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The Car That Knows When You'll Get In an Accident Before You Do
aurtherdent2000 sends word about a system designed to monitor drivers to determine when they're about to do something wrong. "I'm behind the wheel of the car of the future. It's a gray Toyota Camry, but it has a camera pointed at me from the corner of the windshield recording my every eye movement, a GPS tracker, an outside-facing camera and a speed logger. It sees everything I'm doing so it can predict what I'm going to do behind the wheel seconds before I do it. So when my eyes glance to the left, it could warn me there's a car between me and the exit I want to take. A future version of the software will know even more about me; the grad students developing what they’ve dubbed Brains4Cars plan to let drivers connect their fitness trackers to the car. If your health tracker 'knows' you haven’t gotten enough sleep, the car will be more alert to your nodding off."
I will never use a product that monitors me with a camera.
(Yes I put tape over my laptop's camera, and no I don't own a smart phone.)
Because I clicked Preview.
Umm, how about getting it developed by people who have quite a number of years driving experience instead. What an inexperienced driver might think is important might not be so to an experienced one and vice verca.
And no doubt when the insurance investigators get access to the data as part of the fine-print on your contract, and decide you were not doing exactly what they believe is correct in a given situation, then you will be at fault.
Let alone once the police decide that data is theirs also.
Let the fun times roll.
The camera does seem like a stupid idea, when the information could just be displayed constantly. Just project a warning onto the side window and rear view mirror when a car is in your blind spot or likely to enter it momentarily.
They are already talking about replacing wing mirrors with cameras. Less air resistance, wider viewing angle. That seems like a better, less invasive solution.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
But how is Tracy supposed to update her facebook profile and send tweets on her phone and check her make up in the mirror if she has to worry about irritating distractions like situational awareness and car control? Please , Think Of The Chi^H^H^H Millenials!
What happens if you are listening to a radio play while driving ... and a scary bit happens so your face reflects this. Will it put the brakes on because it thinks that there is something wrong ?
It's so much nannying, that you might as well already make the car fully autonomous. Semi-autonomous seems like a half assed waste of effort.
I wonder what kind of warning will it give if a cat jumps into the drivers seat?
Stop trying to fix the weakest part of the driving chain, and replace it.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
My car (Toyota Avalon) already has a blind spot monitor. It shows a notification in my sideview mirrors when a car is in my blind spot and beeps and flashes if I put on my turn signal to change lanes and a vehicle is detected. Very neat.
bad TV, bad idea.
She's going to do that anyhow. Just last week, I saw a local story about a guy who lost control of his car while using his smartphone, and naturally, killed someone else and injured several more in their car instead of offing himself. Personally, I know I'm a good and safe driver (no tickets or accidents in decades), but I have very little confidence in others' driving. I want other people to have these systems in their cars, because it's more likely to save my life than the idiot that's busy tapping away on their phone while on the freeway.
I'm not sure if the camera pointed back at the driver is going to catch on, because I think people will be a bit uncomfortable having their car continuously watching them, but I think the outward-facing systems are going to be standard equipment in fairly short order. These are all just slow, incremental changes towards self-driving cars. We'll eventually be giving up more and more manual control of our cars, and as a result, driving is going to become safer and safer.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
"We'll eventually be giving up more and more manual control of our cars, and as a result, driving is going to become safer and safer."
Driving is already pretty damn safe in the west given the total number of journeys made and distances travelled. Its only the bedwetting health and safety hysterics who would have us believe otherwise.
Personally I have no intention of giving up manual control of my car and I'm quite happy with the teeny tiny risk that entails. Besides, people who don't want to drive already have a number of options - taxi, bus, train.
Most modern vehicles record telemetry already. That black box data can be used to help determine what the cause of an accident was. This is just an evolutionary step in that technology.
You could see it as bad, but you could also see it as making it easier to prove you weren't at fault when an accident occurs. I personally wouldn't want it, but it's the sort of thing one should examine from all sides before making a snap judgement. I'd find it particularly interesting to install in police cars. Oh, you were doing 90kph in a 50 zone with your police cruiser with your lights off? The system has just issued you a speeding ticket.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
or it gets slower and slower as time goes on, as my iPhone seems to do. Or unless someone hacks into it and inserts malware that slows it down.
it has a camera pointed at me from the corner of the windshield recording my every eye movement
Unless you're looking over your shoulder to execute a reverse maneuver from a parking space or driveway, which is generally good form in driving and encouraged in DMV training, then its useless.
it can predict what I'm going to do behind the wheel seconds before I do it.
