[Steely Tom]

Yeah, it’s a “Google-driven car.”

[Fungi]

So a cop pulls over a “driverless” car for anything, who gets the citation?

[Intolerant in NJ]

How are the potentially driverless cars doing in their testing? Awful...I recall in one early test a few years back the "driverless car" went out of control and ran into a local journalist who had come to cover the event - personally I hope we never get them - the only thing more uncomfortable than being in one while it's zipping along would be to be on the road where they're driving all around you.......

[Davy Crocket]

So your driving down the freeway.. Excuse me riding down the freeway and some a hole hacks the computer system controlling all the cars and all these so called computer driven cars crash..

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[heartwood]

Self-driving cars would increase the distance people are willing to commute, leading to greater emission of CO2.

Progressive dilemma there.

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And hackers might not just crash the cars. They could kidnap people.

[bigbob]

Yet another uninformed bullshitting blogger who spreads nonsense about which he is ignorant.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

How are the potentially driverless cars doing in their testing? Awful. For example, in the first week of March, Uber’s 43 test cars in three states logged some 20,000 miles on public roads. Their drivers had to intervene and take control away from the software, an average of once every mile.

An incredibly complex new technology doesn't work flawlessly right out of the gate and needs further development? Shocking, just shocking - must be doomed to failure, let's call the whole thing off.

Betting against technological advancement is a fool's bet. The bugs will be worked out and driverless cars will become a reality in a decade or two.

[ontap]

I'm really hoping this technology works, and I believe it eventually will. I'm getting on in years and see this as a way of allowing me to hold onto a smidgen of independence!!!

[discostu]

So’s machine manufactured, and yet...

[central_va]

Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.[2] The system can then be said to feed back into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems.

If you have one robo car in an all human driver environment then the feed back helps the robo car because intelligent beings are driving the other vehicles.

Nobody knows what will happen in an all robo car environment with CPU and software sending feed back to each other and to itself. Taking the "intelligence" out of the equation. My guess is grid lock.