05-03-2017, 10:54 AM
(05-02-2017, 02:52 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: I've said on this forum before that, when the so-called intelligent car (or driverless vehicle) becomes seriously operational, it will be be the end of human drivers. These computers'll be so good compared to their human counterparts that we'll be a liability and will no longer be allowed on the road. Particularly in cities. In that scenario, it is hard to see that motorcycles will be allowed either. We'll just have to hope that us tragics who want to drive ourselves will have space set aside for us to do so.
Make the most of it fellas.
I believe that will be the case. The biggest problem for driverless car technology is not detecting other cars or road hazards. It is trying to anticipate the actions of the most unpredictable thing on earth. A human.
Once you take humans out of the equation, it's relatively easy to network all of the cars together to safely run down a highway at 75 MPH with 10 ft. spacing. Imagine how that would impact the clogged freeways around large cities. That will be the driving force (pun intended) to abolish human drivers.
BTW, a few months ago my CB and I were stopped at a traffic light downtown when an Uber driverless car pulled up in the lane next to me. It's coming!