Has your computer ever froze or crashed? Have you ever experienced a computer bug? Why the hell would anyone place their life in the hands of a computer controlled car?
Bro they’ll have to pull my cold dead hands from my Challenger steering wheel.
And what about hacking?
My BIL is filthy rich and bought a 120k BMW 7 series.
It’s a Great car but I wasn’t impressed with the auto drive...as we kept almost immediately swerving into the other lane!!
But you can make the volume louder by moving your finger in the air.
That’s worth something :)
I think it’s 700 HP THAT’S awesome
“Why the hell would anyone place their life in the hands of a computer controlled car?”
Most of us put practically all our money in the hands of financial computers. Works out pretty well.
I look forward to computer controlled cars. Most long-distance driving is on clear well-defined roads, no need for me to micro-adjust constantly for most of 20 hours’ drive (I do a 3000-mile round trip annually). Obviously have to pay attention when hands-off, and take over for complex/suspicious/confusing situations (bad weather, problematic vehicles in proximity, start & end “last mile” of trips).
Important objective fact: human drivers result in some 50,000 traffic fatalities annually. Yes, computer-driven vehicles WILL involve fatalities. The important, fair, & objective question is: which is preferable, the fifty thousand dead we’ve normalized, vs likely less under different contexts?
Outside of cases where obviously a human should be driving, self-driving cars are proving significantly safer than people ... like upwards of 10x better. In context & used appropriately, don’t see why you _wouldn’t_ prefer computer controlled cars.