Consumers Not Yet Convinced Driverless Cars Are Safer

January 19, 2017

  • January 19, 2017 at 1:33 pm
    Glennie says:
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    First, the techies want to take the fun out of driving. Will they try to take the fun out of sex next???

  • January 19, 2017 at 2:41 pm
    Dave says:
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    And these very same people feel safer in a car than a plane even though about 75 times more people die in car accidents than plane accidents. Sorry, but most consumers are idiots.

    • January 24, 2017 at 2:31 pm
      UW says:
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      He’s right, I don’t know why people voted this away. I don’t think driverless cars will work without government spending too much money on infrastructure changes but if they can without it they would be great. Trucks and highways seem like they are within reach soon.

  • January 20, 2017 at 10:23 am
    Ernie says:
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    Hackers can access my computer and the chip on my credit card, steal the code for my car remote and garage door opener. Install viruses, trojans, ransomware, etc.
    What’s going to stop them from hacking the control system for self-driving cars?

    • January 23, 2017 at 3:04 pm
      Confused says:
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      When was the last time a hacker brought down a plane (which uses technology to automate numerous parts of its flight & decent) solely by hacking its technology? If never is the answer, I don’t think you should be paranoid about cars being hacked.

  • January 21, 2017 at 5:05 am
    actu says:
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    These won’t ever work as advertised. They will easily work for assisted driving, but not for something you just get into and it drives you to your spot where you get out. If you have to be ready to grab the wheel at a seconds notice they are much worse than not having them, because people won’t be able to pay attention and react fast enough. They want massive infrastructure spending to help these companies when that money is better spent doing things like public transit.

    • January 24, 2017 at 4:27 pm
      Confused says:
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      I completely agree actu, but I think you’re lumping a few phases together.

      Phase 1 of autonomous vehicles was passive systems like lane departure warnings and blind spot warnings.

      Phase 2 is partial automation requiring human intervention, such as Tesla’s poorly named Autopilot system.

      Phase 3 requires both vehicle-to-vehicle technology and vehicle-to-infrastructure technology. We’re only in phase 2 now, and phase 3 is your “just get into the car and it drives you” phase. We’ll see if there’s enough cash thrown around to get Phase 3 running.



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