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Re: Driverless cars
[Re: Excoriator]
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21st Mar 2018 9:59am
21st Mar 2018 9:59am
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I wonder how many accidents would occur if you took Humans totally out of the equation? The most efficient TRAIN I've ever travelled on is the Aerotrain in Kuala Lumpor airport, Malaysia. No driver, no problems. Autonomous cars are coming, we'll just have to learn to accept them, or should we all go back to horses and carts?
Fetere sum, ego sum Ergo
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Re: Driverless cars
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21st Mar 2018 12:05pm
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So its ok for SEMI-autonomous cars to kill people? It didn't, the driver did or the pedestrian did, same as a conventional car and which happens far too regularly. This happened in Arizona where there are jaywalking laws, ie cars have right of way except at specific crossing points. In this instance the car issued warnings to the driver and he ignored them. If this had been an autonomous car it would not have issued warnings it would have stopped. There have been no deaths caused by an autonomous car yet.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates
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Re: Driverless cars
[Re: diggingdeeper]
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21st Mar 2018 1:19pm
21st Mar 2018 1:19pm
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In this instance the car issued warnings to the driver and he ignored them. If this had been an autonomous car it would not have issued warnings it would have stopped.
The link I posted said: The Uber had a forward-facing video recorder, which showed the woman was walking a bike at about 10 p.m. and moved into traffic from a dark center median.
"It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode,” Sylvia Moir, the police chief in Tempe, Arizona, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
"The driver said it was like a flash, the person walked out in front of them," Moir said, referring to the backup driver who was behind the wheel but not operating the vehicle. "His first alert to the collision was the sound of the collision." As for polls, it depends which one you read. The American ones have low support, but this British one is more favourable: http://www.ukautodrive.com/survey-finds-uk-public-still-open-minded-about-self-driving-vehicles/
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Re: Driverless cars
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21st Mar 2018 4:13pm
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One thing that is often overlooked in the negative reports on autonomous cars is that you will no longer need a driving licence or driving test, this could considerably reduce the number of pedestrians. Indeed it could DD.That is exactly what I am worried about!
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Re: Driverless cars
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21st Mar 2018 7:27pm
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thing that worries me, many a time I've been in Wales or Scotland and my phone loses gps same with some tunnels, and if run by computer how long before someone hack it, then it's just a big remote control car, as for driveless trains they are on rails so not much can go wrong.
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AF14 UGH
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