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Are you Afraid of Self Driving Vehicles?

by DURABLEOILCOM
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Are you Afraid of Self Driving Vehicles?

http://www.autoblog.com/2016/03/01/aaa-self-driving-cars-study

"AAA says 3 in 4 American drivers are afraid of self-driving cars"
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I want a car that drives to the store & picks up groceries that I order online.
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    • Profile picture of the author HCFGrizzly
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I want a car that drives to the store & picks up groceries that I order online.
      And also does house chores when it comes back.
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    • Profile picture of the author Everblue
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I want a car that drives to the store & picks up groceries that I order online.
      As a matter of fact this will be quite feasible sooner or later.
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  • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
    Originally Posted by DURABLEOILCOM View Post

    Are you Afraid of Self Driving Vehicles?

    AAA says 3 in 4 American drivers are afraid of self-driving cars

    "AAA says 3 in 4 American drivers are afraid of self-driving cars"
    Give it ten years and it will be 3.8 out of 4!

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  • Profile picture of the author PaulSch
    Not so much afraid of the vehicle but the idiot driving it
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  • Profile picture of the author HelenVendo
    I don't like when I don't control the situation. But in fact it's much more safe, because people make mistakes more frequently than computers.
    So maybe it's our future.
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by HelenVendo View Post

      I don't like when I don't control the situation. But in fact it's much more safe, because people make mistakes more frequently than computers.
      So maybe it's our future.
      True, that they will be safer, but if l drove like a little old lady with poor eyesight, l would drive safer as well!

      And most likely p*** off other drivers around me, and getting smashed in by drivers getting p*** off by snail drivers!

      They haven't tested this in the real world, just tested it on mountain roads, with pristine computers and cars!

      In the real world with aging computers and sensors, and dirt and mud, etc. the numbers won't look so good!

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Useless fact: Did you know UPS plans their delivery routes to make mostly right hand turns?

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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Did you hear about that recent google car test? The CAR was deemed to be "partially at fault". Although the bus SHOULD have allowed the car to come in, I would say the car was fully at fault because IT is the one that deviated its course and, had it not done so, the bus would have been deemed blameless, etc....

    Anyway, google programmed another stupid half hearted rule into the automaton code. The moral? Do NOT play chicken, or even be discourteous, to a google car that could cause damage, UNLESS YOU ARE DRIVING A BIG VEHICLE!

    BTW they are getting a pass because the passenger, that likely has NO valid reason to make the assertion, says he would have made the same assessment. HOW could you know unless you had a normal vantage point of EVERYTHING, and were paying 100% attention to the road? Besides, he is biased!

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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      Did you hear about that recent google car test? The CAR was deemed to be "partially at fault". Although the bus SHOULD have allowed the car to come in, I would say the car was fully at fault because IT is the one that deviated its course and, had it not done so, the bus would have been deemed blameless, etc....

      Anyway, google programmed another stupid half hearted rule into the automaton code. The moral? Do NOT play chicken, or even be discourteous, to a google car that could cause damage, UNLESS YOU ARE DRIVING A BIG VEHICLE!

      BTW they are getting a pass because the passenger, that likely has NO valid reason to make the assertion, says he would have made the same assessment. HOW could you know unless you had a normal vantage point of EVERYTHING, and were paying 100% attention to the road? Besides, he is biased!

      Steve


      Did you hear about the one where Google self driving cars have driven over 1 million miles without causing any accidents?

      I don't know any people that have driven a million miles and never caused an accident.
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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        It is IRONIC that THAT is probably one of the MAJOR reasons the cars do so well. Itis hard to make a judgement mistake if there are no judgments to be made. Judgments have to be made when there are movable obstacles on the road that can't communicate, that are in your path. Almost 100% of those are humans in vehicles.

        Steve
        Yes, a brand new car, with pristine sensors and computers, driving like an L Plater, should rack up some impressive stats, and not so impressive ones!


        Originally Posted by HCFGrizzly View Post

        And also does house chores when it comes back.
        If it doesn't do the washing l ain't buying it!

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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Did you hear about the one where Google self driving cars have driven over 1 million miles without causing any accidents?

        I don't know any people that have driven a million miles and never caused an accident.
        I hate to break it to you, but that happens EVERY DAY! But do they have a car that has driven over 1 million miles with no accident? I DOUBT it! And such cars can drive ON THEIR RULES! Humans have a lot of other things to contend with.

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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by DURABLEOILCOM View Post

    Are you Afraid of Self Driving Vehicles?

    AAA says 3 in 4 American drivers are afraid of self-driving cars

    "AAA says 3 in 4 American drivers are afraid of self-driving cars"
    It is IRONIC that THAT is probably one of the MAJOR reasons the cars do so well. Itis hard to make a judgement mistake if there are no judgments to be made. Judgments have to be made when there are movable obstacles on the road that can't communicate, that are in your path. Almost 100% of those are humans in vehicles.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    How long after the first self-driven cars hit the market before we read a story about a hacker taking it over and driving the car into a building or something similar?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      How long after the first self-driven cars hit the market before we read a story about a hacker taking it over and driving the car into a building or something similar?
      That's already been done without self driving cars.






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