Fuck that, I'll never give up my car. The day private vehicle ownership is outlawed is the day I drive thru the state house. I don't want anyone having any control over my vehicle. There's already a couple cases where people belive cars were hacked to kill someone.
There's things called buses, trains, and taxis. Unless your a raging alcoholic, I don't think buying a self driving cat for duI avoidance is economically prudent.
Nearly all near cars have black-boxes that record data . do we have 'control' over that information?
That a good question, I know I've heard where the State needed a warrant to get the info from the computer. I don't know the circumstances, probably only if you own the car outright. There's probably a way to hook up a laptop and wipe it. Just drive old stuff and keep fixing it.
great idea. I also read where car insurance will get cheaper. I also hope I live long enough to see it...my guess is it'll be common place in about 15 years
But, it crashed itself. I wasn't even driving. If anything the manufacturer should pay for the repairs.
There's the real question. .who's liable in an accident between 2 self driving cars? I've been told numerous times by police "you are supposed to be in full control of your vehicle at all times".
like in hot tub time machine 2. then they'll kill you for insulting them....
I believe that the law is, or will soon be, that the occupant of a self navigating vehicle has to be capable of legally driving the vehicle manually, in the event of an emergency or malfunction.
Yeah working out the kinks promises to be interesting.
Not entirely. As every car is slowly swapped over cars are going to have to have a swarm technology and then there will be hacking incidents etc.... as the technology evolves. So the order of magnitude difficulty between driving a fleet VS a single car to leverage the benefit will still have some issues to work out.
I take it you didn't see the video where they were testing one and it drove into the testers in front of it and crushed that poor fuck?
A good friend has wrecked 3 cars in 2 years because of fucking with his phone while driving. Last time I rode with him I told him never again, he spent more time texting them looking at the road, I ended up taking his phone from him. Luckily? he just lost his license because of the last accident. .now he's thinking he needs to pay more attention.
They also said insurance rates would decline when the seatbelt rule was enacted and when airbags were put in vehicles. Less money for anything isn't the American way. They know that just like new phones many people will run out and purchase one just to be the first schmuck in their neighborhood to have one. There's already to many driverless cars out there now. I saw one this morning that couldn't even back out of their own driveway without backing into the ditch....not just one wheel the whole Damn car . I think they need to work on pilotless planes first because I quit flying years ago !