OT: Does anyone here want to own a self-driving car?

I have been driving since I was a kid sitting on my Dads lap steering the Monster Pontiac Bonneville ( That was a Car ! )
Ive driven my Motorhome almost everywhere, from one coast to the other & recently from here to Fairbanks & back & I like driving less & less because...
All the Idiot drivers, they really do take the fun out of it

If I were a comuter, hell yes I would spend that wwsted time being here sharing all my wonderfull wisdom !
& figuring out how to expand spell check here from the subject line  ;)

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"NorthernCalVike" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"matt4787" said: I absolutely would. Anyone who thinks human drivers are going to be better than self-driving cars is delusional. Although safety has been getting better and better especially in terms of vehicle miles traveled. It is still in the 35,000 range per year. Not only is it going to happen soon it is going to change the economy drastically. 

So you think enrolling in Roadmaster Truck Driver Training School is a bad idea?  10-4 good buddy.

Actually the whole Truck driving thing is where I see self driving vehicles being the biggest deal for the economy. The trucking industry is in a HUGE pickle right now - there are not nearly enough drivers. No one is getting involved. Cross Country trucking is a lonely and dangerous job. Young people today do not want to fill these job openings which are everywhere. Trucking schools are doing all they can to get recruits into their schools - offering $$ and many other benefits that never existed for Truckers. Its one reason why so many of the big rig truck drivers I see coming into our warehouse everyday are foreign (from countries with bad economies). Having Auto Driving Big Rig trucks would revolutionize the trucking industry and hopefully will. Shipping costs will drop drastically with not having to pay a driver which is especially huge for cross country driving. And these auto driving trucks will not have to pull over for mandatory sleep breaks. Scheduling truck driving at night when there is the least traffic would be easy to do. So many benefits. 

Its so weird - when I was a kid Trucking seemed SO cool! Think Smokey and the Bandit! That was my impression at least as a little boy. Not any more for things young ones. Maybe we need a really cool Trucking movie again like Convoy/Breaker! Breaker! / White Line Fever, or TV shows like BJ and the Bear. Have to wonder how these shows glamorized trucking back in the day and helped get new employees - a recruiting thing I suppose.

But in the mean time - go ahead and enroll in the Roadmaster Truck Driver Training School if you need a guaranteed job with benefits and decent pay. Just be prepared for a tough lonely job if your a cross country driver. I think you have about 10 years before Auto driving cross country trucking takes hold (safety / technology fixes / investment by Trucking companies into the new vehicles etc. to be ironed out). 

personally I think our country needs to majorly reinvest in the rail industry for moving more goods instead of looking to self driving trucks.  get the majority of the miles done by trains and then use local short haul drivers to finish the trips.   our interstates and highways would last a lot longer and our roads would be much less congested.  a train is so much more efficient than the same number of trucks when it comes to moving an  equal amount of freight and although train derailments and accidents happen and are tragic when they do,  they are much much safer and reliable than truck freight IMO.    we just need to break the major rail companies grip on the industry though.   burlington northern ( warren buffet) is the fucking devil to work with.

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

Alexa, please add toilet paper to my grocery list!!

What about flying cars like in the jetsons

@"Viking1987" said: What about flying cars like in the jetsons

I started  thinking  about icy roads in Montana and the car driving it's self  I think I don't like that .the best thing for driving on icy roads is experience self driving cars don't have that

@"Viking1987" said: I started  thinking  about icy roads in Montana and the car driving it's self  I think I don't like that .the best thing for driving on icy roads is experience self driving cars don't have that

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

Alexa, please add toilet paper to my grocery list!!

Who is this Alexa you speak of?
Does she like drive ins? ;)

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

Alexa, please add toilet paper to my grocery list!!

Who is this Alexa you speak of?
Does she like drive ins? ;)

I suppose as long as she has an internet connection and 120V she can talk dirty to you all night as long as you ask her to!!! 

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

Alexa, please add toilet paper to my grocery list!!

Who is this Alexa you speak of?
Does she like drive ins? ;)

I suppose as long as she has an internet connection and 120V she can talk dirty to you all night as long as you ask her to!!! 

She sounds a little dangerous.  Maybe she has a sister.

@"Viking1987" said: I started  thinking  about icy roads in Montana and the car driving it's self  I think I don't like that .the best thing for driving on icy roads is experience self driving cars don't have that

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"suncoastvike" said

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

Alexa, please add toilet paper to my grocery list!!

