Autonomous driving will be so great. Putting a minibar in my glove box.

lawyers who bring up some case only to tell you that they cant talk about it.


welll why did you just unnecessarily bring it up to begin with!

Then you can safely tap around here instead of doing it while driving a semi.

+1

Driving is a freedom many people cherish, just like some people cherish that freedom to own guns. The majority of people will oppose self driving cars and will do so for a long time.

This exactly ^^^

It is the same reason some of us prefer stick shift...some actually enjoy the experience of being connected to the drive.

If I wanted a boring trip with a computer at the controls, then I would take a train...

Train not even close to the same thing.

I think it stopped because people were walking along the side of the road. Which raises the question of whether it slams on the brakes when a kid on a bike swerves in front of you, and does it also slam on the brakes when a garbage bag blows into your path? How does it react to people in the bike lane?

Does it know how to miss potholes? How would a bunch of self-driving cars handle a situation when three lanes on the interstate reduce to one? Does it know the proper time to change lanes from center lane to right lane to make your right turn? Or are you stuck in the right lane for miles in anticipation of that turn? I dunno. I just think there are so many driving decisions ...that it would be very difficult to automate all of them.

Chippa,

Self-driving cars are going to be better equipped than humans to handle all those situations.

Think about how much driving data there will be for self-driving car software to learn from vs scenarios a single individual human driver encounters.

Will self-driving cars be better at these situations than a great experienced driver with excellent eyesight and reaction time who is paying 100% attention to driving? Maybe not, or at least maybe not for a while. But they'll be way better than almost all drivers.

I guess. I probably should be more optimistic. Won't be that long before I'll be old enough to be okay with letting the car drive for me.

I agree..and i am looking forward to this freedom very soon. I just got my license

Actually we're going to need to not have a wheel at all because it's more like people take over makes something go wrong--where it would've been handled just fine if they hadn't.

Read a book, watch a movie, take a nap. The % of people out there enjoying driving and feeling "connected" to the road is miniscule compared to porton of roadraging maniacs and distracted, terrible drivers (not even counting the murderous drunks).

Everything about this commercial

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Are you under the impression that "how car behaves in snow" is some sort of mystical question that will be perpetually unanswerable? Do you really think having moron humans operating vehicles in such conditions is a good idea?

These are literally like the easiest problems to solve in software.

FWIW, when all cars are self driving, you don't really need lanes at all. DUCY

god so much this. the idea that we're going to keep letting thousands of people needlessly die because some selfish ****tards will have their egos smudged is absolutely disgusting.

See this is exactly the problem with human drivers. You actually think it's worthwhile or better or *proper* to speed by 15 mph in the left lane for one or two minutes so that you can take your exit ahead of a few other cars that may not even take that exit, and then you'll wait at the exact same red light at the end of the exit anyway! Plus maybe you can find some anti-yielding activist who'll tailgate the rig in front of him to block you from getting over--so you can floor it instead! And, again, same light at the exit.

Dude, does the computer know to treat the commute as a race increasing everyone's risk for no benefit?

A: No. That's. Why. We. Want. It.

People will still be able to take their weekend cruise in the countryside, but the daily rush hour bs will go away.

Some of you sound like you'd be absolutely miserable to ride in a car with.

I mean, even if you don't want to drive an autonomous car, you should want *everyone else* to be driving one. When you signal to change lanes or approach a merge, an autonomous car WILL YIELD every time instead of perhaps having some *interesting* theory on the subject. Seriously, I do a lot of long interstate commutes and 90% of the accidents are on-ramps where several people obviously said, "**** you" rather than slow down, slightly, for a second or two.

holding the door for someone and in return they say nothing and dont acknowledge it.

maybe 3-5 seconds of brief internal rage after.

I don't hate driving, but lol at preferring that act over being able to kick back and read a book or watch a show or whatever during your commute or a road trip.

I'm guessing that the median answer to "rate your driving skills from 0 to 10, where 5 indicates average" is probably 7.

drivers that sit in the left lane going the speed limit or slower, then when you pass them on the right, or they finally move to the right to allow you to pass, give you the finger like youre in the wrong

That probably should upset you a bit. Someone who is being the ******* in a given situation thinking that someone else is being the ******* is a rapidly expanding problem in society. Said another way, other people's lack of taking personal responsibility where appropriate should piss you off.

5-10 years and im only saying 10 as a hedge