Thought on driverless vehicles - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

SwampYankee · #31 05-30-2014, 07:17 AM

"Mind if I drive?"

INSIDIOUS · #32 05-30-2014, 09:12 AM

Autonomous cars will be on line and guarantee connection to NSA. You will be seen and heard and that will be attached to the meta data of your GPS and all. When necessary they can drive you to jail

MTI · #33 05-30-2014, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

Computers never age or err so what could go wrong?

There is something really disgusting in the possiblitly of kicking back, reading a good book, perhaps stopping to turn around and talk to your kids just a half second before doing a head-on with a semi.

I don't like it. People will still tend to drive beat up cars, past their prime. Vehicle inspections would be regular and lengthy. Not taking your car in for inspection would be a serious crime. There would need to be a major expanding of automobile bureaucracy.

and this is different than humans, how?

spdrun · #34 05-30-2014, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS

Autonomous cars will be on line and guarantee connection to NSA. You will be seen and heard and that will be attached to the meta data of your GPS and all. When necessary they can drive you to jail

A few bullets into something critical to the drivetrain should take care of the latter problem.

davidmash · #35 05-30-2014, 10:11 AM

How many people die every year on the roads in the US? Taking the most unreliable part out of the equation seems like a no brainer.

TwitchKitty · #36 05-30-2014, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS

Autonomous cars will be on line and guarantee connection to NSA. You will be seen and heard and that will be attached to the meta data of your GPS and all. When necessary they can drive you to jail

They don't mention that the doors lock from the outside but I'm sure it is somewhere in the fine print.

Cheaper and less messy than drone attacks.

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Originally Posted by davidmash

How many people die every year on the roads in the US? Taking the most unreliable part out of the equation seems like a no brainer.

There is a lot they could do to make it better but it is just so darn profitable the way it is going. If too many people die in the name of profit they can just come up with a new reality show on the joy of teenage pregnancy.

INSIDIOUS · #37 05-30-2014, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

A few bullets into something critical to the drivetrain should take care of the latter problem.

OK. From inside the FWD car going 65 MPH on the freeway, what do you propose to shoot?

oldsinner111 · #38 05-30-2014, 11:35 AM

they never told in the news Mercedes did this last year with a car.
For me,no way I'd buy6 one.To many electronics that can go down.

chasinthesun · #39 05-30-2014, 11:40 AM

Seems like we have alot of driverless cars on the road already ,an example appeared in frt of my vehicle yesterday ,upon entering an on ramp to the freeway the lady driver infrt of me decides to completely come down to a stop from 55mph ,the lane she and I were driving was completely open with no converging traffic.I went around her and luckily the semi behind me got away with a minimium stop distance.

link · #40 05-30-2014, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

A few bullets into something critical to the drivetrain should take care of the latter problem.

I imagine that similar ideas were suggested at around the time when the horseless carriage was introduced.

spdrun · #41 05-30-2014, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS

OK. From inside the FWD car going 65 MPH on the freeway, what do you propose to shoot?

Assuming a gas car, fuel lines running under the floor. Or the roof-mounted sensors to render the computer blind.

Assuming I owned a self-driving car (rather than renting one), I'd probably also put in a switch that disconnects power to the main fuel pump or the motor contactor in case of an electric car. Everything needs a Big Red Button(tm). Dave Bowman lobotomizing HAL-9000 one circuit board at the time, is one of my favorite movie scenes.

Air&Road · #42 05-30-2014, 01:44 PM

Whoa! Wait! Hold the presses! A thread about cars? Do you think this is an automotive forum or something?

MTI · #43 05-30-2014, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

Assuming a gas car, fuel lines running under the floor. Or the roof-mounted sensors to render the computer blind.

Assuming I owned a self-driving car (rather than renting one), I'd probably also put in a switch that disconnects power to the main fuel pump or the motor contactor in case of an electric car. Everything needs a Big Red Button(tm). Dave Bowman lobotomizing HAL-9000 one circuit board at the time, is one of my favorite movie scenes.

The Google car has only two buttons, a stop/go button and an emergency button.

1958:

engatwork · #44 05-30-2014, 02:27 PM

Here you go

George Jetson

I think George drove a Microsoft Taurus. Note how it is already smoking

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link · #45 05-30-2014, 02:53 PM

The Jetsons was a favorite!

Of course once the idea of a driverless vehicle becomes pervasive, things like traffic lights, signage, hiway lights, guard rails, traffic cops, truck drivers, and so on, would no longer be needed, providing a vast savings to tax payers and businesses and eliminating millions of jobs at the same time....................