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« on: October 16, 2016, 11:20:21 AM »
« edited: May 16, 2022, 06:54:38 PM by Cashew »

I have seen a few articles musing a ban on human driving. It may seen absurd now but once the majority join out of convenience, I can expect pretty intense public shaming to begin and many of the holdout will cave.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2016, 11:23:22 AM »

I will never step foot in one of those death traps.
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2016, 02:06:29 PM »

Driverless cars will become the norm. But people who still decide to get a driver's license will probably still be able to buy special cars that can "override" the autopilot. Especially for driving in the more rural areas.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2016, 04:44:54 PM »

I will never step foot in one of those death traps.

     Nor will I ever feel safe crossing the street anywhere near one.
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2016, 05:20:33 PM »

I can see them becoming required on limited access highways, that driving licenses will become both harder to obtain and easier to lose, and that insurance costs for manually driven vehicles will be much higher than for driverless cars. However, I don't foresee a total ban happening within the next fifty years. Beyond that time frame, technology is likely to change so much that speculation becomes pointless.
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2016, 05:55:25 PM »

Ideally driving any sort of car should be illegal, but at least it's possible to operate these things at least somewhat safely. Option 1.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2016, 06:09:50 PM »

A single building-block in the insurmountable wall we're building between us and ourselves.
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2016, 06:20:35 PM »

A single building-block in the insurmountable wall we're building between us and ourselves.

You're just delightful.
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2016, 07:07:56 PM »

A single building-block in the insurmountable wall we're building between us and ourselves.

You're just delightful.

He's not wrong.
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« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2016, 09:48:18 PM »

You'll have to pry my steering wheel from my cold dead hands. 

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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2016, 10:52:56 PM »

You'll have to pry my steering wheel from my cold dead hands. 

I'll leave that to the EMTs responding to your car crash.
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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2016, 10:56:46 PM »

A single building-block in the insurmountable wall we're building between us and ourselves.

You're just delightful.

The eff's that supposed to mean?
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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2016, 07:11:31 AM »

Can't wait, folks!  Free yourself of the warm fuzzies it gives you to think about humans being competent and embrace our future overlords.  They won't let anything bad happen to you!

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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2016, 07:57:19 AM »

I can see them becoming required on limited access highways, that driving licenses will become both harder to obtain and easier to lose, and that insurance costs for manually driven vehicles will be much higher than for driverless cars. However, I don't foresee a total ban happening within the next fifty years. Beyond that time frame, technology is likely to change so much that speculation becomes pointless.
I agree, word for word, with this.  I enjoy driving and will likely be one of the last people doing it, but I'd be ok with being chauffeured by a computer if I still have opportunity to drive on tracks or to use other manually operated motorized vehicles for fun.

I voted no, but inevitable.

(and it's always funny to see people that think tech is about to kill us all, "oh no!  the train is about to come through the screen and run us all over!", "DON'T TURN ON THAT ATOM SMASHER, YOU COULD MAKE A BLACK HOLE!", "if you set off a nuclear bomb, you'll set the atmosphere on fire".
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2016, 08:11:38 AM »

No.

Everything from Constellation-class starships to auxiliary shuttlecraft will need human captains, navigators, and engineers.
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« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2016, 12:05:54 AM »

I will never step foot in one of those death traps.

     Nor will I ever feel safe crossing the street anywhere near one.

I don't get the rationale here.  Driverless cars don't have perfect decision-making abilities...but neither do humans.  You cross in front of human-driven cars all the time, and those humans are often exhausted, distracted, and sometimes drunk.  On what basis do you assume human-driven cars are safer or superior?
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« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2016, 01:05:21 AM »

I will never step foot in one of those death traps.

     Nor will I ever feel safe crossing the street anywhere near one.

I don't get the rationale here.  Driverless cars don't have perfect decision-making abilities...but neither do humans.  You cross in front of human-driven cars all the time, and those humans are often exhausted, distracted, and sometimes drunk.  On what basis do you assume human-driven cars are safer or superior?

Religion and capitalism.
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« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2016, 01:29:32 AM »

I don't know that its inevitable, but I very much hope that it does become mandatory, at least during rush hour.
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« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2022, 06:57:08 PM »

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« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2022, 07:10:18 PM »

Hm... what if we were to make driverless cars even more efficient, and couple them together in long chains so as to increase fuel efficiency? We could also heighten them a bit, making it possible to stand while they're in motion. Also, for those of you who are worried about getting hit by them, it might prove useful to move these caravans onto separate roads away from other cars; that way they could run at higher speeds more safely. Just some interesting thoughts I've had.
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« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2022, 07:15:50 PM »

Maybe they’ll just stop issueing driver’s licenses to people who don’t already have them so that there won’t be any more human drivers once everyone who already has a license dies off and maybe young people will willingly switch to self-driving?
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« Reply #21 on: May 16, 2022, 07:40:30 PM »

I would much rather be around automobiles operated by machines than automobiles operated by people. How many people each year do you think are killed by automobiles as a result of human error?
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« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2022, 07:55:58 PM »

No need for them to be mandatory, but self-driving cars are the future. I can't wait, personally. I hate driving so much. It's one of my least favorite activities.
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« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2022, 08:32:28 PM »

It most definitely should not be mandatory, but with better development and better designing, I would be totally down to own and use a self-driving car. I would save so much energy without the need to drive.
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« Reply #24 on: May 17, 2022, 12:20:45 AM »

No, and I will never step inside one of those things.

If the US government tries to ban human-driven cars, the backlash will make the backlash to Prohibition look quaint by comparison.
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