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Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption?
Maximum Prophet writes "Here's a thought: at the start, only rich people will be able to pay for a completely autonomous car. Auto-autos will only go the speed limit. Rich people don't like to go slow. Ergo, there won't be any market for automatic cars. Wait, I hear you say. The rich guy will just modify his car to go faster. But, if you go over the limit it's a fine, but to mess with the safety systems of even your own vehicle is probably a felony. Much more likely: the rich will get new laws passed to make it legal for automatic cars to go much, much faster than human-driven vehicles."
"...honking does no good, because robots do not care if you honk at them."
Not if the auto-pilot is an 800 series terminator.
Your post is built on assumptions on top of assumptions. Only people who are religious nut jobs, or politicians do this. Nobody likes either.
Ergo, you have no friends..
The only reasonable conclusion I can come to about the submitter..
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
...with a good car analogy?
Damn those rich people screwing us over again. Do you actually sit around all days trying to come up with new ways to be outraged at rich people or what?
Slashdot seems to have become the last, best hope for Communism on the Internet in the last couple of years. Probably as the technical content has declined, the libertarians have moved elsewhere.
Why the outrage at this? I mean, if we are going to compete with the Chinese (a constant theme both on /. and in the rest of society) then the first step is obviously to become better communists than them.
Pedestrians? There will be no pedestrians in the future, only autonomous scooters!
were I rich, I would be all over autonomous vehicle for a few reasons:
1) you can probably drive it yourself if you want to speed
2) I could hit the pub and get wrecked and have the car drive me home without worrying about getting arrested for DUI
Just don't try the voice activated car options...
"car, take me to the pub so i can get wrecked"
"Okay, we are going to wreck into the pub."
Pfft. You only think that because you're not an autonomous car.
How will pedestrians cross the street?
The pedestrians will have to be autonomous, too. it's all part of the plan.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Sure, my slowpoke car driving in circles will just create more congestion and emissions for everyone else...but fuck 'em! at least I didn't have to find a parking spot.
Bottles.
Rich people always change the laws for themselves
Here, fixed for you.
Religion: The greatest weapon of mass destruction of all time
Yes, but what happens when you use your autonomous car and there is a pedestrian there that wasn't on google maps???
Also, again, in the UK, pedestrians are often responsible for their own safety, and thus pay more attention.
In the USA, on the other hand, if pedestrians are stricken by vehicles and die, they come back to life; therefore, they're not responsible for their safety.
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The cars cheating, since they are google cars, so they have cameras on them updating google maps as they go. That's how they avoid the pedestrians.
Google's cars work just fine around pedestrians. They see them and respond appropriately.
So they built them with middle fingers and speakers that blast obscenities?
Now I'm interested...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
run my son over to the football field...
Do be careful how you issue these orders to your car.
Car: Reporting in, sir. Son successfully run over, awaiting further instructions from football field...
kurzweil_freak
5th Kyu Genbukan Ninpo/KJJR student
Be the darkness that allows the light to shine.
Autonomous teleporters?
I don't know that I trust them to get it right, I'd rather reassemble my own molecules...
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