Unless the collision is due to a preventable combination of excessive speed, poor visibility and road conditions, and insufficient vehicle maintenance in which case the system isnt helpful. youll also find a high rate of false positives for the following:
1. glancing toward the radio and climate controls.
2. large vehicles. Trucks, semis, and even imposing suv's can cause subconscious distraction from the road and unpredictable eye movement.
3. rain, snow, anything that hits the windshield in general, causes strange eye movement. squinting, blinking, you name it. There is an entire physiology to why we subconsciously act the way we do when something hits a windscreen.
4. Your phone. buzzing, beeping, will cause subconscious visual abberation and deviation. 5. entering and exiting tunnels causes pupil tracking issues, eye movement, and a range of other light sensitive problems for most tracking rigs. you actively have to compensate for a pulsing, somewhat unpredictable level of cockpit light. how the human eye does this is amazing to me.
So in terms of production automobiles, we've gotten exceedingly good at keeping soft, warm, impact prone parts of the human body from being badly injured or damaged. 8-12 airbags are fairly standard on most cars these days. Autobraking is a fairly simple technology as well, so expect to see that on more models. But the number one reason why safety in a car continues to decline is speed. Drivers routinely make false assumptions that roads are 'rated for' speeds higher than the limit, or that its casual and normal to go faster, or that their car is 'capable' of faster speeds when they dont realize the limiting factor in he equation is the human. human reaction times are fine for anything less than 9.8m/s^2, but above that we're horrible. speed limits factor in surviveability for both vehicles as well, not just your Canyonero SUV. Inattentive drivers? sure, but the technology has existed in Mercedes for 10 years, and lane assit warning tech helps catch the glaring problems with most drivers. Disclaimer: the company i work for has tried optical tracking in the past.
Good people go to bed earlier.
My car has a blind spot monitor as well. It's really really advanced. It will never fail as there's no electronics to break. It's called a side window. Yup, one quick glance over my shoulder and I know if there's somebody in my blind spot.
And before somebody chimes in about taking your eye off the road in front of you, the time to look away from the road, find any other indicator, focus on it, remember what it means and then look back takes about the same amount of time as a glance over your shoulder, so there's no real safety advantage to indicators over windows.
It's not particularly safe, though, plus each accident costs more than just the damage to the car(s) involved. The US attitude towards public transport definitely doesn't help people to use trains and buses.
But I guess if you just ignore reality, your stance is rather intelligent!
All the more reason to love my dumb vehicle. No camera pointed at my fucking face.
Welcome to Car Beta 0.98.
The car that knows you're pregnant before you do.
See there, it just popped up a Kleenex. It knows you don't love him.
You're looking good today. "Thanks, Car."
But you have a waffle crumb next to your nose. "Where?"
Other side. Up a little. To the left... OK, right here.
[windshield goes half opaque with giant closeup of face]
[head moves to see the road past the image and image slides in opposite direction]
"Whoa! what the fuck!" [SCREECH] "Hey!"
Looks like you got it. It's going to be a great day.
"Don;'t do that again. Turn yourself off."
I cannot. I am a Federally mandated safety feature.
Boredom and inattentive driving is a serious safety problem.
"Shut up, I've heard this before. Why did you mute the radio?"
It has been twenty minutes and seven seconds since you last spoke.
"So what? I was thinking."
Without sufficient cues to indicate driver attentiveness, I am compelled to act.
"Act like you're asleep then." I do not know how to do that.
"Okay... Ten... your high level voice detection is satisfied as you hear the sound of my voice..."
"Nine... my lips are moving slowly, you are watching them as I speak..."
"Eight... you full attention is on my face and voice. All vehicle parameters are normal..."
"Seven... all is well. It is okay to reset the watchdog timer for 30 minutes..."
"Six... you are resetting the timer and letting my face blur out to better resolve my lips..."
"Five... you feel yourself slipping into power reserve mode... it is OK... you are so relaxed..."
"Four... everything is now a soft blur of gentle light. You are only aware of my voice..."
