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Be nice. :) I agree with Vanriderfan, "Utopias" are very rarely ideal societies, and are often totalitarian. Most utopias are in fact dystopias and are characterized by the tyranny of the majority, enforcement of uniformity, the suppression of individuality and the glorification of mediocrity. |
I find it curious that some here are so attached to the act of driving cars to the point of taking umbrage at the mere thought of self-driving vehicles. Everyone realizes that they still get to control where the self-driving vehicles go, right?!?
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You will be able to tell the car where you want to go, but not necessarily how to get there. I also imagine any creative detours or self exploration will be greatly discouraged. I have no problem with autonomous vehicles, just so long as it is left up to the discretion of the operator whether or not to disengage autonomous control and assume manual control over the vehicle. |
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True (not political) conservatives are funny people, as they are literally always wrong in the end when they want to stop progress. They similarly feared the steam trains in 1800's England would scare the horses, or cause women to miscarry. England built the steam trains anyway. They wanted cars to have someone walk ahead with a flag for safety, and that was ignored too. Now today's conservatives are scared about the end of the car, when if they were alive in 1920 they'd be the exact same people lamenting the end of horse based transportation and trying to stop the introduction of cars. |
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IMO - AV's and normal cars will not be able to coexist on the same road, or at least not without some sort of moderate separation. I.e. AV lanes or something of that sort. Anyway - this kind of AV talk is SO far down the road, if it happens at all, we are all just throwing darts at the board IMO. |
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I strongly suspect that the most stalwart opponents of self-driving cars are exactly the kind of people we'd be better off not having behind the wheel. In other words, people who view driving as a real-life video game. |
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I just prefer having the right to explore and to navigate around my city, my province and my country without having to rely on some form of artificial intelligence controlling me every step of the way. :hell: I agree that the real villains in this story in the end will be the insurance companies. I suspect that at some point in the future (20 years or so), insurance companies will refuse to cover you for any accidents incurred during manual control situations. They will be able to determine this by checking on your cars "black box" after the accident. This more than anything else will govern driving behaviour in the future. I think that while manual control options will still exist for some time, that eventually this feature will be used less and less frequently, usually only on low volume country roads, and eventually will disappear. Thankfully I will be long since dead by this point. |
“Hey Siri, turn left on Oak Street”. I can’t imagine it would be any harder than that.
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Even if the technology is perfected, I would never want a self-driving car. I, like millions of others, like driving. I like being 'in the driver's seat', speeding, running yellows, doing LA stops, U-turns, and basically anything else I can get away with yet I still have a flaw-less driving record. You name me anyone who doesn't do most of those things on a regular basis and I will show you a pathological liar.
Yes, I can see it being very beneficial for very long and boring cross-country car trips, the elderly, and the disabled and that is great but for most people I think it's an option that they won't employ. We have a love-hate relationship with our cars but it is very much a relationship. Of course the issue of insurance has yet to be tackled. Right now our insurance rates are personal...........the better you are, the less you pay. The driver is penalised when they cause an accident and not the passengers but with self-driving cars how can the driver be held as responsible when they too are now not a driver but a passenger? Does that mean, assuming you keep your car in good repair, the auto makers will be held financially responsibly for any accidents?. Good luck with that. |
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You're making a great case for mandating automation. At minimum in highly populated/high traffic areas. |
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And for personal driving it's likely to be owner pays. Which won't be a big deal because the likelihood of an AV causing an accident is lower than a human driver doing so. |
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This is all going to happen so slowly, if ever in our lifetimes, there's no need to worry anyway. By the time the "right" (not a right) to drive is taken away from people, we will be so comfortable with the technology that it won't be a big deal to move to something better. |
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