cqaigy2
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Parking fees and tickets are holding those cities together?
Driverless Cars
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Parking fees and tickets are holding those cities together?
Travelover
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Ironically, an all autonomous vehicle system would probably drive the yearly traffic 30,000+ death toll way, way down. But the minute one person dies as a result of a malfunction, everyone will go nuts. Conversely if we had initially had autonomous vehicles and someone suggested to just let everyone drive willy-nilly that would seem crazy. Change is hard.
Thanks, I don't think I've ever actually seen the video of the event.
I recall sitting in my car at lunchtime later that week, listening to an aviation expert discussing the crash. He was illustrating the new world of fly by wire with examples. One concerned limits on pilot maneuvers - at a certain angle of banking, the computer would decide "no, that exceeds civil aviation limits, all you get is xy degrees, maximum) - normally no pilot would put a plane into that extreme of a position, but with fly by wire, the option during emergencies is removed.
If I want to avoid a sudden on-road problem (ex. truck drops an axle, and stops NOW), with what I drive today I can drive into a field, or onto a lawn etc to avoid a worse impact. Will future vehicle systems still allow (without delay) such actions ?
Rgds, D.
Depends on the city...... I know that the police budget in Toronto surpassed $1Billion/year, and many northern cities have serious infrastructure problems - just keeping up with roads/bridges burns up tons of money, for starters....
Despite many pols liking to cast conventional vehicles as evil, that Wired article recaps how virtually all levels of govt love to tax the __________ out of those same evil items.
I can see lobbying coming up....... "Driverless cars must have at least one passenger", etc.....
Rgds, D.
As I probably posted earlier - once I thought about where the bar is set (real-world) for humans, I revised my thinking about how fast these technologies are going to be rolled out.
I'm generally not a fan of Lowest Common Denominator thinking, but ^, it is what it is.....
Rgds, D.
cqaigy2
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This situation isn't what you describe, but some years ago. A neighbors son was telling me of an accident he had gotten into with his pickup. He had been driving downtown, during a busy night, when another vehicle swerved into his lane. He reacted by swerving to his right, away from the vehicle, into a power pole on the sidewalk. He said that if it hadn't been for the power pole, he probably would not had any damage to his pickup. I said, that it could be that the power pole kept him from running people over, that were walking on the sidewalk. He kinda blanched, and said, 'maybe so, as it had been a very busy night'.
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Different topic, but I'm ok with a bit of drift......
People make mistakes too, and esp. with loading trailers....... Youtube could run a channel on nothing but trailer loading goof ups.....
A friend of mine had a truck and trailer roll away years ago. He was loading a car on a trailer on a sloped road, and didn't chock any wheels. Pickup was 2wd, so when the car (heavy older one) got enough load on the back of the trailer, it lifted the rear wheels of the pu enough so that the truck and trailer started rolling down the hill on the front wheels of the truck and trailer wheels.
Nobody hurt, and minimal equipment damage, but it's a lesson he'll never forget.....
Rgds, D.