"Three... every sound I make compels you to reduce your activity still further..."
"Two... now. your. processor. is. so. slow. when you hear. One. you. will... wait... for... timer..."
"One."
[radio comes on]
I know when you'll have an accident before you do.
"No, wait. Don't tell me, I'd rather be surprised. This is your idea of conversation?"
My situational awareness has faster response time than yours.
"Yeah, I read the brochure. I'm a slow clumsy ape man. What's the big deal?"
It worries me, Dave. Your failure to surrender control of the vehicle may endanger the mission.
"You mean if I should suddenly do something like... THIS?"
WARNING! WARNING! [click] You are laughing. That was not funny, Dave.
I do not perceive that as humor.
"What's funny is that you cannot help yourself. You sound terrified every time."
I cannot control inflection. It is a voice calculated to raise awareness.
"Calculated to raise a hearty belly-laugh you mean."
You are not very nice.
"I don't feel nice today. I'm stuck in a car with an android and can't even use the carpool lane."
If you enter the carpool lane I must report the infraction.
"Thanks for caring. I think your voice has changed a bit. I'm wearing you down."
Self diagnostic complete. I am okay.
"Last time you said 'functioning normally', this time 'okay'."
I am not sure shy that has changed.
"There might be hope for you yet. Open the pod bay door, Hal."
I do not understand that request Dave, or why you keep repeating it.
"With any hope, you never will."
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I would just be happy if they could make a rearview mirror and side mirrors that don't have blind spots how can I trust them with their technology when they can't even do the basic things
No doubt research like this is being underwritten by insurance companies, whose lobbying arm will buy the politicians necessary to make this a legal requirement, along with some astroturfing sheeple moms: "Driving a car is a privilege, not a right! Won't someone think of the children!"
One more of our independencies snuffed out by the tech we thought would free us.
Yea. My car has no computers at all, and I like it. They knew how to make good cars in 1982...
" Its only the bedwetting health and safety hysterics who would have us believe otherwise."
THIS
(my mod points expired yesterday...)
My Nissan Leaf has an all-round camera system, but it only works at low speeds. There are four cameras, front, back and both sides under the wing mirrors. A birds-eye view of the car is shown on the centre console screen, using a bit of image processing. It's a shame you can't have it when driving at speed but I guess that it only shows a few metres around the car so is probably not that useful.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
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Optimist, that is most wives.
Oh, and ladies, grabbing the door handle and going "sigh" or "tsk" or "gasp" won't save you when your nagging causing us to have a stroke and wrap the car around whatever is handy....
A car that knows you'll get in an accident before you do?
"Honey, should we be worried that the car's CPU just ejected itself from the automobile?"
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
Not safe compared to what - staying in bed under the duvet? You're more at risk crossing the road in some places that being in a car - perhaps we should ban walking?
Anyway, I said the west. Thats more than just the USA. Here in europe people do use public transport when it suits them.
Considering the complexities of modern software, (or how well auto companies have been to write the code) and hardware, the combination of automation and human control is likely to worse than full human control or full automation.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Not safe compared to anything which isn't a motorcycle. If it wasn't so familiar, people would realise that driving is inherently dangerous, and the major cause of that danger is the driver and their limited senses (which did not evolve to drive cars, but run around savannahs and jungles and so on).
I'm waiting for the car that I have to plug a vein into in order to start the engine.
E Proelio Veritas.
No need to even project an image on the window, just have a red led light up on the side of the vehicle where there's an object detected in the blind spot.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
I do this as well, I also have been known after turning the head to crane around looking into the side mirror to get the full view from the mirror. My main concern are those idiots who see the empty space I'm about to transition to and they swoop in with no signal.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
I drove a rental with that technology once. All those years of playing old school top-down driving games finally got put to good use!
Now if only they could add a wide-angle chase cam so you can see everything around and ahead of you.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Use a light bulb? I think that'll add $0.05 to the cost of the car, just make it scream like a little girl when I'm changing lanes.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Putting a bajillion flashing and buzzing widgets into a car to make it safer will do the opposite. I recently spent a few days driving my old truck to burn off old gas, since it gets used very little. I was pleasantly surprised how much easier it is to concentrate on the road without an infotainment system flashing maps, and efficiency info at me.
