On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 11:33:19 PM UTC-8, Daniel60 wrote:
Bast wrote:
Daniel60 wrote:
Mark Earnest wrote:
On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 2:33:09 PM UTC-6, Hägar wrote:
"Mark Earnest" wrote in message


They will be like the flying cars in some of the Star Wars episodes. You
get into your car program it where you want to go and it takes
you there. *** as long as they don't allow women to get a license to
operate them ... they may be involved in less accidents than
men, but they cause three times as many.

No one needs a license, no one drives. You just tell it where to go
and it takes you there.
Last week, I was watching an episode of "The Last Leg" featuring Stephen
Fry as the guest.

Stephen mentioned an incident in an "robot" car, where the driver said
"Hey, look at this!!" and let go of the steering wheel.

Things went O.K. until they were on a piece of roadway which had a
concrete centre divide, and the road curved .... and the driver freeked
out and took manual control before the car ran into the centre divide.

Seems there might still be some bugs to iron out before "we" can go
"hands free"!!

More to think about is that when the driverless drone cars do go bad.
It's fairly unlikely that there will be any survivors to tell the tale, and
the cause will be officially listed as "driver error".

Yeap!! Well, it was the driver that choose to switch on the Auto-pilot!!

I wonder if it will get to be like here in Australia where a Licensed
Driver supervising a Learner Driver has to be under the Alcohol Limit as
well!!

So you couldn't go out for a good night on the "turps" and then just put
the car into "auto-pilot" and away you go!!

--
Daniel


Well I heard that GM is starting to make self-driving cars with no brake pedals and no steering wheels! So in that case there will be no back up driver!

Double-A