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See Motorists Play, Read and Relax In Self-Driving Cars As Second Tesla Crashes
Youtube ^ | July 6, 2016 | Inside Edition

Posted on 07/07/2016 9:09:18 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: autopilot; cars; tesla
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To: I want the USA back

"...I don't want the damned thing taking over the controls..."


Absolutely agree with your post above, I want the USA back.

Computers, radar, and lasers simply cannot make fine distinctions that a human brain CAN in the same situations.
I saw a kid so engrossed in his game, texting, or Facebooking that he came to a halt IN TRAFFIC doing whatever he was doing on his cellphone.
It was in a regular "dumb" car, not a self-driving / semi-autonomous vehicle. This insanity has to stop.


21 posted on 07/07/2016 9:45:45 AM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: Former Proud Canadian

WSJ had a headline this morning saying, “Some Drivers Vexed by Tesla Autopilot.”

First time I’d seen “vexed” used as a synonym for “decapitated,” but that’s how languages develop ...


22 posted on 07/07/2016 10:05:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down." ~ Johnny Cash)
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To: Blue Jays

You guys are going to be really annoyed in coming years...

These vehicles will drive better than the average person. They see 360 degrees at all times and never become “distracted”. They do not drink.

Death rates plummet. Using the auto-mode will be optional though, at least until people think driving yourself is absolutely nuts and pass a law against it.


23 posted on 07/07/2016 10:25:59 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: al_c
Thinning the herd.

Tesla!

When it's not crashing into a Jersey barrier and going into a roll over crash into oncoming traffic, it's burning your house down while you sleep.

24 posted on 07/07/2016 10:33:52 AM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: fuzzylogic
These vehicles will drive better than the average person. They see 360 degrees at all times and never become “distracted”. They do not drink.

It will be a lot like airbags and self-braking cars.

Things will be great until they go horribly wrong. Then you have the mass recalls.

25 posted on 07/07/2016 10:37:33 AM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: fuzzylogic

Inclement weather will take em down, easily.


26 posted on 07/07/2016 10:38:14 AM PDT by Dirt for sale (QS)
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To: I want the USA back

>I don’t use “cruise control” because I am in control at all times. I don’t want the stupid machine accelerating or slowing down. I make the decisions in my car, not a dumb machine.

I have automatic cruise control that handles speeding up and down based on traffic in front me in my 5 year old dodge. I’ve never had the system fail. It’s the best way to drive long distances.


27 posted on 07/07/2016 10:51:02 AM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: seowulf

The road to progress is paved with recalls.


28 posted on 07/07/2016 10:54:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Did you get pears?)
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To: fuzzylogic

>These vehicles will drive better than the average person. They see 360 degrees at all times and never become “distracted”. They do not drink.

>Death rates plummet. Using the auto-mode will be optional though, at least until people think driving yourself is absolutely nuts and pass a law against it.

I’ll be happy to auto mode required for all freeway driving. It would really increase the throughput on such roads.


29 posted on 07/07/2016 10:56:22 AM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

The title and the video do not go together. There is no crash shown in the video.


30 posted on 07/07/2016 10:58:50 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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To: LouAvul

I just post them, I don’t write the headlines.


31 posted on 07/07/2016 10:59:24 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: SamAdams76
The road to progress is paved with recalls.

Too true, but I still sometimes miss that old Chev flat-head six that anybody could rebuild in two days.

32 posted on 07/07/2016 11:19:15 AM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I cannot wait for commercial long haul trucks to have auto pilot too!

All the idiots can kill each other.


33 posted on 07/07/2016 12:04:18 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: seowulf

This autopilot stuff is the user’s fault. Darwin award hopefuls.


34 posted on 07/07/2016 12:14:28 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Dirt for sale

no, not as easily as you might think. I also see people not adjusting to weather either.


35 posted on 07/07/2016 12:35:04 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Multiple Darwin Award Winners this year?

Perhaps a Special Category for Tesla Owners.

36 posted on 07/07/2016 1:12:56 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: Former Proud Canadian

The perils of a self driving car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBdrMTxsvs


37 posted on 07/07/2016 6:10:57 PM PDT by soupbone1
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