What are Thoughts/How Yall Going Act When the Self Driving Cars Hit the Streets in 2016?

[newworldafro]

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/cadillac-vows-self-driving-car-by-2016-—-but-industry-wants-legal-shield-first-172125123.html

Cadillac vows some self-driving tech by 2016, but industry wants legal shield too

By Justin Hyde September 8, 2014 1:20 PM Motoramic


That Cadillac announced Sunday it would build a type of self-driving technology called Super Cruise for a 2017 model-year vehicle isn't in itself that surprising. Several automakers, including Mercedes-Benz, Infiniti and Lincoln already have systems that can manage limited hands-free driving on highways, and Nissan has vowed to push for a fully autonomous car by 2020.

What's noteworthy is less what Cadillac and General Motors CEO Mary Barra said, but how: By billing it solely as a convenience feature, avoiding any suggestion that Super Cruise could make a driver safer. That's because behind the scenes, GM other automakers are concerned about the legal problems of self-driving cars and vehicle-to-vehicle tech — so much so that they have asked regulators for some kind of immunity if the industry is required to roll out devices that make decisions for the driver.

Got to love how the industry says its the 2nd Coming of the Model T.. a self driving car ... but wants legal shield and legal immunity to protect them from inevitable glitches that happens with any electronic/computerized/digital anything .... laugh...











(Already on that lobby tip to Congress)
The opportunities .............. the challenges .............. the bullshyt you know that will be entangled into this technology.

 

[Smoke]

Die from taking a nap thinking your car gonna drive you by itself, brehs

 

[sanityovar8ted]

I was almost excited

 

[newworldafro]

I was almost excited

What happened?

You can help your kids with their homework while driving"? Do your makeup while driving....safely. Add freaky stuff to your resume with your husband. Watch a movie without taking your eyes off ........ the screen. Let Jesus take the wheel. Sleep. Etc



Off course there is plenty of problems. Hackers. Viruses in the system. Essentially their going to be putting all types of lovely anti-privacy gizmos in these cars. Will it hit the guy on the bicycle or the public bus, when it has to decide which direction to turn in a inevitable crash situation?? How is the insurance companies going to treat you? All the jobs that will be lost when self driving cars take away work from 10s of millions of people in the U.S. and 100s of million around the world. Etc




It will be interesting to see how people are pulled over if this takes off.
Not Driving While Black, But Behind the Wheel Anyway Phenomenon?? NDWBBBWA

 

[Bunchy Carter]

It would take the fun out of driving

 

[sanityovar8ted]

What happened?

You can help your kids with their homework while driving? Do your makeup while driving....safely. Add freaky stuff to your resume with your husband. Watch a movie without taking your eyes off ........ the screen. Let Jesus take the wheel. Sleep. Etc



Off course there is plenty of problems. Hackers. Viruses in the system. How will it act with people that are driving. Essentially their going to be putting all types of lovely anti-privacy gizmos in these cars. How is the insurance companies going to treat you. All the jobs that will be lost when self driving cars take away work from 10s of millions of people in the U.S. and hundreds of million around the world. Etc

Cuz at first glance it solves my wanting a chauffeur problem cuz I really dont like driving and im not very good at it. Then I think of all the things that could go horribly wrong trusting my car to drive itself. Mf might get mad n off a bridge I go. Nah.

 

[newworldafro]

It would take the fun out of driving

The thing is...... the way these things go....they will make it more difficult for you to people to drive....I already see the script ... like insurance companies charging you more if you don't have self driving car.

 

[newworldafro]

Cuz at first glance it solves my wanting a chauffeur problem cuz I really dont like driving and im not very good at it. Then I think of all the things that could go horribly wrong trusting my car to drive itself. Mf might get mad n off a bridge I go. Nah.

This is exactly why I'm posing the question ....it's the Gift and the Curse x 1,000,000

 

[chkmeout]

Anon gonna have cats going reverse on the highway

 

[Oztradamus]

You're literally going to be Ghost riding the whip

 

[Tunez]

Do you still need to get a driver's license for this?

 

[newworldafro]

Do you still need to get a driver's license for this?

.. good question..... probably so though for manual override....

 

[Idaeo]

I can't wait for it. I've dreamt of this. I have a 100 mile roundtrip commute to work.

 

[Blackout]

Would I be able to drink and drive?

 

[Wild self]

A lot of taxi drivers and truck drivers are gonna be broke real soon.