Everything I own is manual trans
Self driving cars
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Everything I own is manual trans
Only the elite like STB will own their own self-driving cars. The rest of us will subscribe to self-driving car sharing programs and request a car online where and when we need it, for pennies on the dollar.
What legal hurdles? The only legal impediments to self-driving vehicles aren't liability, but existing road design, traffic laws, vehicle standards. Regulations that never conceived of the possibility of self-driving cars. But legislators can change those legal requirements whenever they want, it's just a matter of figuring out how the cars will be implemented and draw up rules to enable it.
It's no different from self-operating elevators when it comes to legal liability. If the elevator crashes, the company gets sued. Life moves on.
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Me too....nothing more enjoyable.......driving home in rush hour traffic from downtown toronto to Oakville
My legs
, in the winter anyway, then it switches to the right one because all my bikes are kick start!
Elevator going up and down is a very controlled environment. The only failure would be from complete mechanical failure and even then there are safety brakes. etc. Compare that to a car, or potentially thousands of cars on the road at the same time, road conditions, traffic conditions, pedestrians, animals, etc. It's like you said, there is a crash, company gets sued, .....well, with cars, there is BOUND to be crashes, I guess any company releasing a self driving car is going to have to account for the costs of these lawsuits into the sticker price, but how much are they going to need? There is no precedent. I'm telling you, this is going to be a legal mess at least for first few years when these cars start hitting the roads. I could be wrong but I guess we'll see when it happens.
daught
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Yeap, chances are there will be lots of lawsuits even if the car is not at fault. People will try to blame the car.
The hydraulic clutch on my Duc was nice.......smooth as hell, could easily pull it with one finger.Your left forearm.
Good point on the legal issues. The defense teams will theoretically consist of lawyers, automotive engineers and computer techies all bombarding a judge / magistrate with technical issues that will be hard to follow. It could be a BS baffles brains situation.
However does it matter for us here in Ontario since we have no-fault insurance?
Will these vehicles bring our rates down?
Motorcycle Mike
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Considering the intentional crashing of that German flight, i wonder why flying isn't automated yet?
Considering how long auto pilot and drones have existed, you'd think they'd have self flying planes pretty much perfected by now.
At the very least, why aren't planes semi automatic in that if they sense the plane being flown into a mountain or building the auto pilot takes over control of the plane?
Considering how long auto pilot and drones have existed, you'd think they'd have self flying planes pretty much perfected by now.
At the very least, why aren't planes semi automatic in that if they sense the plane being flown into a mountain or building the auto pilot takes over control of the plane?
Wasn't there another one a few years ago where there were hints of a suicidal terrorist pilot pilot doing his thing? Do we wait for a third? Air Asia is another unknown.
Of course every solution brings another problem. While it would be ideal to remotely take over an aircraft that appears to be out of control it presents hackers with the potential of taking over all aircraft and putting them all out of control.
Yep, you can't shape human nature. We're always going to do what we're going to do, and that includes terrorism and suicide. So while Conservatives are in full denial about our eternally imperfect humanity, and use their inability to accept reality as an excuse to meddle in others' lives, the fact is that people will continue harm themselves and others. Forever. Nothing can stop it entirely.
So we take reasonable precautions and resign ourselves to some harm. The odd stolen sandwich at work, or the occasional stray rocket from Palestine. And if we're honest honest with ourselves, if we accept the limited perfection of the world, we shrug our shoulders and move on.
Human imperfection is nicely illustrated in this story from the development of self-driving cars https://medium.com/backchannel/how-to-make-moonshots-65845011a277 (the whole article is a great read).
You don't need insurance to get a metropass. The TTC has the insurance, not the passengers. Same diff. You won't need a license. You won't need to be able-bodies, you won't need to be 16 or over, you won't need to be sober or attentive or clothed. Well, maybe clothed.
Ever see a production machine with hundreds of moving parts spitting out widgets? None of the parts collide, everything works in perfect harmony at lightning speed. Self driving units could achieve that someday. Get in your unit, punch in a location, hit send and you could be in, say Montreal in 45 minutes. Of course, how long would it take before a 45minute ETA becomes unacceptable? Lets see if we can't get it down to 30 minutes, life needs to be more efficient. Think you have ADD now? Anyway, got to run, need to be in Vancouver for dinner and then power lunch tomorrow Peru.
Why do you guys even have bikes? Just take the bus if you want something to drive for you.
