It's really interesting to see them driving around down here. A friend of mine had a funny experience with one... My friend was at a corner waiting for somebody, not ready to cross the street yet. The self-driving car detected this and stopped in it's lane to let them cross the street. Meanwhile the regular cars kept whizzing by in the other lanes, but the self-driving car would not budge. My friend looked at the person in the self-driving car and they both started laughing because of the miss communication and the car not being able to properly detect the context.
That would be badass! I didn't realize these were so far along. Hell yeah I'd do it. I'd imagine they have a manual mode if you want to do the driving but that self drive would save tons of hours of time every day. Drinking and riding would be great! How would drivers licenses work? There'd be no reason to have a test or wait until your 16 if you stay in automatic mode. In a few years I could remove the manual mode from my old parents. I'd probably look at buying a van or something where I can cook breakfast and shave while riding to work. You've totally blown my mind I'm going to start shopping for this now.
Self driving car systems would be awesome for those assholes that think they can drink and drive. Set up a breathalyzer in the car and if you are over the limit; only the self driving car can drive it. Imagine the reduction of drunk driving deaths?
It's cool that you guys want to get in accidents that are your fault, but no one else wants that. Especially if you're old. Old people are terrible drivers and this will certainly help that.
Yeah. I guess you would never use a taxi or a bus or train or plane since you are not in control. hoop fam
I have. The only accident I've ever been involved in was actually almost exactly as you described, except that there were no other cars ahead of me. And you're absolutely right to prefer an automated, accident-free system -- IF you assume that the automated system will work perfectly 100% of the time. Humans are imperfect drivers, obviously. But when they fail, they tend to do so in isolation. You don't really have the potential for all drivers on the road to simultaneously lose consciousness, or simultaneously veer left, or suddenly forget where the road is. A networked, automated system would (potentially) be susceptible to these kinds of catastrophic failures, even if the day-to-day accidents were reduced. I will take my chances with a large number of imperfect, but independent drivers over an automated, networked system any day. Or at least until Big Brother forcibly pries the wheel out of my hands.
