That will put a sock in the mouths of the idiot hipsters that promoted self-driving cares because human drives were all supposedly a bunch of idiots that couldn’t be trusted with private auto ownership.
Agreed. I kept hearing how flawless they were. What’s the fatality rate based on number of driverless cars in USA compared to cars driven by humans?
1 in 50 vs 1 in 5000?
“That will put a sock in the mouths of the idiot hipsters that promoted self-driving”
I despise those types that want autonomous vehicles since they feel that mankind is not worthy of private vehicle ownership, but I do think autonomous-assist vehicles are the way to go once the technology matures.
I’d *love* to be able to put my car on autopilot when on the highway. Plus they’d work wonders for vehicle control during periods of high congestion (idiots, to this day, think that the word “merge” means “pull into the other lane 3 miles before the merge point then block and “mother-f” anyone doing the right thing and driving up to the merge point because the idiot is mentally retarded”).
I totally get the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles ... I simply think the pros outweigh the cons. (Disclaimer : I develop “stuff” for autonomous applications for a living ... I am not ‘big brother’ ... and I certainly see the dangers turning over control of a vehicle to a centralized entity)
“. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 2016 data shows 37,461 people were killed in 34,436 motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day.[1]”
“Idiots” that can’t be trusted driving cars: 37,461
Self Driving cars: 1
In fairnewss the Self Driving car stat is for 3 months. The 37,461 is for a full year.
Here’s your sock back
“That will put a sock in the mouths of the idiot hipsters that promoted self-driving cares because human drives were all supposedly a bunch of idiots that couldn’t be trusted with private auto ownership.”
Dude, there was a human ‘at the wheel’!
They will argue that, statistically, driverless cars are safer.
There are more pertinent points to critique Oober about.
Government bears the blame here, as everyone with any common sense at all knew that the AI was assuredly going to kill someone; we have a long way to go...