Posted on 03/20/2018 6:32:48 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
Now that an Arizona woman was killed after being struck by a self-driving Uber vehicle many questions come to mind not that they shouldn’t.
We live in Pittsburgh, lots of hills, and lots of snow and ice.
There are times when we have difficulty controlling a car in those conditions (our weather forecast is for 6 inches of snow later today and tonight).
A couple months ago my wife, after driving to and from work in terrible road conditions, wondered how a self-driving car would handle it. What do you think of these self-driving cars navigating snow and ice?
How is a driverless vehicle gowing to shovel itself out and throw some sand down to get going?
While pulling a boat...
Well, there we have it! An inanimate object(without human operator) has killed one more person than ANY inanimate gun(without user) ever has! Is it the car’s fault? Will this result in a ban on all driverless cars? These vehicles have the ability to do what guns cannot-kill without a human using them.
I like to start stopping WAY before the slippery condition so by the time I get there, I've already slowed down and have control.
Not if these “self driving cars” are limited to being operated in Liberal enclaves. Then they can be seen as performing a necessary community service.
BRAVO!!
I’m involved in self-driving technology tangentially in my profession, so I could write about this for hours. For now I’ll just say this ... when you account for the limits of the technology, the cost, and the difficulties of implementing it, you find that self-driving cars are a “solution” looking for a problem to solve.
Bit human drivers kill tens of thousands of people on the highways every year...
surprising that driverless cars are getting so little support at FR. go to any public place and look around, folks. could a computer really do a worse job than the vast majority of the people you see around you? no, I thought not.
the faster we are 100% driverless, the better off we will all be; I just hope it happens before we reach full “idiocracy” levels.
That is a great idea. There should be established national testbed municipalities for driverless cars .... in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland OR, Wellesley MA..... Actually, anywhere that has declared itself a “sanctuary city” (or state) would be perfect
Nobody saw this coming, nope no one, uh huh.
But, when you look at the tens of millions of human driven cars vs the handful of autonomous ones, safe driving miles for humans are far batter.
What is a driverless vehicle going to do during periods of lost GPS signal, i.e., solar flare activity?
Seems like this robot broke the cardinal rule:
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Isaac Asimov’s 1st rule of robotics.
LOL Ban automatic transmissions ! That would greatly reduce the number of numbskulls out on the road.
They were dangerous before this death. It’s just that most people, excluding me, didn’t want to think they were.
You mean to tell me that a 4 thousand pound metal and plastic vehicle is moving at speeds up to 70 mph and is controlled by a video camera and a gps connected to a computer program?
Anyone who would set up something like this is criminally responsible for any ensuing deaths.
But no one will listen. This death will be explained away as a “glitch,” and development will continue. They will just need to “tweak” the program a bit, and everything will be OK.
Answer. Yes.
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