Using cruise control, you can set the [Tesla] to a particular speed and it will accelerate and turn within a lane in a straight line. It will dodge cars attempting to swerve into your lane, objects that it can see, pedestrians or fellow drivers simply trying to swerve into you because you’re an obnoxious prick with a Tesla blasting Party Rock Anthem.
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It can’t, however, direct you along every street...
— The Guardian
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Think the autonomous car will be revolutionary and save lives…but a death knell for public mass transit.
Wonder what the ramifications of the first pedestrian fatality to autodrive will be.
Who's liable?
I don't think this negates the social, financial, environmental, and health reasons young people are abandoning cars, driverless or not. Socially they are isolating. Financially, they are a drain. Environmentally, the world can't sustain every household having 2.5 cars. The health reasons are the most obvious...get out and walk!
BTW, even if you're cool with all that, driving sucks in any area with an economic pulse.
We were talking about liability for vehicular manslaughter while in a autonomous car in the office this morning. Other issues that came up were drinking and driving / drinking while driving, car sex, state troopers and sheriffs with speed traps, ability to speed in general or break other laws while driving, control of autonomous car by law enforcement / military, necessity of stop signs or lights, and the list goes on.
It's going to be wild watching all of this get sorted out.
Aesthetically removing the need for road signs / stop lights would be a large positive to me.
Getting your car hijacked by a hacker would be a large negative though...
The more you give up control to "the cloud", the more you are beholden to it. Having your every move, utterance, pulse rate monitored...what could go wrong?!?
Think I'll wait a few years while they get the bugs out....
Man, driving is one of the joys in life! And also one of the last vestiges of freedom... If a corporation controls where you go, what tv u see, your boring IKEA house, what freedom is left?
"I'm sorry, your local organic grocery store is not preferable... taking you to WalMart instead"
the future is scaaaaaaary
on the other hand, i trust the hackers. if a car takes me to walmart against my will, or lack of good encryption allows supervision that i haven't explicitly agreed to, then i want some help getting in to the software to fix it. the "cloud" wants to be free. #freethecloud
happy halloween!
"I'm sorry, your car is being rerouted from the Shigeru Ban lecture to Bjarke's Happy Fun Time w/ Legos or Something"
one interesting aspect of autonomous driving is the notion of car companies switching to other models of ownership. speaking to a number people at audi, they're in the conceptual stages of a share ownership model, inspire in part by streaming concepts where the customer never actually owns their vehicle.
the idea is that cars spend something link 98% of the time empty and stationary. one fully autonomous car, controlled centrally by the car company could drive a huge number of people around. this would be a huge increase of manufacturing efficiency as we're currently building cars that mostly just sit around.
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