Quote Originally Posted by pepi View Post
"Self driving " One question who do you sue if hit by one of these ........?



Think all these failsafe gee-dunks will make the drivers even lazier and less attentive, and will create a bigger nightmare in time......... No thanks I like to drive a car not ride in a car.
I think so, too, Pepi. There is a commercial on TV for Mercedes or Audi (I think) that says the car takes care of all the little stuff leaving you more time to drive - the idea scares the he-- out of me; that is, to use a new word, enabling and even encouraging inattentive, distracted driving - let the car drive while you play with your phone or pick your nose, or whatever other urgent distraction you have poking at you.

I doubt I will see too much of this long range stuff in my lifetime, and even my kids may not see it come to complete fruition, but I am pretty certain my grandkids will be saddled with it. Just getting the infrastructure developed and in place will take a decade or two, and there won't be any merging of the technology with the existing non-automated systems, it will have to be pretty much a "shut the old one down and clear it away, then put the new one in service" sort of thing. So sometime in the future, the government will deliver a cookie cutter type car to every driver that meets some predetermined criteria, and on some Sunday evening at midnight, they will find some way to disable all of the non-system-compliant cars, and connect the cookie cutters to the system; on Monday morning, you will go get in your cookie cutter and it will take you wherever you, or the government wants you to be. Dismal to think of.