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I might make it to 2040 but even if I did I would not trust a computer driven vehicle. How they would get a car to recognize a Moose? Or drive in Boston? Or figure out that a snow squall had dumped 2 in. of snow in the last 5 minutes?
They will not be able to use these in Boston. Computers do not have a middle finger.
The car would obviously have to have over-ride properties that would enable you to pull it into your drive at the country house by the lake, or your favorite fishing hole, or a new road that was just opened and is not yet programmed into the computer. This override would enable it to turn into the path of somebody else's automated car, and the fun is over for the other driver.
Or, on a winter morning, you tell your car to take you to work, and it reports that it has not yet received electronic confirmation that the roads have been plowed, so it refuses to budge. Or, it does go, and drives straight into a huge snowdrift that a human navigator could have easily skirted around..
It's amazing that all American cars are designed by engineers who live in Michigan, but still are blissfully unaware that it ever gets cold or snowy anywhere, and design cars to be driven on smooth paved roads in summery conditions.
And if your one of the 25% that do not have an autonomous car?
The engineering group says traffic lights will go away
No traffic lights, That's Great. So not only will the autonomous cars have to avoid me as I drive recklessly down the road, I will not have any traffic lights to slow me down. It would bad of course when I meet another driver at a cross intersection.
While I have no doubt this is the future, all cars will have to be autonomous before any thought of eliminating any traffic lights.
What about pedestrians? It's hard enough now in a busy area to sneek past the impatient drivers.
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