Self Driving Cars

[Monster]

Anyone had any experience with these.
Just caught a cool news clip on the FF91 so curious as to your thoughts.

 

[winos5]

They are the future, according to the "experts" on talk radio car shows. The advances will be exponential in the next 20 years according to the same pundits.

I'm not so sure. I certainly don't trust the tech at this point.

 

[LordKOTL]

Considering the assholes that somehow got a driver's license, I'm all for self-driving cars.

 

[Burque]

The wave of the future. In a few generations vehicle ownership will be thought of as stupid.

 

[fatbeard]

They are the future, according to the "experts" on talk radio car shows. The advances will be exponential in the next 20 years according to the same pundits.

I'm not so sure. I certainly don't trust the tech at this point.

Lives in a world where 2% of car accidents are due to car malfunction and more than 90% of accidents are at least partially due to human error; trusts people more than "tech."

Makes sense.

 

[Ares]

At least all the people who text/drive can let the CPU drive for them.... should save alot of lives actually.

 

[CallMeYams]

Only thing im concerned about is if their is an accident with self driving cars is how excactly insurance would work if its the cars fault. Whos at fault?

 

[Urblock]

I'll keep control of my vehicle. Didn't some guy get killed when his self driving car didn't see a large truck and now that guy is dead. Big price to pay so he could watch a movie while on a highway.

 

[Monster]

Only thing im concerned about is if their is an accident with self driving cars is how excactly insurance would work if its the cars fault. Whos at fault?

As the owner operator I'm sure it will be ours.

 

[Crystallas]

Only thing im concerned about is if their is an accident with self driving cars is how excactly insurance would work if its the cars fault. Whos at fault?

It would be assessed on a case by case basis. But the owner of the car would be at fault. And there is a such thing as 'shared fault' where more than one party(party being the whole package of man and machine for each automobile) would share some kind of fault. I suspect with automated vehicles, more shared fault cases will arise. ie: two cars blow a red light making left turns and hit each other head on. That is just one example of a shared fault.

 

[Crystallas]

I'll keep control of my vehicle. Didn't some guy get killed when his self driving car didn't see a large truck and now that guy is dead. Big price to pay so he could watch a movie while on a highway.

Some people were abusing auto-pilot on their cars. These are not self-driving. Autopilot is a feature that corrects the car when human input is removed for an extended period of time while in motion. It attempts to maintains the lane and distance. So of course, some morons had to take these features to extremes, all of which was against the law. The Google self-driving cars are another thing, but those were operating well bellow the statistical failure rates of human beings. So even if that one accident happened, it's still 20 less than would have happened, if you equate that to the norm.

That being said. I love driving and building cars. I hope this doesn't make it systematically illegal or highly unaffordable to insure/operate a manually controlled vehicle in my lifetime.

 

[Tater]

I can see a ton of lawsuits against manufacturers after accidents.

 

[Burque]

I can tell you that State Farm is investing heavily in the Self Driving Car market, simply because they know their Auto Insurance division is at risk from what the future of self driving cars will bring.

Also, just because there has been one death and a couple of minor accidents from self driving cars so far. This technology is in its infancy it will become much much better in the next decade and the "I will keep control of my car" argument won't hold much water when it will be proven that "Controlling" your car is actually much much more dangerous than letting the robot drive.

 

[fatbeard]

It's a bad time to be trucker.

 

[Ares]

It's a bad time to be trucker.

Yet another semi-skilled job technology may well kill or severely reduce in the coming decades.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Yet another semi-skilled job technology may well kill or severely reduce in the coming decades.

Just wait till AI hits and kills us all.

 

[Burque]

Just wait till AI hits and kills us all.

No, that is when we all just get to chill and play video games, or rather, have to chill and play video games.

 

[fatbeard]

Yet another semi-skilled job technology may well kill or severely reduce in the coming decades.

Yep, that's about 2 million jobs that will disappear over the next two decades.

 

[Ares]

Just wait till AI hits and kills us all.

We are struggling to get them smart enough to drive cars or clean houses.... lol it's gonna be a while before Skynet

 

[Scoot26]

I imagine at first they'd still need a person in the vehicles, so at first theyll all get massive pay cuts, then eventually the job will be eliminated.