<div dir="ltr">Humans not evolving in an environment that includes them controlling fast moving, large metal objects is not a social problem. We're not equipped for safe driving. Getting the drunks off the road, a nice idea that isn't really feasible, just takes out some of the impaired drivers. The real problem is that even unimpaired, humans are not good at the tasks required while driving. The rest of us only see with a certain angle of view, which not all of us can accurately use. We have response times that aren't fast enough to respond to things that move too fast, which is exacerbated by also moving fast. We're just not built for the task. Self driving cars are. They have sensors that allow them to see all around, visually, with radar, with sound, with communication to other cars. They can build a much more complete model of their surroundings than a human can. They can process the information faster and respond faster. Someone posted a link to an article here recently about how much safer they're proving to be. It showed that in so many accidents involving them, they have not yet been at fault once and there have been no injuries. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:40 AM tom <<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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> you keep careening toward the embankment<br>
</span>How So?<br>
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When you're in a "fly-by-wire" car, the computer is between
you and the ignition/transmission. If the task that pays
attention to driver input drops core, there is no way to
"turn off the ignition, put it in neutral, put it in low
gear, etc."
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You are assuming a completely fly by wire car. Are there any today?
For instance my car has manual transmission with a manually operated
clutch. It does have electric power steering. Don't know if or how
much a computer controls that. I don't think a self driving car is a
great idea. That's using more and more technology to solve a social
problem. Get the drunks off the road, and put drivers ed back in
public schools. The only advantage I can see a self driver having is
that I could go out drinking and say "Home James" at the end of the
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