SPR-GRN
Well-Known Member
Alright this is a thing, it's going to happen. I want to know your thoughts.
Here's how I feel on the subject.. UNDECIDED
The basics:
every auto manufacturer, and some other outfits (most notably Google) are working on cars that will drive themselves, park themselves, and essentially be at your beck and/or call with the tap on the screen of your smart phone.
Advantages:
1.) I won't have to actively drive to work, or on road trips, I'd be able to nap or read or engage in **comment removed due to inappropriateness** with my wife.
2.) I can go out drinking all night and not worry about driving later.
3.) My car will drop me at the door, and go find a parking space, then come pick me up when I call for it when whatever task I'm engaged in is complete (shopping, working, drinking, etc.).
4.) It's better for the environment - I presumably won't care if I have a massive consumer of dinosaur juice that can get to 60 in under 5 seconds, or a tree-hugging hybrid/all electric that emits love and rainbows from the tailpipe; because if I'm not driving, I don't care to illicit a phase change in my tires from solid rubber to smoke, or how quickly I can accelerate to the speed limit because I'll be napping, or reading, or engaged in **comment removed due to inappropriateness** with my wife.
Disadvantages:
1.) As a human, I have been raised to fear technology, as some day the machines will become self aware and rise up against us. It will go from an Asimov-esque utopia, to a Terminator global war scenario, until eventually a full on "people are batteries, but it's o.k. cause they don't know it" a la Matrix in no time.
Other Disadvantages:
1.) I don't even like automatic transmissions, how am I going to feel about a car that drives me around?
2.) IF i get over that, how am I going to feel about a car that drives my wife around?
3.) IF I can get over that, how am I going to feel about a car that drives my children around?
4.) Presumably, I won't be able to afford the deluxe over-engineered German version that can survive a direct hit from an Abrams tank, no, I'll probably end up with the "perfectly acceptable" Japanese version; essentially a Toyota Yaris that drives itself, but only has an "acceptable to good" crash rating, depending on where it's hit, what it's hit by, and what lunar phase we are currently experiencing.
To me it appears that my advantages are all reasonable and concise. The disadvantages appear to be emotionally driven, except for the machines killing all humans, that's a scientific fact.
So how do you all feel about autonomous cars?
Here's how I feel on the subject.. UNDECIDED
The basics:
every auto manufacturer, and some other outfits (most notably Google) are working on cars that will drive themselves, park themselves, and essentially be at your beck and/or call with the tap on the screen of your smart phone.
Advantages:
1.) I won't have to actively drive to work, or on road trips, I'd be able to nap or read or engage in **comment removed due to inappropriateness** with my wife.
2.) I can go out drinking all night and not worry about driving later.
3.) My car will drop me at the door, and go find a parking space, then come pick me up when I call for it when whatever task I'm engaged in is complete (shopping, working, drinking, etc.).
4.) It's better for the environment - I presumably won't care if I have a massive consumer of dinosaur juice that can get to 60 in under 5 seconds, or a tree-hugging hybrid/all electric that emits love and rainbows from the tailpipe; because if I'm not driving, I don't care to illicit a phase change in my tires from solid rubber to smoke, or how quickly I can accelerate to the speed limit because I'll be napping, or reading, or engaged in **comment removed due to inappropriateness** with my wife.
Disadvantages:
1.) As a human, I have been raised to fear technology, as some day the machines will become self aware and rise up against us. It will go from an Asimov-esque utopia, to a Terminator global war scenario, until eventually a full on "people are batteries, but it's o.k. cause they don't know it" a la Matrix in no time.
Other Disadvantages:
1.) I don't even like automatic transmissions, how am I going to feel about a car that drives me around?
2.) IF i get over that, how am I going to feel about a car that drives my wife around?
3.) IF I can get over that, how am I going to feel about a car that drives my children around?
4.) Presumably, I won't be able to afford the deluxe over-engineered German version that can survive a direct hit from an Abrams tank, no, I'll probably end up with the "perfectly acceptable" Japanese version; essentially a Toyota Yaris that drives itself, but only has an "acceptable to good" crash rating, depending on where it's hit, what it's hit by, and what lunar phase we are currently experiencing.
To me it appears that my advantages are all reasonable and concise. The disadvantages appear to be emotionally driven, except for the machines killing all humans, that's a scientific fact.
So how do you all feel about autonomous cars?