Driverless cars

[O.C.]

WTF is all that about, now they think it will be difficult to prove who's in control of a driverless equipped  car in the event of an accident    .

I like driving, and if I don't want to drive I can allus use a bus pass    or get on a train      

[virginiajim]

That's old man thinking right there...   

[snowy]

and think I'm a young 'un!
It's the insurance that gets me, you are not driving the car, so why have insurance?
Would it be the software design / operating system company, as their software is in control?
Or would it be the manufacturer of the car or component that causes or caused the issue?
Was there ever a prosecution over that death in a Tesla in the USA?
Believe auto-pilot was in use..........hmmmmmmmmm!     
Firm believer in that you have to demonstrate you can drive before let loose on the roads, but seeing the standard out there nowadays perhaps the time has come!

[Wookie]

Yep can just see this happening ... CAR SOFTWARE HACKED !!!
Imagine the mayhem and deaths ... FFS  as 2 wheel users I think it's going to kill a lot more of us .
Get behind the wheel pissed outta ya brain ..push a button and nae woorysh thish  car will hic get me home hic .
I am no technophobe but the horrors this is going to produce is worrying

[iamkwackers]

Just renewed me bus pass, preferable to using a driverless car, mind you with the traffic chaos in and around London the damn things will probably go into sleep mode   

[virginiajim]

Which brings back the old blue screen of death..

[PRD]

Driving is like sex everybody thinks they are good at it. But not every body is. Perhaps driverless cars is a good thing.

[Wookie]

Driving is like sex everybody thinks they are good at it. But not every body is.

Well I always end up happy

[patrick]

I listened to a presentation by the chief scientist from thr Trl, transport research laboratory a few days ago. This technology is further down the development route than is realised. Many elements are already in cars today. Interesting talk.

[davetherave]

Driving is like sex everybody thinks they are good at it. But not every body is.

Well I always end up happy

Loads of people can't reverse park, does that mean that they can't reverse shag ?? 

[Wookie]

Loads of people can't reverse park, does that mean that they can't reverse shag ?? 

I believe the lady's call it " Backing it in "   as for reverse congical rites .. well ah suppose it's down to the size of the appendage

[SirToU]

Its I Robot.....  it'll become sociably unacceptable to drive, but you have the right to have offspring that can't read or right normally!

Just hope Darwin cuts in early enough to be like the matrix, where you can liquidiize them and feed it back to the incredibly stupid who doesn't think they have been playing with our food sources for years!....

Sorry, I'll shut up now!

Neil

[Wookie]

Its I Robot.....  it'll become sociably unacceptable to drive, but you have the right to have offspring that can't read or right normally!

Just hope Darwin cuts in early enough to be like the matrix, where you can liquidiize them and feed it back to the incredibly stupid who doesn't think they have been playing with our food sources for years!....

Sorry, I'll shut up now!

Neil

WoOk finks the original film were the dead were re processed into Campbell pea broth was Soyent Green 
It's all a clever global idea ya know all these Playstation an pewters and smart x an y fones  ...
Its to keep the natives off the street ..entertained . Flabby and unfit . And if you need for some strange reason to leave your abode . The pewter drives ya Fekin car
See its a plot 

[Boomer]

I wish everyone had self driving cars.
Then I could sleep or read through my commute.
That said I will miss riding the bike.

As for danger, I'd far rather ride through a city full of computer driven cars than one full of the current crop of self centred incompetent so called drivers. On my 60 mile morning commute I see on average 4 bonehead moves (potential crashes) and at least 20 people fiddling with ther phone/satnav at 70mph. Humans are all (yes, this includes you,... and me) utterly crap at driving compared to even the current crop of driverless cars and they are getting better very rapidly,...and what's more the driverless cars are 99.99% predictable.

Driving/riding can be an escape and fun if it's done for leisure.
When you do it for a living or else to get to where you earn your living it just plain sucks.

[pross]

I agree boomer.
I drive a double decker into Birmingham most days and In rush hour when stuck in the traffic on the duel carriage way the amount of lane changing and close call to move a car space or two is unreal.
I pass the time counting people on the phone and such like  .
It probably takes 20 mins to half hour to go a couple of miles my record at the moment is 10 on the phone 1 fellow shaving and 1 woman doing her hair and makeup