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.
Freepers tend to support public policies that hold people accountable and treat them like responsible adults instead of making everyone meet standards that are established to accommodate the sizeable portion of our population that is incompetent or retarded.
Imagine that.
You'll probably find almost zero support on FR for the development of robots to take school exams for children ... for the same reason I described above.
>>could a computer really do a worse job than the vast majority of the people you see around you? no, I thought not.
Yes, a computer could do worse. Unless, of course, you took away peoples freedom to drive a car. Then, all the cars could get in a well-ordered line and wait their turn. We could get where we are going in a very average period of time with no benefits to accumulating skills or learning to work traffic efficiently.
So, the computer wins as long as we are content to trudge forward, in good order, as expected of us by our betters.
After all, no one REALLY needs to drive their own car. Its not like the Founding Fathers envisioned a day when sedans would have 300 horsepower! Operating your own vehicle has no legitimate transportation purpose.
“the faster we are 100% driverless, the better off we will all be”
I won’t go that far but the various accident avoidance devices they’re now putting on cars are great.
I was watching seagulls fly near our motel room railing a couple of weeks ago. The person below us was feeding them. It’s utterly miraculous how they can control their flight with those huge wings. When I see a robot do what those gulls do then possibly robotic driving is feasible.
Why should I support something that someone else can control?
Apparently you are the only one who thinks that in a time of crisis the government will be nice and let our self driving cars go where we want
The only way that will happen is by government edict.
It's amazing how many so-called conservatives have no problem with that.
An incredibly naive, if not completely ignorant point of view.
Moreover, cars are freedom. No way in HELL am I going to give over control of my vehicle to some government-controlled computer. You blue-staters can keep your self-driving cars.