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From: JonCooper
10 May 2011 17:25
To: af (CAER)
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I would be sad to have to ride in self-driving cars and would resist such a change
From: af (CAER)
10 May 2011 17:31
To: JonCooper
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Why?
From: ANT_THOMAS
10 May 2011 17:46
To: af (CAER)
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Well I know I certainly enjoy driving.
From: JonCooper
10 May 2011 17:49
To: af (CAER)
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same, I enjoy driving and would want to do it myself
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
10 May 2011 17:57
To: ANT_THOMAS
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There may well have been multiple signs, but if so I missed them all.
What I actually saw was the sign saying "
haha, you went the wrong way and it's too late now!
"
From: ANT_THOMAS
10 May 2011 18:03
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
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Not too late there at all
:$
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
10 May 2011 18:15
To: ANT_THOMAS
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The thought did go through my mind, but there was assorted crap covering the stripes, and a car in that lane, so it was too risky.
Was going to say it turned out not to be too far until I could stop and turn around, but seems it was over 8 miles. Heh.
From: milko
10 May 2011 22:03
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
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I think self-driving cars are an inevitability but won't be with us for a long time. Mainly because the vast majority don't want them, but once fuel shortages really bite I suspect there will be a bit more pressure on it. You'll certainly soon struggle to buy a car that doesn't change gear for you if you don't change soon enough (bit like Smart cars do, or at least ones I've been in), more conservative rev limiting, and various other measures that take some control away. You've already got auto-parking and auto-braking becoming more widespread. It'll be little by little.
I reckon there'll still be scope for off-roading and things like that manually. And I dunno if this will happen in my lifetime necessarily.
From: af (CAER)
11 May 2011 09:19
To: milko
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You say "vast majority don't want them" - is this actually the case? I really would like to see a proper survey done on this.
And sure, motorsports I think will be around for a long time, and possibly even roads marked as 'recreational' where people can do all the driving they like.
One of the issues raised in the Ars article was safety - who's responsible if a self-driving car causes an accident? What happens if a self-drive is involved in a crash with a normal car?
It also mentioned how even though there are tons of crashes every day, the second a self-drive car is involved in an accident (not even necessarily causes it) the media will go hysterical.
From: milko
11 May 2011 10:00
To: af (CAER)
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I don't have figures no, but come on. For the same reason that it's obvious the media would go nuts at the first accident involving one.