Why Self-Driving Cars Will Take Over The World

Self-driving cars may end up being the next big thing, as long as politicians don’t get in the way.
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[Benjanuva]

My biggest concerns are from a digital standpoint. These vehicles are easily hacked and I loathe the idea of government officials having a kill switch to my main mode of transportation. If I'm suspected of a crime that I didn't commit, or say I'm guilty of having the wrong political opinions., I don't want my car to lock itself and deliver me to the police station.

[TimothySielbeck]

My main complaint is I will not be in control of the car yet authorities and manufacturers will want me to be financially responsible for any accidents that a self-driving vehicle I own will be involved in. I would gladly use if financial responsibility were the responsibility of the manufacturers.

[tannerdoberenz]

I’m not scared of self driving cars, I don’t care if some people want to have them, as long as they don’t try and force me to have one myself. I like to drive, and work on my own vehicles. I can’t do that with all the computers, so as long as no one forces me to get rid of my old trucks, I don’t care if they want new cars, be they electric or even self driving.

[rico]

I love driving, it's one of my passions, what scares me about self driving cars is the government shoving them down our throat. If electric vehicles are so awesome, why didn't the postal service not change to them? Why not make more gov vehicles electric? Why not make the big corporations with their huge profits buy them first? Also let the people who want them, to get them. We tax payers already had to pay for incentives to buy electric, yeah, stop that too.

[GoatTheGoat]

You: Society has not collapsed.
Me: Let us agree to disagree on that point.

[atrckr-bfde]

the video doesn't address the points I feel are important, independence government/corporate control of you and your anatomy and another bandaid solution to bad infrastructure, where cities arent walkable too car reliant etc.

[snakeplissken]

Driving is a learned skill. Reliance on self driving cars will remove that skill. Eventually, if we allow our skills to be replaced with self automation, we will lose purpose.

[donswearingen]

That depends. If they are controlled by anyone other than the driver, they won't sell. If the government controls them, I won't buy.

[shameless]

I enjoy driving, I drive for a living. When I'm not driving Monday thru Friday I'm usually out on one of my motorcycles. And I DEFINITELY ain't getting on a self driving motorcycle.

[guybrushthreepwood]

This video seems off base. I rarely hear anyone saying they are "afraid" of self-driving cars. Mostly it's that they don't work as well as we need them to, there are fuzzy/blurry lines between accountability and insurance, and overlapping it with EV modernization is not helping. Also, if Apple pulled funds from their AppleCar product - there's probably a strong indicator that we're nowhere near the self-driving revolution. I don't think we would mind, it's that it's not there yet. (Funny argument I heard was - police (or a hacker!) could stop your car or even cause a crash from a remote destination, and while it's true - it's highly unlikely). Nothing wrong with people wanting to have mechanical controls in their cars, and drive themselves. It's like a smart phone and a "dumb" phone. To each their own. Different products for different people.

[jcmount]

It is not the the self driving car.
Who has access to the data about where and when I go place.
It currently appears government will have full access to by travel habits.

[williambilyeu]

Where I live there are still horse drawn vehicles and carriage makers with so Amish here. I am a little upset about the abandonment of manual transmissions, or as some people like to call them millennial anti-highjacking systems. Now there are very few manual transmission cars, but they have made automatic transmissions easier to control.

[katydid]

I was nearly rear ended by one in AZ (test market). A fire truck was coming so everyone was pulling over. Except the driverless car behind me that was coming up on me too fast so I pulled up farther and it swerved around me then pulled over. Guess it didn’t “hear” the sirens.🙄

[JR-flyx]

Are we talking about cars with an "autopilot" feature that can still be manually driven, or cars that are exclusively self-driving? Because if it's the latter, not going to happen anytime soon. Cars still have to operate in snow, ice, and dirt roads, and if they have trouble navigating a "good" road it's going to be a long time before they can hold up to a bad one.

[robertkarp]

If the technology came out 50 years ago, it would be more easily accepted because things were made better. Today, we are experiencing a lot of vehicle recalls because of some failure. Vehicles are being made more cheaply and that is a problem. Company goes with a new sensor because it's cheaper than the sensor currently used and suddenly you have a failure. There's been some failures already: "The data, which was reported to the NHTSA beginning in July 2021, showed that Waymo vehicles had the highest number of crashes, 150, among vehicles equipped with automated driving systems.Aug 21, 2023" Compare that with the total numbers of Self driving autos on the road compared to human driven automobiles.

[Theggman]

If i wanted a self driving vehicle I'd buy a horse.

[joejohnson]

Just like auto pilot on aircraft the same will be done to self driving cars , but the question is can or will government or bad folks be able to take control of those vehicles . Imagine during a lockdown your car will not start thus not allowing you to be mobile . With every " smart "invention comes the possibility or probability that the government will have control over your device like when Calif took control of " smart " thermostats and raised the setting due to electrical shortages .

[Juicy-America]

While I sympathize with some of the concerns with self driving cars, I’m all for it. Even if the machines make mistakes every once in a while, they will almost certainly make less mistakes than the brain dead drivers that surround us.

[RTS-vf]

The horse was not the pilot of a carriage, it was essentially the drivetrain. A human was the pilot.

[PrussianZwei]

But as long as the government doesn't get in the way. The prices will drop". We wish government wouldn't get in the way all the time but that's one thing they're good at