on the peg of inadequate technology. That is a sucker bet, because technology is going to get better and better.
Citizens living in the city apartments must use mass transit;workers on the collective farms may ride the monthly bus (with permission) for extraordinary needs .
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside
Citizens living in the city apartments must use...
You WILL be assimilated.
They’ll take Americans’ cars just about a week after they manage to take Americans’ guns.
I have been driving the speed limit back and forth from work every day this week. I have a new car with a pretty good speed control and a big digital speedometer on the dash, so it is just more convenient to set it and forget it.
There are four other lanes going 20 MPH over the limit. The rest of the drivers on the road can spare one lane on the right for people who actually follow the law.
Actually the uber liberals do not want you to live; they believe there are too many people for ‘sustainable living.’ So cars are a step like they used to ban smoking - you remember - just a small section in the back of the plane, then the whole plane, then the restaurants, then the bars, then your work place, then your home ... no driving cars, no meat eating, no rapid breathing, no breathing ...
You can’t have one without the other...
The level of idiot paranoia this topic brings up is saddening. Really folks, they are not going to take over your car and make you go someplace. The only people even contemplating such a thing are the luddites afraid of the technology. Guys need to get over yourselves.
And they want to take your cash too.
The ideal is a ‘cashless’ society ... so they have control over what you buy and who buy it from and when buy it. And selling too.
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