What's new with the tech?The tech is coming up fast for both self drive and flying.
I suspect ALL the vested interests will work mightily to slow it do a claw or stop it if possible.
Both would be real disruptors to the status quo.
The unseen consequences would be many and far reaching.
And the benefits to the masses of people?
Hey, who said that was of any importance?
They are being tested in my area by Waymo; I see several daily on my commute. I can't wait! I'd rather take my chances with a thoroughly engineered self-driving car than all the morons I see texting while driving, or with dogs in their laps.
I own and love a dog. You can get a leash at Petco that has a standard seat belt buckle. Fido is tethered in the back when we go anywhere in the car.
Almost all of us who are fortunate enough to reach retirement age will get cataracts; believe me, they impair your vision. The Baby Boomers will be reaching their dangerous ages soon.
Please pardon my angry tone, but this goes directly to my own safety.
I really didn't start the thread for politics. It's like starting a thread about airplanes in the year 1538. The politics are extremely premature, hypothetical, and irrelevant. Technical and legal aspects are OK.deleted (too political, I presume)
So far the facts are that the pedestrian was outside the official "crosswalk" zone - jaywalking if you please and the vehicle had a human in position behind the wheel, assigned the role of "emergency override" for the lack of a better term. Nothing really to embellish at this point.One Uber self-driving vehicle was in an accident last year; the investigation did not find the Uber vehicle to be at fault.
The National Transportation Safety Board among others will be investigating the recent Tempe accident; let's get the facts before we draw conclusions.
Sorry thing is...
Someone gets run over by a self driven Uber car and dies. Then everyone else has to just live with it.....like we have no choice !!
I'm sure if I were to search through enough microfiche I would find newspaper articles from the early 20th century saying the exact same thing about horseless carriages.
I would also be interested in knowing just how many other people in the same area were run over and killed by cars with human drivers in full control. In addition, what were the circumstances that brought the accident about? Did the person fling themselves in front of the Uber car? Was the person blatantly ignoring the rules? Did the Uber car run a red light or was it speeding? Details.
Recently here in Miami, a new high speed rail system called "Brightline" was opened up offering service between Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. After a few days, the fatalities started piling up. Six people were run over by the trains. The outcry immediately began. Brightline is unsafe, irresponsible and should be shut down. No mention of how these negligent accidents happened. Then details start to emerge. One woman committed suicide by jumping in front of the train. A bicyclist is seen completely ignoring the loud clanging bell, the barricades, the myriad flashing lights and deliberately goes around them and gets crushed. Similar blatant ignoring of the safety warnings caused all the other deaths.
There comes a point where some personal responsibility for one's own safety needs to get factored into the equation. I think so anyway.
And even then, no system is going to be perfect. No machine is going to be 100% safe, at least not with our current technology.
Good question. I'll stick with my stupid, user driven truck. In fact I'm almost done with a 1961 falcon that I'll be daily driving. It's even dumber but the pedestrians will be safe....The one question I have is , who carries the car insurance ? If a car can drive itself , then I'm not paying for the insurance and I'm not responsible .
Doesn't matter who/what is driving, a car can't stop as fast as a person can get in front of it.but the pedestrians will be safe....
True. But eyeballs are better than sensors in this case. The tech is not that good.Doesn't matter who/what is driving, a car can't stop as fast as a person can get in front of it.
Human anticipation is far better too .True. But eyeballs are better than sensors in this case. The tech is not that good.
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