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Self-driving cars

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Self-driving cars

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What are your thoughts on self-driving cars?

Personally, I don't like the idea, one bit. I don't think I could ever put my life into the hands of a computer.

The auto industry seems to be moving full speed ahead on this.
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If it's used like cruise control with driver still at controls it probably would be ok.

Personally I wouldn't want some 'coder controlling my steering.
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I'm worried about my job with it...
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I own several cars from the 1960's. I don't expect I'll be going driverless. My wife would buy one tomorrow. Then I could send out for Pizza and Beer when the mary jane kicks in without worry.
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NS8401 wrote:I'm worried about my job with it...
I don't know what your job is, but....

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... TE=DEFAULT

It will be only a matter of time before many truck drivers are out of work. Automation is a very big long-term threat to the unemployment rate.
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bmw wrote:
NS8401 wrote:I'm worried about my job with it...
I don't know what your job is, but....

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... TE=DEFAULT

It will be only a matter of time before many truck drivers are out of work. Automation is a very big long-term threat to the unemployment rate.
School bus driver... is imagine that'll be tougher to automate... you need someone on any bus but particularly a school bus...
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Research done by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute suggests any sort of wide spread driver-less vehicles is a long way away.... and..... research suggests it is very unclear whether driver-less cars can ever be as safe as an experienced middle age driver. They can be statistically safer than young inexperienced drivers and older drivers who arguably shouldn't be driving anymore .

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstrea ... sAllowed=y
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Self driving cars on ice would be INTERESTING.
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I wonder how well self-driving vehicles would handle towing. As a driver towing boats, trailers, etc, I know there are lots of different considerations and maneuvers to make in split-seconds that are different than driving a car by itself. I'm sure whatever calculations are made to direct a self-driving vehicle wouldn't account for added weight, length, aerodynamics, and pull from what the vehicle is dragging behind it.
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Maybe self driving cars can copy the Doritos slogan:
[youtube] http://youtu.be/OCX2H2EgHxY?t=25 [/youtube]
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I like driving. Hands on the wheel, hitting curves, accelerating off of the line.
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Manual tranny too!
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6 years later, still no way I'm ever getting into a driverless car. Today's headline: "Driverless cars can be tricked into seeing red traffic lights as green"

How do you trick them? Just point a laser at their camera.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 ... ntent=news
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audiophile wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:40 pm Manual tranny too!
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Bryce wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:19 am
audiophile wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:40 pm Manual tranny too!
Is that a Spanish member of the LGBTQLMNOP community?

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