Posted on 11/07/2017 10:37:51 PM PST by iowamark
And will the first person be injured or killed or bomb be delivered by a driverless car? Mark my words I see these as source of death and destruction, without the suicide bomber.
Dr, like 40,000 die annually. Maybe fewer with self-dr8ving cars.
Waymo, is way too close to Wam-O.
Slow the first time it hits something, that name will stick. Brand name marred forever.
Poor marketing IMO.
Those self-driving driverless cars scare me. Let's say you're driving a car, and someone else runs a red light or is drunk and driving crazy, and that other car hits your car. As your car careens off course, you attempt to take control and several options present themselves to you.
One path will have you running over a young mother pushing a baby stroller. Another path will have you running over several small children. Another path will have you smash into a bus stop with a homeless guy on a bench. You have limited control and these are your options.
Can a computerized self-driving car make the most humane decision as to whose lives to spare? I've seen collisions like this happen within my sight, with a hit car deftly avoiding spinning into pedestrians in a crosswalk, just barely. Can a computerized driver do the same?
Self-driving cars and AI robots will keep a lot of people from having to go to a nursing home. I figure they will have attained such capabilities by the time I reach that stage. I’ve always said I will never go to one.
At the very least, we need to prohibit Muslims, illegals, and liberals from owning or using a driverless car in any capacity.
Well... as long as there is no one else 'on the road', it should be safe.
EXACTLY!
I just as soon neither be IN one nor on the same road as one...
Since they abandoned human override, I’m not exactly enthused at these.
Exactly - level 4 self driving cars can’t arrive soon enough for my 83 year mother and her 80 year old friends.
Driving with someone over 80 hrs old is like driving with someone who drank a bottle of gin. it’s terrifying
The computerized car will never have that problem.
You see, at Level 5 autonomy, cars will talk to each other, completely avoiding collisions with each other. Vehicles do not talk to a central network for this, just to each other.
The computer can make adjustments far earlier than a human can possibly make those same adjustments.
The drunk drivers, inattentive drivers and poor drivers will make autonomous vehicles happen faster because it gets those people off the roads first.
With 95% of vehicle fatalities caused by human error, there will be no argument against autonomous vehicles that makes sense.
Driving and car ownership will be reserved for the wealthy who want to race on a track or course, just like horses are today.
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are for people that can't take care of themselves or have trouble doing so. In my community, there are free or low cost services that will transport the elderly to stores, appointments, and etc. We also have an excellent bus service. And of course there are the ride sharing services and taxis.
ROBOT VEHICLES HIDE CRASHES
Robot vehicles are ALREADY killing people and crippling children, but you are NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT IT!
Shhhh! Please keep the secret. But human drivers must report accidents to the police. Robots have privilege to conceal accidents.
Robot gadgets are already installed in cars & semi trucks. They control following distance, lane departure etc. But each electronic robot gadget has 100s of defects. The big corporations who use them are technically illiterate. Safety personnel are illiterates.
Robots already cause major accidents, property damage, bodily injury and death. But how? It is simple.
Robots get a pass on accidents.
Humans must report accidents.
I rode with a church lady a few miles from her home to a best buy to help her get a good router.
She is 80 plus and that was an experience.
There are currently ~40,000 traffic fatalities per year. If that could be reduced to ~15,000 does it really matter that much to you that the most humane decision is made in each collision? In other words, what is your metric?
I would say total traffic fatalities would be one very reasonable metric, and if autonomous vehicles could reduce this significantly (e.g. more than 20%, and statistically significant relative to year-to-year variance), then that is a win. Second metric should be average trip time; also a 20% significant reduction in point-to-point travel would be a win. Third, reliability and maintenance cost-- should retain reliability and lifetime cost of ownership should not increase by more than 20%. Given benefits of being able to sleep, or do other things while driving, if autonomous vehicles could also do these three things, it would be an amazing change. All of these metrics would depend of course on having the majority of vehicles on the road be autonomous-- you would have to extrapolate available data to intermediate metrics to see if we are trending towards these goals initially.
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