Self driving vehicles

[fedup]

Raise your hand if you believe you need a self driving vehicle.

Would you agree that driving while drunk or high would cause you to be less attentive?

Would you agree that letting your car drive while you play paddy cake would cause you to be less attentive?

 

So should we really have self driving vehicles driving up and down the road????

What happens if AI takes over the wheel????

[Petee]

Check out the accidents that have been involved in self-driving cars.  They get covered up or "lost" in the news services pretty quickly.

[Polo]

Definitely don't want a self driving vehicle.  Nor artificial intel.  And yes, accidents.  They haven't perfected those vehicles at all.  There are too many decisions that need made while driving and too many unexpected things that can happen on the road that have to be managed by the human brain.

[fedup]

Have we become a nation of way too many lazy idiots?????

 

 

Do you remember this???

2009 way before the self driving cars but certain parts of the car were controlled by computers.

 

SANTEE, Calif. — The Friday night trip began at the end of a week’s vacation, a family outing to a women’s college soccer game just days before Mahala Saylor, 13, would begin life as a high school freshman.

The trip ended in August with a 911 call and the fiery wreck of a loaner Lexus sedan, killing Mahala, her parents, Mark and Cleofe Saylor, both 45, and her uncle, Chris Lastrella, 38.

Even veteran investigators said it was the worst crash they had ever seen.

Today, Fe Lastrella, mother of Cleofe Saylor and Chris Lastrella and grandmother of Mahala, is to tell members of a congressional committee about her family and question whether a floor mat trapping the gas pedal — as regulators say they believe — is the sole reason for the accident.

Rarely, if ever, has one family’s fatal crash had such an impact, forcing the world’s largest automaker to admit thousands of sudden-acceleration complaints, recall more than 8 million vehicles worldwide and answer growing questions from Congress and consumers about its safety record.

 

They were in a Lexus on loan from their Toyota dealer, a car they did not know had been reported by its previous borrower as speeding out of control.

 

It’s his voice, captured in a 911 call made 49 seconds before the crash, that has been the key evidence so far of why the Lexus ES350 borrowed from a dealer sped out of control.

“Our accelerator is stuck. We’re on 125,” Lastrella says.

911 dispatcher: “What are you passing?”

“We’re going 120 at Mission Gorge. And we’re in trouble. We can’t … there’s no brakes. End freeway a half mile.”

Lawyers for the families say that by the time Chris Lastrella dialed 911, they believe, Mark Saylor had done all he could to shut down the vehicle. They didn’t ask dispatchers for help or how they could control the car; Mark Saylor had the vehicle’s warning flashers on and may have been trying to warn other drivers.

The call ended with the men saying “hold on” and “pray,” before the sound of impact with the bank of a dry riverbed. The car went airborne and rolled twice before landing and catching fire, likely from its white-hot brakes.

https://www.twincities.com/2010/02/23/a-lexus-barreling-out-of-control-a-frantic-911-call-a-family-dead/

 

 

Hey people, the Jetsons was a cartoon, not a lesson in life. 

[fedup]

Automakers reported nearly 400 crashes of vehicles with partially automated driver-assist systems, including 273 involving Teslas, according to statistics released Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators.

Then the article yakked yakked yakked for awhile then revealed this

NHTSA also said that five people were killed in the crashes involving driver-assist systems, and six were seriously hurt.

 

Do you think they are already trying to downplay their great invention?????

 

 

Fully autonomous vehicles: 130 crashes, none serious

NHTSA's order also covered companies that are running fully autonomous vehicles, and 25 reported a total of 130 crashes. Google spinoff Waymo led with 62, followed by Transdev Alternative Services with 34 and General Motors-controlled Cruise LLC with 23.

 

TECHNOLOGY

Self-driving Waymo cars gather in a San Francisco neighborhood, confusing residents

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle unit of Alphabet Inc., said it has more than 700 autonomous vehicles in its fleet. The company is running a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Arizona and testing one in California. The company said all the crashes happened at low speeds, with air bags inflating in only two of them.

In 108 of the crashes involving fully autonomous vehicles, no injuries were reported, and there was only one serious injury. In most of the crashes, vehicles were struck from the rear.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1105252793/nearly-400-car-crashes-in-11-months-involved-automated-tech-companies-tell-regul#:

 

Ban the guns, don't worry about the lazy people in their lazy cars.