Posted on 05/26/2014 3:15:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
These cars will be in a lot of accidents probably
Oh great...
now I can really feel safe on the roads...
It would scare the you know what out of me to be traveling in one of those things without a driver. No way I could ever just trust a computer.
I predict semi-trucks will be one of the last things automated on the road. Just gotta watch one back up, it’s a lot more art form than science, people are better at art than computers. Stuff that doesn’t require feel and instinct will be quick. I can’t wait to go to concerts in Phoenix and start sleeping as soon as I get in the car.
The micro-second that they cross into Arizona there had better be a human driver behind the wheel.
Probably a lot fewer than people. Computers don’t get distracted, don’t have blind spots, don’t drive drunk or tired, don’t get angry at the other drivers being dumb.
California already has brainless voters; why not driverless cars?
/johnny
Get over it. Truck drivers are just buggy whips.
Driverless trucks...I think they’re called trains.
They have drivers. That pretty much only seem to screw things up lately.
...and computers never crash.
Wait, let’s rethink that.
Embedded systems that don’t have users screwing with them don’t crash.
Wrong analogy. Driverless cars have brains, just not human ones. But your point is valid.
Docking, fueling a vehicle and many other last 100 feet obstacles are no longer Impediments.
Google can get the last 100 feet technology from Amazon and the truck will use the GPS of and supplied on and around a given property.
No need for a human.
In fact, customers can be given an inducement of lower transportation costs if they will allow the delivery co.pany6to install a system and that will mean more work in the structured cable businesses and increase bandwidth requirements for many companies.
Cha ching! Your job didn’t just get outsourced, truck drivers will become buggy whip manufacturers.
Love it.
Goose better think about a different industry. Maverick sure ain’t gonna go there.
Would kill car insurance.
Would cost police as ticket givers a bundle of work and money.
Not necessarily as they are run by computers. However the computers are programmed by humans which are known to make mistakes
Driverless trains would make a lot more sense.
Increase of dog death rate to ensue?.
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