Nevada Allows Google's Self-Driving Car: Super or Scary?
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2012/05/10 13:00:00
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Google's been working on patenting a self-driving car for a while, and now it's fully licensed to drive. In Nevada, at least. According the The Associate Press, the car received a license to drive after demonstrating its safe driving on the Las Vegas Strip. For whatever reason, the license requires that two passengers be in the car while it's on auto-pilot, doubling the risk. On the other hand, it's the perfect solution for those worried about Google's Glass project.
DMV director Bruce Breslow explained, "They're designed to avoid distracted driving. When you're on the Strip and there's a huge truck with three scantily clad women on the side, the car only sees a box." Any drawbacks? He adds, "It gets honked at more often because it’s being safe." It sounds like an amazing invention, and so far it hasn't gotten into any accidents, but does a self-driving car sound a little scary to you?
DMV director Bruce Breslow explained, "They're designed to avoid distracted driving. When you're on the Strip and there's a huge truck with three scantily clad women on the side, the car only sees a box." Any drawbacks? He adds, "It gets honked at more often because it’s being safe." It sounds like an amazing invention, and so far it hasn't gotten into any accidents, but does a self-driving car sound a little scary to you?
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+8Kinda scary, actually. I love technology, but as anyone who deals with emerging techologies on a daily basis can tell you (and I do), there are always glitches and unforseen problems and scenarios. Always. For something like navigating a high speed vehicle down a road with changing traffic, weather, and road conditions, I'm not comfortable handing the wheel over to a computer yet. Anyone who has experience with GPS navigators knows that they are frequently wrong about routes and other trip data.
Don
If I could buy a car that knew the way home like the founding fathers horses, maybe I could write a document like the Declaration of Independence with the help of my friends. You do realize they reached many of their agreements over Madeira at the City Tavern in Philadelphia don't you?
This tech just screams for a Black Pontiac...
When you fly now, nearly the entire flight from takeoff to landing is done by computers. Pilots are there for emergencies and almost outdated.
There are thousands of Drone flights all over the world every day controlled from Creech AFB in Nevada. Again with little or no human interferance.
This was forecast back in the 60's, and is probably the future of cars.
Really? People said that they didn't trust the soundness of computers and GPS with regards to the first automobiles? Even though neither computers nor GPS technology had been invented yet? Remarkable.
Your analogy to air travel actually makes my point about having a human operator to take over and pilot in case of emergencies. But you forget that the reason why air travel can rely so heavily on computers is because there are thousands of human air traffic controllers on the ground tracking flight paths and weather conditions. How would you manage that with millions of drivers on the roads? Doesn't seem feasible to me.
And it was my understanding that drone flights are entirely human controlled even if remotely.
If you're pulled over and obviously drunk, can they really charge you with DRIVING under the influence?
"Ociffer, yes i've had too much to drink tonight, but it's okay. I'm not driving, the car is, and it's not drunk at all."