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I don't think it is going to work either. In one article I read they had above average number of collisions. I can not even imagine the Insurance rates those companies will have to face. I think this is about on par with drones delivering our packages. Looks good on paper but not in the real world.
Who knows really but I'm skeptical. In a busy city there's a lot of nuance between drivers with eye contact and hand motions that can make a difference, especially at intersections, or, swerving to miss a small animal, a racoon for example then taking out 4 people at a bus stop.
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@caseydog ,
It’s ok to disagree with me, most people do.
The thing that I really like about driverless little bubble cars is the elimination of bad behavior by human drivers.
I doubt I’ll see it in my lifetime, Americans invest so much of themselves in the type of vehicle they choose and the way they drive that change may come slowly.
I also think that the introduction of selfdriving little bubble cars will be the beginning of the end of private ownership of vehicles for millions of Americans.
Computers will make whatever decisions they're programmed to make.I'm cool with you disagreeing with me, too.
I am a car enthusiast, and made my living off of cars for the last 20 years. So I am obviously biased. I have driven cars on race tracks at very high speeds -- 167 MPH is my current fastest speed, in a car capable of about 220 MPH.
That changes a person in a way you can't unchange. There is no way I would ride in a car going that fast being driven by a computer, even using the best of the best Artificial Intelligence software. Why? Because computers can not experience fear. I've met a lot of racers, and they all tell me this. When you drive that fast for more than five minutes, and then slow down, your eyes are dry. Why, because you haven't blinked even once in that five minutes.
I can't explain this concept in a way that people understand. Please watch this video of 24 Hours of Lemans champion Alan McNish -- he puts it all into perspective. You will probably need to watch it multiple times -- I've watched it at least 20 times, and I still learn something new every time I watch it. Pay particular attention to the speeds he is talking about. I will bet you 1,000 bucks that there is not computer driven car that can do what he's doing in this video.
How does this apply to ordinary people driving to work every day? If I am diving my car down a road, and kid on a bicycle darts out between two park cars, I will drive my car into another car, I'll drive it into a brick wall, or a tree. I will total my car and injure myself if that will prevent me from running over that kid on the bike. Computers are not capable of making that kind of decision.
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A close friend of my parents had been in that sort of accident. He tried not to hit the four year old girl who rushed into traffic from between two parked cars. The friend smashed his car into other parked cars, but it wasn't enough to stop his car before it hit the little girl. He was just too close when she popped out from between cars. I was told that he had recurring nightmares about that, even forty years later.
