Nevada Allows Google's Self-Driving Car: Super or Scary?

Trains have rails to guide them.

Tru, but ........... they STILL need human/machine intervention to tell them where they are going! ;)

it is called "Fly-by-wire." In fact, most military aircraft are so unstable that without the computer making adjustments the pilot would never be able the control the plane.

Yeah, my dad used to be a private instructor. He just got back into regular flying and seems to think anybody who has ever played around on a flight simulator can take off and land a private jet after a few lessons. His single engine Cessna and Bonanza are a whole different story.

Pretty sure the sky dosent look like LA traffic. Also pilot takes over upon approach, cause they can't trust the computer won't fail!

Landing a 5000 ton object at 140mph is a little more delicate work than getting granny from driveway to grocery store and back without running a red light or running someone off the road. But the car would serve a more important and efficient purpose for long distance travel. LA civilians are free to continue driving like dumbasses all they please.

I would never let a computer drive me in a car. If your not paying attention you could fall asleep. What happens if something goes wrong and you were sleeping. I have to restart my stupid cell phone everyday cause it freezes up there's no way I'm trusting a computer at 65mph!

That's cool. You don't have to let it drive you. But statistically it's going to save a lot of lives. I'm not worried about myself on the road... ever. I'm worried about other people pulling out in front of me or running red lights or texting and driving or drinking and driving. A computer will have fail-safes where at the very least the car will shut down and pull itself over. A person passing out from fatigue or just changing lanes without checking their blind spot won't. They'll slam right in to another car doing 60 and create a lot of carnage.

I'm sure you're not alone. There were always the old farmers who probably cursed the day their friends and family traded in the old horse and buggy for one of them shiny new automobiles a hundred years ago.

Imagine a freeway full of cars all driving at the same pace, now THATS scary, as boring if not more than being in a traffic jam. I personally dtive between 200 and 300 miles-a-day, mainly in Southern California and LA and would not not even consider this. It is still another of our basic freedoms which are threathened. A good thing that these robots will adhere strictly to the speed limits, thus eliminating speeding and thus depriving the state of a good chunck of revenue, a BIG argument against it and a potential new tax to compensate the loss.
I think it is scary because of the deprivation of our basic freedom but not on safety issues. To be perfectly honest, it is probably potentially safer than human controlled car, there is such a thing as human error but not computer error. Electronics are very reliable nowadays, but if they act up, they can be puzzling, isn't it Toyota?
It is also strange that many people find this a good idea while they frown on conductor or engineer-less trains, trams and metros. A rail environment is sooo much easier to control as there are not so many variables than a free roaming car on the streets.

I think it is "$upper" for the ones that invented and that $old it and it would be scary so lets go very very slow so the hurt would not be so bad and 'Super' as maybe the drunk drivers will take a hint! Take you hands off of the wheel of fortune!

SCARY, BUT SUPER! I THINK ALL "TRANSPORTERS" WILL BE SELF-DRIVEN FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS ONE DAY....

I would say it's a step above a Taxi..(the first self-driving car).
For blind people, every vehicle is self driving.
Before then,a train drove itself.For the most part.
I wonder what the car pays for insurance????????
Can I rent that and send it to the store and back?
Lazzzzzzzzzzzzzzy car.

Of course, Nevada elected Reid who drives the Senate without reading bills that are put forward... he only checks the party affiliation of the sponsor, and puts things on auto-pilot. Nevada is as likely a place to test this as any.

IGBENOBA OMOTOLA. CALEB UNIVERSITY LAGOS The idea of a car driving itself is very cool but on a second note, we should not relax and watch d car drive itself but we should also be at alert. Thanks to google, one can say cars can drive themselves.

I said super because there was no both super and scary and that's exactly what it is. Both super AND scary.

Rather have control of the car. That is why I drive manual cars instead of auto.

With how crappy people drive, no driver is better than a human driver.

Really? Imagine 100 cars all goin 85mph on the freeway like one perfect group. One car loses a transistor and all I can say is hold on its goin to get crazy. Yes they will be goin 85 or faster because it will be safe cause computers are perfect... Till they fail!

Yeah - the computer reacts like what? in almost a nanosecond - compared to at least 3-5 SECONDS for the average human?

Exactly, and that 3-5 seconds doesn't take into consideration applying makeup, texting, talking on a cell phone, eating a big mac, etc, etc.

However, self driving cars will never be marketable because people want and think they have a right to drive like a$$holes.

Yup on both points !

...Yeah, I wouldn't want such people driving me around either.

there is & never will be a replacement for the human element ...

I just hope they test rigorously before exposing the public to it.

Since I am not the best driver, I am sure this car would be a lot safer on the road than I am. I would absolutely love it.

Even with the glitches, I'd sooner trust a computer than a human being. And you can be assured that those glitches will be overcome, but human emotion will not.

I find nothing comforting in a machine that can and will have faults in it. I love my computer, but that doesn't mean it's the only thing holding my important documents. Every single one is copied and in a folder in my file cabinet incase my computer crashes.

If computerized machines crash daily, what makes this one any different (besides it having me and my family's lives in its...... hands)?

Nothing.

I'm sorry, but I really don't trust anything robotic and robots really creep me out. More so than clowns, and that's saying something, because I fear clowns. Maybe it has to do with the lack of conscience and soul in machines.

Although I wish most women and elder people would own one I'm not a big fan.

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It would be nice, but the system could malfunction at any given time. I'd rather stick to the manual cars until our science and technicians have improved.

ugh...

( apparently that's all I got ta say about that... )

while a self-driving car is awesome... the slightest glitch in the program running the car can cause detrimental effects... being that these run on wireless systems for gps, etc. anyone that has enough skill could hack these cars and do what they want with the programs

I would say it is super scary. As with all new technology and or inventions we need a period of time for improvement and getting the bugs out. I would not want phase one car but more like phase 8 or so that it has been tweaked for prior failings.

Like WIndows IE's, eh? lol

IE hasn't seen a great version since 4, I like Chrome and Firefox.

Too many chances for disaster!!!! Will want to see if this car actually "works" before I would feel safe in it.

Just like the thousands of airliners on autopilot, that fly the skies every hour of everyday, eh?

I hope Illinois allows it.