Yes, the Insulate Britain protesters were significantly more courageous than this lot, who can't be botered to get out of their vehicles unless it's to assault someone making some protest they disagree with. Instead they are doing what they normally do everyday - driving around moaning about taxes (and probably about cyclists who jump red lights) - just significantly slower than usual.
Welcome to the thread, which I see you haven't bothered to read any of.
It's only around five years away! I know this is true because it's been five years away for quite some time now.
Thank you for the welcome. When I read the recent part of the thread, I noticed Mr Ed’s posts seem to repetitively mention bad drivers who have lost their emotional control, with the suggestion that this should be a reason to ban car ownership. I therefore made the helpful suggestion that self driving cars might solve the problem instead.
From what I understand, Tesla have been making great strides and I for one think computers will do a much better job of piloting heavy dangerous machines than incompetent humans do.
futurism.com
Well Elon is a well known twonk, so nothing would surprise me. But nevertheless, Tesla have been advancing electric car technology very rapidly.Watch Elon Musk Promise Self-Driving Cars "Next Year" Every Year Since 2014
A new supercut video demonstrates that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that Teslas will drive themselves next year — every year since 2014.
A key question is how much better will they have to be? A little bit better isn't going to cut it. A lot better might not be acceptable either. I don't think killing hundreds of people every year and maiming tens of thousands is going to be acceptable to the general public, even though many are fine with these figures when it's not the fault of robots. The panic over escooters gives you a preview, even though they're not that risky.
Weird, I'd heard they had come to an unexpected stop.
No doubt there will be bumps in the road and like any technology, getting the last few percent of the functionality will take the longest time. I cant imagine the automated systems could possibly be worse than some of the things I’ve seen on the road from brain-dead humans.
I think you‘re making invalid assumptions about the speed at which self driving cars might become widely available.
Five years! Promise!
Dunno, plenty of people seem to think drivers are on the whole too dangerous, and that autonomous cars are god-sent and will get rid of road casualties. Ironically (deliciously so), the single biggest obstacle to self-driving cars becoming sufficiently reliable is the very people who would like them to become a reality asap, namely many of those cyclists and militant anti-car pedestrians. No computer software, current or expected in the foreesable future, can cope with the fact that cyclists don't obey the same rules as motorised traffic and basically are too unpredictable due to their tendency to do whatever the fuck they please at all times. Ditto pedestrians who seem to have forgotten, or never learned in the first place, to check for traffic before suddenly appearing on the road between two parked vehicles so no vehicle can spot them until the very last second.
I suppose like any technology, it will evolve and improve through generations and maybe we shouldn’t be constrained by thinking of the overall road safety as being limited by cars only having available the info which can be perceived from their own viewpoint (eg. In your example “cars can’t anticipate a suddenly appearing pedestrian”).
Yet again showing how utterly backwards this thinking is.
I fear it may be unwise for you to admit that people in cars can often get around without cars.
Reckon fuel prices must be too low if people are willing to drive around pointlessly trying to protest.Fuel price protesters using similar tactics to Inuslate Britain to highlight their concerns today.
Fuel protests: Arrests for slow driving during motorway delays
Protesters who want a fuel duty cut drove slowly on major roads across the country.www.bbc.co.uk
I wonder if there's any crossover between drivers protesting against fuel prices and drivers who lost the plot when Insulate Britain prevented them from driving around on cheap fuel a few months back.
Self driving cars definitely sounds like a solution but not here yet so I suggest we ban cars in the meantime. Thanks
Seriously, listen to this. Tesla are nowhere near having self driving cars and are basically a fraudulent company.
