[RomanSoldier19]

its ok , as long as they are lethal

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[SamAdams76]

I just bought one of those Subaru Outbacks and I noticed that when it gets out on the highway, it just wants to drive itself. You push a button on the steering wheel and the car keeps itself between the lines and stays a certain distance behind the car in front. Also, it automatically brakes itself if you are dumb enough to want to try and back into something.

This is how cars will eventually self-drive themselves. A little at a time. Eventually, they will take the whole driving experience over and we'll be sitting in the driver's seat reading a book and sipping on a glass of wine.

[marktwain]

Many things deliberately avoided in the article.

Self driving cars, if allowed to, continuously improve their driving skills and are likely to be much better than humans in most situations.

It is in the interest of insurance companies to *not* reduce accidents. Less accidents mean lower premiums. The insurance companies get a cut of the premiums.

[P-Marlowe]

I just bought a car that is sorta self driving. If you turn on cruise control and lane control it will keep you a safe distance from the car in front and keeps you centered in your lane.

It scares the heck out of me to use it. I don’t trust it.

[coaster123]

Cars won’t self drive they will be totalitarian government driven. You will go where you are allowed when you are allowed.

[catnipman]

” IIHS says self-driving cars will need to feature programs that can in no way conflict with safety and law protocols”

which means any kind of out of the ordinary event in which an unexpected obstruction of the road occurs, SDC’s would simply have to freeze in place because going outside the lines would conflict with safety and law protocols ... minimum speed limits would be a problem too in case of bad weather, local flooding and road obstruction ... i also see a problem merging with high-speed traffic, oh, and about a gazillion other similar problems, and that’s just related to the requirements for absolute slavish observance of all safety and law protocols ...

[Vendome]

who did the study?

Anthony Fauci?

[bgill]

Let it get one speck of dust on the computer and you’re speeding through a school zone at 120 mph and the breaks don’t work.

[marktwain]

False premise: Self driving cars do not need to eliminate car crashes. They only need to reduce damage and injury, on average.

In short, they only need to a bit better than the average driver.

They do not need to be perfect.

[marktwain]

What we should be doing, is fighting tooth an nail for a physical (not software) switch to turn off self-driving, and an option for completely autonomous self driving (no data sent from the vehicle, mode).

The systems calling for network participation to be essential to autonomous vehicles are Orwellian in essence.

[I want the USA back]

Self driving cars will be monitored and controlled by a government agency. Then, if there’s another lockdown, the agency will have you arrested for breaking the stay at home order.

Or immobilize your car.

[dragnet2]

And forget the days of high performance custom cars, custom paint jobs etc...You’d have to be a moron to do that to a car you don’t even drive. Eventually they’ll all be the same color, and max speed will be something like 55 mph. Self driving cars will be a very boring activity. The new generations will have no clue about the freedoms and what it use to be like.

[windsorknot]

Add “human” to driver for that extra touch of stupidity.