So let me get this straight, the guy taking the head on force of this dreamed up T bone collision and dies/loses conciousness
but the people taking impact from the side in their magic car escape unscathed? This shows how much you know about driving.
Get in your silly robot car and tell it to take you away from civilisation please
[QUOTE=Angus725;47140447]30 years into the future, you're with your family, your wife/husband and kids chatting and watching over a hologram-movie in the middle of your self driving Tesla Model MMXLV. It's a long weekend, and you're taking the whole family on a road trip to somewhere beautiful, away from the hustle and bustle of digital, city life. Somewhere you're only connected through Elon Musk's satellite network, somewhere were you could find some beautiful outdoor scenery. Perhaps it would be the last time you take your kids out on such a road trip, they're about to graduate from highschool/college after all.
Half way through day dreaming about the beauties of the natural world, you cross an intersection in a small town. You're hit by a human driven car. T-boned.
Your car dents, the windows shatter, but stay intact for the most part, your family is terrified. The pair of cars screech to a halt, the idiot in the other car hits his head on the airbags, but it breaks his neck, as his headrest wasn't adjusted properly. His consciousness disappears as fast as his car hit you. You sit there stunned, a little sore from the seatbelts, a few scratches here and there, but safe, and alive.
A police car comes, then an air ambulance, a firetruck, there are no drivers in any of them, only the few humans that cannot be replaced by robots and AI. You describe the incident to the Police, your car is towed away, it's drive shaft bent from the force of the collision. Totaled. The news spreads on Twitter, the topic of self-driving cars flare up yet again. Around you, the cameras on nearby parked cars taking down the entire footage. All the evidence you'll need to get that insurance claim.
You're alive, but wonder, it's not cars that kill people, there hasn't been an accident caused by self-driving cars in almost 2 decades. It's people who drive cars that kill people.
You arrive back at home in the evening, your family safe and asleep, as you email your congressman...
We have doctors regulations. It allows only qualified doctors to operate on people.
We have gun regulation. It allows only sane people to own a weapon.
Yet, we don't have car regulation. Idiots can still drive cars.
Lets remove people from driving cars, and we will live in a safer society.
Of course, not everyone has a self-driving car just yet, there's still a few folks driving their grandparents car, left over from the early decades of the 21st century. So the law will come gradually, and will allow exceptions for car collectors, professional drivers, enthusiasts, etc etc and so on.
What do you folks think of this? Will we, as a society, ever live to see such legislation being passed by governments around the world?
And if so, how long do you think it'll take before such law is passed? 30 years? 50? 100?[/QUOTE]
So, because you're a shitty driver, you think everyone else is, and you want to ban driving? Why not just sign up for a class so you can improve?
[QUOTE=KillerSlash;47199556]So let me get this straight, the guy taking the head on force of this dreamed up T bone collision and dies/loses conciousness
but the people taking impact from the side in their magic car escape unscathed? This shows how much you know about driving.
Get in your silly robot car and tell it to take you away from civilisation please[/QUOTE]
Chill, the story's BS and I know it too, it's to make the thread a little more enraging than the generic general debate stuff.
Ever since my parents invested in a third vehicle and I got my Dad's old car, I don't know where I'd be without having a car as my way to get to Uni, brothers school and home without needing to catch Public transport and worry about making sure my bus card hasn't expired/ran out of credit
I'm not confident with self driving cars seeing as the roads I drive can be really sketchy and require absolute concentration to make sure the car doesn't have a fit and go out of control
Banning people from driving cars is fucking dumb
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;47142250]The government will literally have to kill me if they think they can make me stop driving my own damn car.
I mean it. 100% literally. I do not give a shit if the adoption rate for self-driving cars is 99.998%, I will be in that last .002%.[/QUOTE]
I hate driving. I do it all the time. I can't wait til self driving cars are common enough that I can sit in my car and read a book or something on the way to school/work. Driving is overrated.
[QUOTE=Zotobom;47146482]Might as well ban literally everything that humans use then. Airplanes? Helicopters? Motorcycles? Bikes? Skateboards? Segways? Scooters? They can all be used to hit people.[/QUOTE]
I'm fine with Airplanes being banned
(I'm not serious)
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