Posted on 03/20/2018 10:51:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
I work in an industry that uses a lot of robotics.
We have multiple safety measures in place, and bots still hit racks on occasion. That is in a controlled environment, where there is little else in the cell. On an open road, a little dust and rail will mess up the sensor.
Once these are mandated, you will regret it.
Freedom of travel has been a boon to mankind, and was viewed with great fear by totalitarian states.
I think you are all left behind by technology. And it is why the right is losing the battle for the hearts and minds of our country’s future.
You are a stuck in the past fool. Too bad. Instead of embracing technology and making sure it is done right, you stick your heads in the sand.
You are a stuck in the past fool. Too bad. Instead of embracing technology and making sure it is done right, you stick your heads in the sand.
The article sez she was thought to be homeless, as I recall. Back in the late 50s my brother struck and killed an old lady who darted out from between parked cars. He never even had time to hit the brakes. Police on the scene exonerated him. They said he never had time to react.
Right, he typed on his tablet and transmitted to the world-wide-web via a wi-fi network based in his home.
Just because I do not want a government-controlled computer to operate my car for me does not mean I am being left behind by technology.
So, if anybody does not embrace any and all technology they are stuck in the past and a fool?
Count me in that number.
I like riding my motorcycle when and nearly anywhere I want.
I do not want anybody,or anything, driving me around.
Yet lots of people are killed by cars with human drivers.
sure do
My teachers told us when crossing a street. Look first left than right and then left again. That goes if you are crossing a street by foot, bicycle or vehicle. (Cyclists though think the rule is not for them)
“If they do it will be because so many people are prejudiced against autonomous cars.”
So, the lawsuits against the driverless auto makers won’t be directed at any death and mayhem they cause, but the lawsuit grounds will instead be because people don’t like them? Seems like pretty weak grounds for lawsuits. I’d think the lawyers would be way better off suing for the faulty designs that caused the death and mayhem.
Ah, I don’t see it as a problem.
I know we have the technology. Not all technology makes money.
We have that in my area all the time.
A couple of years ago, some wacko group started putting up “ghost bikes” - that is, getting old bikes, spray painting them white, and attaching them to sign or light posts. This was to commemorate all the “bicyclists killed by drivers.”
The fact that the bicyclists were virtually all drunk or on drugs, most of them homeless people trying to wobble back to their bushes with absolutely no awareness that they were about to emerge into a major street, seems to be forgotten.
The drivers were just sober drivers doing the speed limit and suddenly these people emerged from nowhere.
Naturally, we’ve had horrible drivers, more and more of them stoned, now that pot is basically legal, who have simply run over people. But the majority of the time, it has been “homeless” people just staggering out in front of the traffic or across the train tracks in front of the train. Some of these are suicides, btw. A sad situation.
I’m addressing your characterization of “having a field day.”
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. You will learn that one day. Hopefully not the hard way but it’s not looking good.
In this case, it is coming. You have choices:
Keep your heads in the sand (which you are doing)
or Own it.
You cannot “own” what you cannot control.
We already have enough government intrusion in our lives and it saddens me to see a person who claims to be in favor of freedom clamoring for more.
May your chains rest lightly upon you...
Never cared anything that takes away my choice or control.
BTW if these self driving cars keep running down and killing people ..I guess it’s all in the name of “progress”?
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