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Perhaps, but I'm more interested in the legal/social/economic implications than the technological ones. That's not really an automotive issue.
I'm really trying to determine how comfortable people are with the idea of sharing the road with driverless vehicles.
Personally, I think it would be safer, but it's still a bit creepy (and I spent YEARS in the technology business).
Ken
Well Ken, I think I'll wait until they make an electric version before I get mine. That way I won't have to be there when it runs out of juice.
I thought more on the share the road idea. I could live with that, and would still drive / ride. It's a fact people who have no bee's wax behind the wheel in the first place do anything but drive. I would be far safer driving for myself while anyone who cared a less about the game was driven by the 'Machine'.
Well Ken, I think I'll wait until they make an electric version before I get mine. That way I won't have to be there when it runs out of juice.
Actually I'm hoping to hear a bit more from YOU on this. You're a "car" guy right? So despite our political differences, you have an opinion on this subject I'd find insightful, interesting and probably informative.
1) yes
2) probably not (I'm CHEAP!) but I'd ride in one
3) Better that than an ordinary Miami driver (smarter, too)
4) I think it will be good for the economy, prices for transportation of goods would eventually come down and the jobs lost to this technology
would be gradual enough.
5) I think there would be more problems with human driver hitting driverless car
6) I think it will take longer in some states than others, it looks like Navada will be first (probably 15-20 years)
7) 30 years
Yeah momonkey is a car guy, I am too. A lot more 'car guys don't come in this room.
I was a Euro car tech SU Carbs thru LH Jetronic FI.
I like driving for the fun of it, sometimes at fairly quick miles, just a tad over the limit, but only when I can, and I can because I live rural. Riding my motorcycle i worry about hitting a Moose much more than anything else. Albeit I am getting older and my reflexes are not what they once were, neither is my eye sight so for sheer speed I make sure no other vehicals are in view, and I know where driveways are or side roads on blind corners.
Still I can screw up. I tend to go look for cops hiding on the bikes and if i find none I will turn back for a special section of sick twisties. One time doing that a car had gone by me the other way. That car killed a 75 pound beaver, and i hit the beaver again! Damnned if they ain't greasy critters.
I got passed today by a driverless car doing about 80, weaving across the lines. The moron sitting where the driver was supposed to be was busy texting.
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