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.
So do humans. And we've been doing it a lot longer than technology.
>You don't want to suffer any of these things when around people driving "analog" vehicles.
There isn't a day I don't hear about catastrophic accidents (caused by humans). What's your point?
Trains and planes can run themselves since they are for the most part unobstructed. A car driving itself on a highway. No.
I'm not going to block you (I'm not a bitch) but I'm done with the conversation.
But if worse comes to worse you can google the nearest hospital. That is if you have any fingers that work.
Here are some proud google users, at least for a little while.
Sounds great to me. I'd love to have a car that drives itself. I'm a mess behind the wheel and thus never drive. I know the functions, but have zero skill and no ability to learn. With something like this, we're another step closer to giving people like me the same freedom to move about as everyone else.