Nice safe autonomous cars

[xoxoxoBruce]

The fly in the ointment is the Police use LIDAR and are likely to fight that because it will fuck up their enforcement.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

this right here is enough to keep one of those cars out of my driveway:

"We're talking about owning an object, which you interact with every day, knowing that this object might decide to kill you in certain situations."

Cats, in other words.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's it, big dangerous mechanical cats.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

My ideal autonomous car will be truly autonomous. It will not only fill up its own tank but will also pay for the gas out of its own pocket. It will take care of registering and insuring itself and making its own car payments and appointments at the mechanic's. It will top off the wiper fluid with the good stuff, not that cheap crap that freezes at 20 below, and it will grab me a coffee while it's paying for gas.

It will even run errands for me so I don't have to interrupt my day, and I won't have to remind it to vacuum itself out, hit the car wash, or get detailed once a year.

In the winter it will warm itself up well before I get in and in the summer it will park in the shade or keep the windows open if need be and then remember to close them when it starts to rain. It will keep the glove box tidy, the tire pressure up, the ashtray clean. There will always be change for tolls and parking meters, and the insurance cards and registration will be readily accessible, but not needed because it will be on a first name basis with the local cop cars.

That's an autonomous car. Until then, automakers can shut the fuck up.

Tha's a pretty picture. Machines that do what we want, not just what we tell them to do. Like this little guy.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Griff

I feel like I was safer in my very touchy CJ-7 bitd. I had to be alert and on task.

Tesla Crash

And now, a second crash.

[Clodfobble]

Maybe.

Remember when Toyota was found to have some rare defect with the accelerator pedal, and suddenly every idiot with a fender-bender tried to claim it wasn't their fault?

[xoxoxoBruce]

In this case it's easy to check, there's a complete record of what the car was doing, and who was in control when it crashed.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by BigV

Tha's a pretty picture. Machines that do what we want, not just what we tell them to do. Like this little guy.

Or this guy

[tw]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Go ask the economist, asshole.

I'm sorry. Did I expose your shortages and manhood?

[tw]

Other manufacturers have been testing their systems by only testing the 'we see it and hit the brakes' feature. That way, consumers would not act too dependent on the feature. Why did Telsa tell consumers it would do more? Beta testing is about not promising too much while learning from oversights - when it fails to do more than what was expected.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's great, they are killing rich assholes, it's a shame tw only half qualifies.

[Clodfobble]

Every time I see this thread, I misread it as "Nice safe autoimmune cars."

[Griff]

[Spexxvet]

I'd like to see something that prohibits dickdom.