We will take these cars. and hit them with a metal pipe
The insurance rates for someone to drive your own car will be thousands of dollars per month. Self driving cars will only allow passengers to travel where permitted. The rich, will have chaffeurs and live where we proles will never see.
Americans like the idea of self-driving cars, but are less willing to cede control of the steering wheel to a computer program …Self-contradictory much?
If self driving cars end up costing a lot less money people will get used to them.
Polls don’t mean much now because the technology isn’t ready yet.
Never fear. Enough politicians will have their wheels greased, and it will be made into law that only self driving cars will be allowed. It’s for the safety of our children, that will require us to forfeit our own driving ability. You see, it’s all about the children. Do you hate children?
I can understand using self-drive in the same way we use speed-control...out on the open highway, and not in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
The reason they want all driverless vehicles as soon as possible is because that’s how they enforce their “Do Not Travel” list. If you’re on the list, your networked driverless car won’t take you anywhere they don’t want you to go, and neither of course will Uber or Lyft.
Would not be surprised if virtually everyone except a privileged few, end up with travel restrictions by default.
You just can’t have every Tom, Dick and Harry flitting around the country willy-nilly without getting official permission and being subject to positive control every moment. (their thinking)
Within a decade or two, the era of people driving themselves anywhere they wanted to go will be considered in the same light as “The Old West” is now. A lawless period when violence and aggression ruled the streets. When movies are made about that time, they will mostly present “Mad Max” types of scenarios.
The other challenge is that as vehicles get more automated, automobile insurance (carried by the owner of the vehicle) will become less important than product liability insurance (carried by the manufacturer). Manufacturers will effectively be forced to add more and more dumbed-down features to these vehicles (controlling the speed significantly, for example) that will seriously diminish their value to the user.
Each new gen is preyed upon to give up the skills of the previous one
I want the interaction of driving myself. Not being driven by an automated car. I must say though, I would LOVE the option to push a button and have the car drive itself. This would be most beneficial if I drank too much and wanted a ride home without having to find some other ride. The car would just take me home. Of course, this is such an infrequent thing and never happens anymore at my age, that it would still be a wonderful OPTION on long drives.
There are times on long drives I get tired or just get eye strain. It would be a GREAT OPTION to push a button and let the car drive itself while I nap or just close my eyes for an hour, knowing I have enough fuel to do so.
I don’t know how these self driving cars are going to monitor the rest of the car’s functions. If you go do sleep on an 8 hour drive, does the car know to wake you when fuel runs low, or do you wake up in a live freeway lane after running out of gas?
These self driving car stories, this entire conversation, is lunacy. And I’m tired of crazy, narcissistic, fool techies claiming what the future will be. We are not slaves to technology, it’s the opposite.
My Mom drove a stick shift car for over 25 years because she “liked the control”. 65 year old gal driving a 5-speed Accura Legend. :)
I have a hard time driving an automatic, it is just unnatural. I also don’t like self driving horses. I want the damned thing to go where and when I want it to go. Funny, many years ago my Grandpa was stopped by a cop and warned about not wearing a seat belt. He told the cop he didn’t strap himself to a horse either.
The government will be able to:
Track your every movement
Only allow you to travel where they permit
Only allow you to travel when they permit
Use your vehicle as a mobile cell which delivers you to the jail when they want
The possibilities for government mischief are endless.
Simply another thing to add to the cost of driving. Imagine the repair bills to keep all of these sensors working. The annual inspections to make sure your radar system and GPS are calibrated. If one of the sensors goes bad out of warranty you will be back to driving your robo car yourself. Like the ubiquitous check engine light the check sensor light will stay on and poor people will never get the stuff fixed.
Any bets on the first jammer frequency that someone throws at one of these cars to show their vulnerability?
Are powers that be going to raise the ridiculously low posted speed limits, speed limits that are primarily a revenue generating scheme?