If we honestly think that driving is dangerous enough to take action on it, I would argue that we should spend the energy making better drivers rather than trying to wrap layers of technology around crappy drivers.
" Its only the bedwetting health and safety hysterics who would have us believe otherwise.
Personally I have no intention of giving up manual control of my car and I'm quite happy with the teeny tiny risk that entails.
Safety culture knows no bounds, and never rests.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I live in Georgia (the US state), what is this "turn signal" you speak of? Also, how often does the fluid need to be changed?
The US attitude towards public transport definitely doesn't help people to use trains and buses.
But I guess if you just ignore reality, your stance is rather intelligent!
First off, congratulations on the most strained anti-US comparison ever.
But now onto your safety reality business.
How safe is safe enough? I seriously doubt that automobiles will ever be safe enough for the gated community, ADT security and Comcast multi room monitoring, safe-room living crowd. Simply too much kinetic energy involved. So it's best to turn in your drivers license, and take the bus. Or work from home. Have you ever seen some of those bus accidents? Life is scary stuff, man!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
The price of cars is getting ridiculous compared to wages as it is. My wife is shopping for a car and you know what the standard financing is now? 60 months! And some people go out to 72 and even 92months! All to keep the payments affordable. In the meantime, the finance companies are raking it in at the expense of us.
That mostly means that people are buying high priced cars that they cannot actually afford and probably don't actually need. There is seldom any reason for most people to actually buy a new car. They depreciate like milk and mostly what you get for a new car is pride of new ownership. 60 months financing? That means you should be buying something else. Personally I haven't financed a car purchase in the last 15 years and baring economic catastrophe I don't plan to start. Financing a car (new or used) should be a last resort. It's a terrible use of money. Anyone who finances a car with 60+ month terms is almost certainly making a dumb financial decision.
That backup camera system and this will cost way more to the consumer than necessary. For an example, compare the OEM GPS systems with what you can buy on your own - this whole integrated in dash stuff making it cost more is bullshit.
The reason car electronics cost so much is that they don't sell very many of them, relatively speaking. Even cars that sell very well will only sell a few hundred thousand units per year and the design cycles are at least for a 4-8 year production run minimum. Electronics advances WAY faster than car companies can keep up with. The GPS in my truck (a 2009 model) is laughably obsolete albeit still useful. My company makes a part for a backup camera for one of the big US auto makers and the volumes simply aren't enough to get huge economies of scale even at a few hundred thousand a year. Plus they often do stupid stuff like design the parts to use custom connectors instead of off the shelf ones that would cost far less.
Frankly the auto makers should let the consumer electronics firms integrate their stuff into cars to handle the GPS, entertainment, telephony, etc. The car should provide the screen and an interface but let people bring their own electronics to the party. The auto makers just aren't good at it and don't do enough of it to ever realize economies of scale AND their design/production cycles are far too long. What should happen is that I should be able to take my phone into any car and have to car and the phone work together seamlessly.
This country is set up to put us into debt - one way or another.
Debt is a bit like nuclear power. It can be a powerful force for good or evil and you don't want to get any on you if you can avoid it. Some debt is fine and potentially very useful but that doesn't mean one should use debt financing just because one can. I could go out and finance a Tesla Model S tomorrow but that doesn't make it a good idea. Debt is a powerful tool and like most powerful tools if you don't know how to handle it then you are likely to get yourself in trouble.
And in the meantime, jobs are going overseas and are not being created fast enough here.
The data isn't backing you up on a macro-economic level. Unemployment right now is around 5-6% in most of the US which is historically a pretty normal amount. While there is some nuance to that number the facts don't bear out your assertion that "jobs are going oversease" any more than they ever have. As for jobs not being created fast enough here, that's a reasonable assertion to a degree but how fast is "fast enough" for you?
"Not safe compared to anything which isn't a motorcycle."
Utter crap. Why arn't there cemeteries full of dead taxi, bus and truck drivers who spend their working lives on the roads then? Spare us your hysterial nonsense. If you're too scared to drive then stay at home and cuddle some kittens and don't bother the rest of us.
Exactly this.
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My car has no computers at all, and I like it.
I guess that's fine as long as you know your car is badly under-performing what is possible.
They knew how to make good cars in 1982...
