Abo

One Fine Day On An Autonomous Aircraft.

"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen; this is your
flight computer speaking. There are no pilots on board this flight...
and nothing can go wrong grrrk go wrong grrrk go wrong grrrk go wrong grrrk go wrong grrrk go wrong grrrk go wrong grrrk go wrong grrrk"

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

Is that before or after dealing with all of the legal issues and costs?

Nigel7 Loc: Worcestershire. UK.

I really enjoy my driving. I'm very happy to have all the goodies to help me drive safely and legally, so night camera, speed limiter, automatic breaking if I get too close, etc. etc. are fine, as long as I can control them. Having an automonous car, manufactured by the most unreliable brand in the UK, year after year, and costing a ridiculous £77,300 is a definite NO.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Judging by some of the maneuvers I've seen on the road, a car with no driver would be preferable.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

I can't disagree with you on that, Jerry

Stan

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Paranoia strikes deep.
Into your life it will creep…

Stephen Stills was ahead of his time…

Abo

LOL Too true Jerry.

I use a motorcycle more than a car so I notice these things.

As we drive on the other side of the road down here you'l have to reverse the handedness to
know where I am coming from.

Competent drivers are outnumbered by brain dead imbeciles
in Melton Victoria Australia 200,000 to 1... I kid you not!

Almost every time I enter a multi lane round-about, those turning right
from the right lane as they enter the round about, drift into the left lane
with the right indicator operating...
Long story short... THEY VERGE LEFT WITH THE RIGHT INDICATOR ON. F@#KING! F#$&KWITS!!!!!!!!

They must be trying to get themselves into
the god damn Guinness Book Of World Records as the worlds most incompetent drivers... that should be flogged.

Unless you have a good and ready finger on the horn button and
you are prepared to take immediate and vigorous evasive action,
never get on the left of a vehicle that has its right indicator on down here
when in a round-about.

I've actually seen verging left with the right indicator running multiple times
with a Learner driver at the wheel, with a "professional" instructor by their side in a
commercial "professional" driving instruction company vehicle...
both driver and instructor sitting there, like a pair of pillocks
fat dumb and happy verging into the left lane with the right indicator ON... MULTIPLE TIMES.

Idiocy Is Considered A Virtue Driving Schools Of Melton.

Abo

I'm not paranoid, i'm just "well informed".

chikid68 Loc: Tennesse USA

If you had actually read the article it says that the vehicle still requires a physical operator.
The automatic part is not totally automatic.
This seems to be a standard problem now days where people assume that they don't have to actually interact with the equipment they use.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Well informed people are usually paranoid. It's what keeps us motivated to stay informed and exploit the circumstances, rather than be consumed by them.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

As soon as you say, "automatic," people think they don't have to pay attention to anything. That was what happened with young photographers who used Canon AE-1 cameras in the late 1970s... There was nothing wrong with the AE-1, when it was used correctly, but students assumed the camera would do their work for them, and didn't read the manual. More high school yearbooks were degraded by that ignorant misunderstanding than I care to think about.

I worked for a yearbook company in 1979 to 1987, and corporations that owned yearbook companies until 2012. Our conference room was full of sample books. Student-generated candid photography in yearbooks took a very noticeable quality nosedive around 1977. It got worse until 1984 or so. It only got back to the quality of the 1960s and early 1970s, about 1987 to 1990. It improved a lot in the mid-2000s, as dSLRs matured. It took a while for yearbook advisors to realize what was happening. It also took us a while to put photography curricula together for student workshops we sponsored and taught.