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Self-driving cars are getting into accidents in California
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Self driving cars will only work if all cars are self driving. Put a human in the mix and they have slower reactions, unpredictable behavior and a "I'm better than a robot" mentality that they will be the ones that will be causing the issues. If you take people out of the equation, traffic will flow.
In a perfect world.
People like to drive and be in control. With anything. Sometimes automation is good, but for the most part, people like to feel that they are in control of what ever it is they are doing.
A drawback of technology is also people. Software is written in a language that people can understand, that's why there are so many issues with it, too many words and symbols. If a computer could write it's own programming, the syntax would be a fraction of the size it is now. People get in the way of technology, but if technology had it's way, would we be living in The Matrix?
I love driving too, but sometimes a car that would drive itself would be handy.
In a perfect world.
People like to drive and be in control. With anything. Sometimes automation is good, but for the most part, people like to feel that they are in control of what ever it is they are doing.
A drawback of technology is also people. Software is written in a language that people can understand, that's why there are so many issues with it, too many words and symbols. If a computer could write it's own programming, the syntax would be a fraction of the size it is now. People get in the way of technology, but if technology had it's way, would we be living in The Matrix?
I love driving too, but sometimes a car that would drive itself would be handy.
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If you could have a self driving car, and be in it while completely wasted - I'd be first in line to buy one.
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Isn't that called a taxi? Sure there's still the human interface, but why buy a whole new car instead of about a thousand taxi fares?
IMHO a self-driver is only worth buying if you're using it all the time, and for me it'd be used so rarely it wouldn't be financially viable.
IMHO a self-driver is only worth buying if you're using it all the time, and for me it'd be used so rarely it wouldn't be financially viable.
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Well a taxi is a way of outsourcing your transportation.
Places like NY that people lives like sardines in a can, the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of a vehicle outweighs the benefits. Mass transit is the way to go and taxis is perhaps cheap to use.
Do not take me wrong, I am not an Amish that rather have a horse drawn buggy; love to have more than a 1 hp vehicle. But my take is, technology is to help and serve you, not the other way around. For example, cell phones are great, does all kinds of great things. When is integrated with let us say F-Book is actually a cancer. People stayed "connected" so much that now they need a self-driving car. A problem created from technology and solved again with more technology.
Places like NY that people lives like sardines in a can, the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of a vehicle outweighs the benefits. Mass transit is the way to go and taxis is perhaps cheap to use.
Do not take me wrong, I am not an Amish that rather have a horse drawn buggy; love to have more than a 1 hp vehicle. But my take is, technology is to help and serve you, not the other way around. For example, cell phones are great, does all kinds of great things. When is integrated with let us say F-Book is actually a cancer. People stayed "connected" so much that now they need a self-driving car. A problem created from technology and solved again with more technology.