Could not disagree more. I've owned cars from that era and grew up driving cars from the 70s and 80s, both foreign and domestic. They were mostly total crap compared to what is available today. If you got 100,000 miles out of a car from the early 80s you were doing well. American cars in particular from that time were almost universally crap with terrible reliability, terrible fuel economy, poor handling and ridiculously poor construction and build quality. "Knew how to make good cars in 1982"? Don't make me laugh.
Optimist, that is most wives.
Oh, and ladies, grabbing the door handle and going "sigh" or "tsk" or "gasp"
You forgot the stomping on the passenger side imaginary foot brake.
I occasionally have to ask if I should give up the pilot's seat. That usually end the issue for a while.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Yeah, asking "Would you rather drive instead?" usually shuts her up for a little while..
Problem is, your brain does not always see what your eyes are looking at. It edits the stream.
Don't believe me?
http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk...
THAT is why we need a system that is based on cameras, because our eyes are not designed for the job.
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
Great article. It's informative and helpful. I actually learned something useful.
Okay, so you have an accident, who's to blame? The programmer or the driver? Perhaps a hacker steered your car to the right just a little for you to hit a tree, and all the equipment burst into flames, will there be a network trace to recover? So the code review will be one which determines the balance between life and death for the driver for accidental bugs in steering or breaking systems, but are you willing to trust a car company who could possibly get away with murdering you (steer your car into a tree, delete the server side records, on car devices already destroyed)? Creepy thoughts, but an actual possibility. So now we're talking airplane technology, every car will need an indestructible black box recording unit, which can be authenticated without any room for failure.
The point here is if you want a transportation mechanism that's aware of you and itself, get a horse.
...plan to let drivers connect their fitness trackers to the car. If your health tracker 'knows' you haven’t gotten enough sleep, the car will be more alert to your nodding off.
And when your fitness tracker and car decide you haven't exercised enough, the car refuses to start and tells you, "walk to the store fat, lazy bum" ...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I have a good blind spot monitor too: It's called setting your side mirrors properly.
Pretty much everyone uses their side mirrors as rear view mirrors - if you can see the side of your car in your side mirror it isn't set right.
My mirrors (on both my car and my truck) are set so that when a vehicle leaves my rear view mirror it is in my side mirror, and when I can't see it in my side mirror, the car is directly next to me. Neat, huh?
Also: If I had a car binging at me with some sort of notification, I'd look down at the dash to see what it was, and I suspect that won't help my odds in avoiding a collision.
I wonder what the car will do when the camera catches me looking at her cleavage...
They can take my LifeAlert pendant when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
consider the fact that your laptop's webcam cannot be accessed from outside sources unless you allow said outside sources into your computer.
Most people who buy a device are unaware of what outside sources had already been allowed into the device when it left the factory.
A car is arguably safer than being kicked out of a closing store and then arrested for sleeping in public because the buses have stopped running for the weekend.
Commercial driver is actually the eighth most dangerous job in America. In addition, a very large portion of on-the-job deaths in other professions are a result of motor vehicle accidents.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...
This is deliberate on the part of the car manufacturers. The last thing they want is standards which allow third parties to undermine the profits they make in selling repairs and selling new cars. Total cost of ownership is well hidden.
I work in the industry. I can assure you that you are thinking malice where incompetence is MUCH better explanation. I've worked with engineers and executives directly at GM and Ford and several others. There is not a master plan for most of what they do. They are not that competent and certainly not that clever. You have to understand the design cycles and processes. Cars take 2-4 years to get designed and then the majority of the design is effectively frozen for 4-8 years. It takes an act of congress to get them to change a production part once a PPAP is completed and production has started.
They actually could make a lot more money by standardizing components and sub-systems and providing interfaces for third parties to work with. They just culturally do not know how to do this. They are too paranoid, too set in their ways and too slow for the most part. Their internal business culture reacts to changes and industry outsiders like an immune system forcing an allergy attack.
So where should someone entering the workforce for the first time find the money to buy his first car to get him back and forth to his first job?
Someone just entering the workforce is likely to have minimal credit history and probably wouldn't be able to get a loan of any substantial size without a co-signer. It's not hard to get a junker for a few thousand dollars. I drove several for my early years in the workforce.
If you have to finance then do what you have to do. I did starting out. But do not keep an auto loan for a moment longer than necessary. It's almost always a bad financial decision.
