Posted on 11/10/2019 9:18:55 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Haha where do you think I got the numbers from?
That movie still cracks me up. I do miss the 70’s and all the crazy zany movies of that era.
I did answer. As technology improves it will be the statistically safer option. I think it is close now.
“It wasn’t too long ago when nobody wanted a PC, a laptop, a CD player, an iPad, a SmartPhone or 500 tv channels, either.”
Those things AFAIK didn’t kill or injure people.
...We do not need self-driving cars. Kill this FAD before it kills more people...
There are millions of people: seniors, new drivers, the handicapped, etc. who might not want a fully autonomous car, but who would welcome an electronic co-pilot.
Don’t deprive them of a little assistance.
I agree with this, to some extent. We all may be in need of a self-driving car someday. What I worry about is that there will be a “learning curve” involving smashed/run-over people before that happens. I absolutely don’t understand why they can’t train they systems through simulation. It would be easy to get 100’s of millions of hours of actual driving data by putting sensor packages on, for example, GM/FORD/Chrysler/etc.’s employee cars.
Have you ever listened to rap or death metal?
“Have you ever listened to rap or death metal?”
Fair point.
Just Watched a PBS Frontline Episode about Autonomous Vehicle’s and they disclosed the fact that the Volvo system was disabled. I assume it was done because their added on system would conflict with it.
They also explained the limitations of the Tesla system and how and why crashes occurred with them.
It was pretty interesting.
You’re probably right about it being disabled. A friend has a 2015 Subaru and it has collision avoidance auto braking.
Perhaps you read too quickly and think the pedestrian was the one on the phone - it was the “safety driver”
I can’t figure out why, with so many vehicles having the ability to detect and brake for a pedestrian, self-driven cars would require a known crosswalk to be in the area before the sensors decided an object in the way was worth stopping for...
Exactly. The trick is to get to that point without killing more people than necessary. The track that this technology is on now is possibly that very track.
One hundred years from now it will probably be unthinkable that humans would steer a vehicle going more than ten or fifteen miles per hour. It will also be unthinkable that humans will be able to get near traffic lanes without a transponder which unequivocally identifies them as human. The transponder will probably also identify the social security number, birth date, and fingerprints of the identified human.
We already have controlled-access freeways with cars frequently traveling at nearly one hundred miles per hour. Nobody doubts the likelihood of a pedestrian dying in such an environment and most pedestrians recognize the risk.
The real controversy will arrive when the statistics justify eliminating human drivers and a significant portion of the population will oppose such a move.
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