Who is this Alexa you speak of?
Does she like drive ins? ;)

I suppose as long as she has an internet connection and 120V she can talk dirty to you all night as long as you ask her to!!! 

She sounds a little dangerous.  Maybe she has a sister.

you know the old saying......if shes to fast you're to old...

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"suncoastvike" said

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

Alexa, please add toilet paper to my grocery list!!

Who is this Alexa you speak of?
Does she like drive ins? ;)

I suppose as long as she has an internet connection and 120V she can talk dirty to you all night as long as you ask her to!!! 

She sounds a little dangerous.  Maybe she has a sister.

you know the old saying......if shes to fast you're to old...

120v would I introduce her as my "current" girlfriend? I have a rule of not plugging into things plugged in.

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"Viking1987" said: I started  thinking  about icy roads in Montana and the car driving it's self  I think I don't like that .the best thing for driving on icy roads is experience self driving cars don't have that

Ive had the exact same concerns,  changing road conditions that the car cant see but we can.                                                      ....                                    yep that what I was thinking

@"Maple Surple" said:

@"Viking1987" said: I started  thinking  about icy roads in Montana and the car driving it's self  I think I don't like that .the best thing for driving on icy roads is experience self driving cars don't have that

Not according to Elon Musk, they have been working on that Why dont you think a computrr couldnt react & make adjustment hundredscof yimes faster than you ? I dont think a computer would need to practice either   ;)

First, we need to stop calling them "self-driving cars". This is a whole new category of vehicle.

Second, they are already safer than human drivers. The big issue is who is at fault in the event of an accident. That is the biggest holdup in this whole process. Insurance companies can currently gouge the heck out of consumers with every accident. Once that is no longer possible, profits will start to flatten and the auto insurance industry is much less lucrative. That's why all of the anti-automated vehicle news coverage all has the same, odd thesis: "isn't it better to be killed by a human than a technical error?". Um... what?

Third, these vehicles need to be completely re-designed to accompany the benefits (and potential downsides) of this new technology. If range sensors, infrared, cameras, GPS and other systems are guiding the vehicle... why are there still windshields? If the driver is a computer, why are people facing forward? Why are they fully upright? Why is the engine in the "hit here first" area?

Fourth, and finally, as someone who drives long distances for work... I would absolutely buy one. Heck, my company might just buy one for every single field sales person they have. Productivity would skyrocket if you could work while being transported. Not to mention, this would eliminate a huge, growing problem in distracted driving (texting/Pokemon-ing).

This will impact a huge number of industries (airline travel, shipping, local delivery, and many more).

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"suncoastvike" said

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"suncoastvike" said:

@"Ralphie" said:But I'm glad I grew up when I did and had the enjoyment of owning and maintaining my own car and the freedom it provided me as a youth.  

Not to mention I woulda gotten busted for lude and lascivious at the drive in movie without a car.  I guess your self driving one could get you to a drive in. If they were around. 
I'm not trusting any onboard computer to keep my secrets.

HAHAHA!!! Who am I kidding. I couldn't even keep that secret. I bragged that sh!t up.

Edit: had to correct myself. Lewd kind not lude. Lusty not stoner...however.

Alexa, please add toilet paper to my grocery list!!

Who is this Alexa you speak of?
Does she like drive ins? ;)

I suppose as long as she has an internet connection and 120V she can talk dirty to you all night as long as you ask her to!!! 

She sounds a little dangerous.  Maybe she has a sister.

you know the old saying......if shes to fast you're to old...

120v would I introduce her as my "current" girlfriend? I have a rule of not plugging into things plugged in.

Nah,   more likely she'D be your stray...voltage.

After further review I'll stick with the wife she's at least grounded

@"Viking1987" said:

@"Maple Surple" said:

@"Viking1987" said: I started  thinking  about icy roads in Montana and the car driving it's self  I think I don't like that .the best thing for driving on icy roads is experience self driving cars don't have that

Not according to Elon Musk, they have been working on that Why dont you think a computrr couldnt react & make adjustment hundredscof yimes faster than you ? I dont think a computer would need to practice either   ;)

Example last fall a church that was located next to the  highway last fall had there auto sprinklers still on in the evening so later in the night it would freeze instant ice  how would a smart  driverless car  know that till it was  to late

I wonder how a self driving car would do on gravel or other non paved rural surfaces and areas?