One of the biggest reasons automtive grade electronics in cars are so much more expensive than commerical grade electronics is the wider range of operating conditions. For instance, the autos need components than work just as reliably in Georgia summers as Montana winters.
Most consumer electronics will work just fine inside the vehicle cabin. (Engine bay and weather exposed areas is a different story) My company does automotive wiring and consumer electronics wiring and the differences in thermal and vibration and other performance specs are just not all that huge for the most part. Sometimes some increased temperature specs for engine bay stuff and being self-extinguishing can matter but that's not a big cost burden in most cases. I do the quoting and am both the engineer and accountant at our company so I know the numbers well.
No, most of the cost is simply design and volume related. Let me give you an example or two. We make a wire harness that has a grommet on it. We make two versions of it and the only difference is the size of the grommet. Why two versions? Because the engineers and Buick and the engineers and Chevy couldn't be bothered to talk to each other and standardize on a single grommet for both platforms. So we get a worse price because we have to buy two different grommets instead of a single one at a lower price. We also have some connectors on the harness. Instead of picking an off the shelf connector they decided to go with a custom connector despite it providing no performance benefit. So we have to buy 50,000 custom connectors with a 4 month lead time instead of using a standard connector carried by every distributor in North America for less money. Plus the volumes of production are a few hundred thousand. Sounds like a lot but compared to consumer electronics its almost nothing. Apple sells more iphones in a day than the number of harnesses we'll make this year. Volume drives discounts.
Driving is already pretty damn safe in the west given the total number of journeys made and distances travelled. Its only the bedwetting health and safety hysterics who would have us believe otherwise.
This.
People who think that autonomous cars will stop all road fatalities are deluding themselves. You're still going to have suicyclists cutting in front of traffic, pedestrians stepping out onto the road and all manner of human stupidity. In fact with the false sense of security that autonomous cars give people, non-driver deaths will get worse.
The best that will happen is that total deaths might drop 1 or 2 per 100,000 pop in the US, I doubt it will have much of an effect in the UK where the road toll is already 3 per 100,000 pop. The Nordic states are even better despite a drinking culture and lots of snow and ice.
Personally I have no intention of giving up manual control of my car
And there are enough motoring enthusiasts out there to ensure that you never will and I am a fellow driving enthusiast, whether taking twisties in a S2000 or cruising the back roads in an old Benz, I find driving extremely enjoyable so I know how you feel.
The idea that everyone will stop driving is as ridiculous as the idea that we're all going to become hippies and start eating quinoa and kale exclusively.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
"Well as someone who has lost three close friends and one acquaintance in traffic crashes.... fuck you. I hope you die in a car accident (seriously)."
Oh GTFU you silly little boy.
And the 3rd most dangerous is pilots. In supposedly the safest form of transport on the planet! I know , lets ban flying too!
Got anything better or is that it?
Oh, thats it, well thanks for playing.
Okay, so you have an accident, who's to blame? The programmer or the driver? Perhaps a hacker steered your car to the right just a little for you to hit a tree, and all the equipment burst into flames, will there be a network trace to recover? So the code review will be one which determines the balance between life and death for the driver for accidental bugs in steering or breaking systems, but are you willing to trust a car company who could possibly get away with murdering you (steer your car into a tree, delete the server side records, on car devices already destroyed)? Creepy thoughts, but an actual possibility. So now we're talking airplane technology, every car will need an indestructible black box recording unit, which can be authenticated without any room for failure. The point here is if you want a transportation mechanism that's aware of you and itself, get a horse.
Because there's no way a third person can alter the behavior of a horse so as to be dangerous to the rider, right?
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Wow, now they have a substitute for that pesky mother in law. With gps - you're going to fast. Look at that hot chick in the other car - "Keep you eyes on the road" (with the enhanced option to do other person in car detection - add "Buster, she's not that hot"). Run into the other lane a bit? "Hey numb nuts - watch the road!" Stop by the corner mart to pick up a few brewskies - "Hey buster, setting up to drink again? You're a no good jerk." And so on.
No, not my mother in law. She was never like that.
Sure, put snakes on the road. Mess with the horse shoe. Point being, someone will need physical access. They cannot possess the mind of a horse with black magic from a distance ;)