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If anything you should be much more scared of more humans driving. Computer make WAY less mistakes than humans. Humans drink and drive, text and drive, fall asleep while driving. Driving is extremely dangerous and computers are programmed to do specific tasks like driving. So obviously computers should be controlling cars, not humans. It'll save many lives. Also they need that V2V so we don't crash around corners. The car will know from sensors and radar and can avoid it, while a person would be doomed to death or injury.
So some of us don't want what you want and think everyone should want. Get over it. Not everyone agrees with you, nor will they ever. It's just a fact of life. Move on.
The saddest thing in this story is what our security-obsessed Nanny-state society is doing to the young men who used to personify the rebellion and self-reliance that was central to our nation's character.
... with a healthy dose of denial and delusionment, as ricers everywhere know.
oh please, i am no ricer, never have been never will be. i tend to prefer cars with real horsepower. but one of the most fun little cars i ever drove was a honda 600 coupe like this one;
you could blast around the city at full throttle, and never break the speed limit, and still get over 30mpg. it was a neat little car to drive. and my friend that owned it drove a firebird regularly, and i drove a mustang.
OP, understand that you're asking this question on a board that's frequented by car enthusiasts. I'm one myself, but with age I find highway (or street) driving less and less "fun".
What I'd like to see are cars with an automatic driving mode that can be turned on and off with the switch of a button on the steering wheel -- like what I had on my old plane. For take-offs, landings, or any other time I wanted to fly manually I did. On long cross-country flights the autopilot was normally on. It handled the mundane chores (holding heading and altitude or tracking radio signals), better than I could, better than any pilot could during long flights that sometimes lasted for 6-8 hours. It also made me a safer pilot by letting me devote more time to in-flight planning, traffic and weather avoidance, visual navigation and to monitoring other important flight functions. And I arrived at the destination more relaxed and in a better mental state. THAT kind of automation would be welcomed by me, just as cruise control is.
The way I use my vehicle most of the time, driving from one residence in town to another, usually in another neighborhood, I have little use for a driverless car, but if there was one that could do a better, safer job of it than I could, great. I'd let it do the driving. I don't, however, like the idea of a car that can't be controlled by the driver in charge, and that driver should be alert, sober, and capable of monitoring the computer and taking over the driving at any second.
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