Self Driving Cars

Rasty · Mar 17th 2016, 3:50pm

The ultimate hiker vehicle.

The self driving cart could be the ultimate hiker vehicle.

1) You can sleep in the car on the way to the trail. Those that live eight hours away from the trail can sleep though the night and be rested upon arrival.
2) Your car can meet you at road crossings with cold beer or supplies.

jimmyjam · Mar 17th 2016, 5:58pm

I like it. I could have my car shuttle me and meet me with cheeseburgers and beer and help the economy if it'd made in the USA- a Win Win.

A Self Indulging Self Supported Slack Pack. And a maybe a new kind of FKT.

Sarcasmtheelf · Mar 17th 2016, 6:20pm

If a self driving car has ethanol in the tank, would the vehicle get cited for having an open container? gif.014.gif

jimmyjam · Mar 17th 2016, 6:29pm

SarcasmTheElf wrote:

If a self driving car has ethanol in the tank, would the vehicle get cited for having an open container?

I dunno but you could siphon off some for your stove- multipurpose gear!!!

Drybones · Mar 17th 2016, 8:49pm

Every woman should have a self driven car.

IMScotty · Mar 18th 2016, 7:53pm

I hate to be a wet blanket on your for fun thread, but I see self driving cars as just another symptom of our increasingly infantilized and dependent society. I hate the idea.

Along that line the major automakers have announced that all cars they produce by 2022 will be 'Self Braking.' Yes, I really hate that idea too. Here is an article which discusses the self braking car...

ericpetersautos.com/2016/03/17/car-biz-goes-full-clover/

When did we become a nation that sacrifices personal freedoms and independence in the name of 'safety.'

Drybones · Mar 19th 2016, 8:29am

IMScotty wrote:

I hate to be a wet blanket on your for fun thread, but I see self driving cars as just another symptom of our increasingly infantilized and dependent society. I hate the idea.

Along that line the major automakers have announced that all cars they produce by 2022 will be 'Self Braking.' Yes, I really hate that idea too. Here is an article which discusses the self braking car...

ericpetersautos.com/2016/03/17/car-biz-goes-full-clover/

When did we become a nation that sacrifices personal freedoms and independence in the name of 'safety.'

I'd trust those brakes just as much as I trust my elected officials to do what they said they would do when they were running for office.

max.patch · Mar 19th 2016, 1:08pm

as long as we continue to have ineffective laws that allow drunks to get behind the wheel, and allow people to check their facebook status while driving, then having cars that will attempt to brake instead of ramming me in the rear is fine with me.

WanderingStovie · Mar 19th 2016, 1:59pm

SarcasmTheElf wrote:

If a self driving car has ethanol in the tank, would the vehicle get cited for having an open container?

Only if you lose the gas cap.

Dan76 · Mar 22nd 2016, 11:05pm

Still haven't received an answer. How will a SDC decide between hitting a bicyclist or a pedestrian if time/speed/distance criteria provide no option for avoidance.

Rasty · Mar 23rd 2016, 7:31am

Dan76 wrote:

Still haven't received an answer. How will a SDC decide between hitting a bicyclist or a pedestrian if time/speed/distance criteria provide no option for avoidance.

It will determine the age and hit the older one

Socks · Mar 23rd 2016, 8:15am

Rasty wrote:

Dan76 wrote:

Still haven't received an answer. How will a SDC decide between hitting a bicyclist or a pedestrian if time/speed/distance criteria provide no option for avoidance.

It will determine the age and hit the older one

Just like death race 2000, and ya get bonus points if there in wheeled chairs.

Drybones · Mar 29th 2016, 5:44pm

Dan76 wrote:

Still haven't received an answer. How will a SDC decide between hitting a bicyclist or a pedestrian if time/speed/distance criteria provide no option for avoidance.

Kill them all

Drybones · Mar 29th 2016, 5:46pm

Rasty wrote:

Dan76 wrote:

Still haven't received an answer. How will a SDC decide between hitting a bicyclist or a pedestrian if time/speed/distance criteria provide no option for avoidance.

It will determine the age and hit the older one

brown nosers tell me I look 45...does that count?

Sarcasmtheelf · Mar 29th 2016, 5:55pm

Still haven't received an answer. How will a SDC decide between hitting a bicyclist or a pedestrian if time/speed/distance criteria provide no option for avoidance.

Dan76 wrote:

The odds of a self driving vehicle being in that position is almost inconsequential compared to the liklihood of a person driving getting into the same situation. Self driving cars are able to monitor for hazards 360 degrees around the vehicle and are designed to be overly cautious. In all likelyhood the only thing a self driving car will do to you is drive you nuts for going too slow.

Here's an entertaining but oversimplified review of the google car.

theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car

LIhikers · Mar 29th 2016, 7:40pm

IMScotty wrote:

I hate to be a wet blanket on your for fun thread, but I see self driving cars as just another symptom of our increasingly infantilized and dependent society. I hate the idea.

Along that line the major automakers have announced that all cars they produce by 2022 will be 'Self Braking.' Yes, I really hate that idea too. Here is an article which discusses the self braking car...

ericpetersautos.com/2016/03/17/car-biz-goes-full-clover/

When did we become a nation that sacrifices personal freedoms and independence in the name of 'safety.'

We lost that battle many years ago when seatbelts became mandatory.
And the automotive world isn't the only place that is happening.

Drybones · Mar 29th 2016, 9:12pm

Dan76 wrote:

Still haven't received an answer. How will a SDC decide between hitting a bicyclist or a pedestrian if time/speed/distance criteria provide no option for avoidance.

I'll give you another situation, real life for me: I'm going down the road with a truck in front of me with side boards and stuff stacked up so I can't see past him, drizzling rain, driving 50, in a hurry and wanting to pass, truck in front of me hits the brakes and starts o fish tail, I glance to the right for a place to bail if needed, truck does a sharp right into a pasture and there's a car passing an 18 wheeler about to hit me head on, 18 wheeler to the left, car in my lane doing probably 65+, micro seconds away...what do you do? I was in a Tundra 4-door, biggest truck on the road, the 18-wheeler filled the left lane, a car dead ahead in my lane...by all rights I should have gone off the road to the right but went into the center between the two vehicles...do the math...my truck fills a lane, 18-wheeler fills a lane...it should have been bye bye Drybones...got the front of my truck through and thought I'd made it all the way when the car coming head on hit my back tires knocking the axle off but no injuries to me...I would tell you how I made it through that but I believe no religious topics are permitted here.

JimBlue · Mar 29th 2016, 10:01pm

There are science fiction stories about self-driving cars that can protect themselves. Some update alters the car's computer and it thinks anyone in the car is a danger and kills them.

Dan76 · Apr 1st 2016, 4:27pm

JimBlue wrote:

There are science fiction stories about self-driving cars that can protect themselves. Some update alters the car's computer and it thinks anyone in the car is a danger and kills them.

Issaic Asimov

Drybones · Apr 1st 2016, 4:37pm

JimBlue wrote:

There are science fiction stories about self-driving cars that can protect themselves. Some update alters the car's computer and it thinks anyone in the car is a danger and kills them.

You think we could get one of those to do shuttles around the capital building in DC?

Dan76 · Apr 1st 2016, 4:42pm

Drybones wrote:

JimBlue wrote:

There are science fiction stories about self-driving cars that can protect themselves. Some update alters the car's computer and it thinks anyone in the car is a danger and kills them.

You think we could get one of those to do shuttles around the capital building in DC?

I'd settle for one shuttling UT legislators.

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