Posted on 03/11/2016 7:09:11 AM PST by gridlock
Excellent Danka !
If they can’t get us to give up our cars, forcing us into computerized ones that go where and when they program them to go is their next-best option.
I added the keyword “redbarchetta” to this thread. It’s the “banglist” for self-driving car articles. Or at least it should be.
:^)
And your naivete is troubling. Name one instance in which government's power has not expanded once created. And tell me that you believe for a second that these cars won't be "regulated" by the government.
The plan may not be for the gestapo to "take over your car and make you go someplace," but it may very well be to track where you DO go, and to STOP you from going certain places.
If you believe otherwise, you're living in a fool's paradise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBdrMTxsvs
HBO comedy series “Silicon Valley” and the driverless car.
Great song.
YES!!!
The only people talking about giving the government power on self driving vehicles are the people that are against the tech. Nobody developing the tech is doing ANY work with centralized controls. I have absolute certainty the government won’t be controlling the cars, logistically it’s just not doable. Even once the cars are smart enough to drive themselves, trying to control that many cars at once is a doomed idea.
This is the same foolishness I heard a decade ago when people insisted store loyalty cards would lead to government purchase monitoring and controls. 10+ years and those paranoid fantasies still haven’t happened. Same thing will occur with self driving cars. The paranoids will rant and rave and nothing will actually happen and 10 years later they’ll be ranting about something else and hoping nobody remembers when they got the car thing wrong just like they got the loyalty card wrong. Well I remember.
California by any chance?
A holes galore on our free ways.
Right.
Let the car’s computer change that flat tire.
Summary
Underhill, a seller of "Mechanicals" (unthinking robots that perform menial tasks) in the small town of Two Rivers, is startled to find a competitor's store on his way home. The competitors are not humans but are small black robots who appear more advanced than anything Underhill has encountered before. They describe themselves as "Humanoids."
Disturbed at his encounter, Underhill rushes home to discover that his wife has taken in a new lodger, a mysterious old man named Sledge. In the course of the next day, the new mechanicals have appeared everywhere in town. They state that they only follow the Prime Directive: ''to serve and obey and guard men from harm". Offering their services free of charge, they replace humans as police officers, bank tellers, and more, and eventually drive Underhill out of business. Despite the Humanoids' benign appearance and mission, Underhill soon realizes that, in the name of their Prime Directive, the mechanicals have essentially taken over every aspect of human life. No humans may engage in any behavior that might endanger them, and every human action is carefully scrutinized. Suicide is prohibited. Humans who resist the Prime Directive are taken away and lobotomized, so that they may live happily under the direction of the humanoids.
Underhill learns that his lodger Sledge is the creator of the Humanoids and is on the run from them. Sledge explains that 60 years earlier he had discovered the force of "rhodomagnetics" on the planet Wing IV and that his discovery resulted in a war that destroyed his planet. In his grief, Sledge designed the humanoids to help humanity and be invulnerable to human exploitation. However, he eventually realized that they had instead taken control of humanity, in the name of their Prime Directive, to make humans happy.
The Humanoids are spreading out from Wing IV to every human occupied planet to implement their Prime Directive. Sledge and Underhill attempt to stop the humanoids by aiming a rhodomagnetic beam at Wing IV but fail. The humanoids take Sledge away for surgery. He returns with no memory of his prior life, stating that he is now happy under the humanoids' care. Underhill is driven home by the humanoids, sitting "with folded hands," as there is nothing left to do.
I could see the technology being used as a sort of "advanced cruise control". There would still be a driver behind the wheel who would retain ultimate responsibility to grab back control if needed.
I will go back to the horse before I ride in a driver-less car.
Ooooh a big building. Meanwhile, back in reality, the government isn’t going to be able to remote control 100 million vehicles at the same time, no matter how many big building pictures you dig up.
You don’t know what that building is?
I know what it is, doesn’t change the reality that remote controlling a vehicle is a LOT of MOVING data, multiply it by 100 million and it’s just not doable. It’s not about the storage, it’s about the throughput, and the processing. If we ever get computers fast enough in their data processing to actually do real climate models instead of highly simplified, that will be about 40% of the necessary tech to centrally control America’s vehicles.
The same thing with credit card transactions. They have been used in myriad cases to track behavior and location.
Do you think for a second that the same government that is tapping every single cell phone would not be able to do the same thing for every car on the road?
They wouldn't have to "take over" the car. They could simply create codes that designate certain locations as "off limits" or "high alert," and any vehicles entering those areas would be disabled (automatically) or at the very least tracked. The technology isn't inconceivable; in fact, it's so simple it's virtually inevitable.
And the capability will exist to set limits on speed, duration of drive, and even require entry of a code to use the vehicle -- a code which the government issues, of course.
All in the name of "the public good."
Paranoid? Not based on history, it's not.
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