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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Scary
+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.
car: only if you're buying.
Oops!
I do NOT wanna be in that thing when it malfunctions!
Maybe in ten years when the technology has been further perfected...
I bet some drunks are looking forward to that.
as someone now blind ..
I'm excited at this development ..
for it would provide the ability of those with disabilities ..
to MAINTAIN the same level of independence I enjoyed
BEFORE The blindness happened ..
(YES .. I MISS being able to go out and about whenever I wanted .. withOUT relying on someone else to get me there)
Now put that into a Truck/SUV Body so I can be truly independent in many more ways ..
and yes, that would be great indeed (IF the cost was within my budget)