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Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

alternatively put machine guns on the cars, or a cow catcher :black101:

# ? Jun 18, 2015 03:40

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 14:21

the worst thing is: Oct 3, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

you don't need police officers if you make driving your own car illegal besides for random scans to make sure nobody is illegally driving themselves, the car will get updates from the police department on road conditions and respond accordingly. you will never pass a law like that in a billion years, but it's not completely impossible to see a way around it. cyclists and pedestrians are harder but the probably simplest way to handle that is just to have the car stop as soon as a human traveling in front of it or potentially doing so is detected. of course, that's abusable... and you'd probably handle it the same way you'd handle some jackass standing in front of your car in the driveway, call the cops and have them come by or get out of the car and handle it yourself

Hmm a brave new world.. Who owns the self driving cars??

# ? Jun 18, 2015 03:41

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

Tautologicus posted:

Hmm a brave new world.. Who owns the self driving cars??

read that as "who drives the self-owning cars" first time

# ? Jun 18, 2015 03:45

lite frisk: Oct 5, 2013

^ lol

Noblesse Obliged posted:

bitch..you cant even text and drive without crashing into poo poo and you think you gonna react from swiping tinder profiles or playing Candy Crush and realize what the gently caress is going on before you're sailing through the windshield and the Google car makes sure that within 15 minutes that Personal Injury litigation spam starts bombarding your inbox lol

i guess when you put it that way it all makes sense how i'll be sailing through the windshield going 100km/h in an urban area lmbo

# ? Jun 18, 2015 03:47

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

I'm Ok with the self-driving car concept if it includes Robert Picardo voice acting.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 03:48

the worst thing is: Oct 3, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

read that as "who drives the self-owning cars" first time

Entirely autonomous self driving cars..thatd be the day. They pick you up when they feel like it.. And they repair themselves with the power of the sun.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 03:55

Ignatius M. Meen: May 26, 2011; Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

Tautologicus posted:

Hmm a brave new world.. Who owns the self driving cars??

poo poo, good question. there'd probably be a less impossible chance of that kind of law passing on this planet if they were just leased out to people and technically still owned by the company that bought them if only for the lobby power and total racket potential. in the socialist welfare dimension it'd probably be the government though

e: assuming socialist welfare dimension hasn't just banned cars of course lol

# ? Jun 18, 2015 03:55

the worst thing is: Oct 3, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

poo poo, good question. there'd probably be a less impossible chance of that kind of law passing on this planet if they were just leased out to people and technically still owned by the company that bought them if only for the lobby power and total racket potential. in the socialist welfare dimension it'd probably be the government though

e: assuming socialist welfare dimension hasn't just banned cars of course lol

Yea well someones gonna have to figure that part out, because the default situation will be corporate overlording. When no one has the bright ideas + courage to implement them, naked greed and self interest is usually the safe fallback. Ill be watching from atop my 10 foot high unicycle, far from the rabble below.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 04:10

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

ill be using my sweet grappling hook gun and swinging everywhere

*hooks a power line* *BZZZT*

# ? Jun 18, 2015 04:12

glowstick party tonight: Oct 4, 2003; by zen death robot

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

medicool bills, that's how no-fault works.

hosed up if true

obama strikes again

# ? Jun 18, 2015 04:13

kazr: Jan 28, 2005

i, for one enjoy the experience of waiting 45 minutes for a taxi and paying twenty dollars plus tip to get home

# ? Jun 18, 2015 05:21

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

City of Tampa posted:

I still don't see how paying a dude to give me a ride somewhere is undermining this

Yeah that's what I was saying, you personally shouldn't use Uber. :jerkbag:

Also I don't think FL should be a model for anything.

Magnitogorsk. posted:

Saying "government regulation is good" is as ridiculous as republicans whose entire platform is "government is bad"

no, not really

# ? Jun 18, 2015 06:26

pathetic little tramp: Dec 12, 2005; by Hillary Clinton's assassins; Fallen Rib

Tautologicus posted:

Self driving cars in urban environments arent even possible without layers upon layers of interdependent technologies that introduce countless complications and catastrophic scenarios if any one of them breaks even for a second. Algorithmic autonomous city driving isnt feasible without friend of the family-rigging it somewhere, like having some onstar type tech guy in a room driving them through the most difficult scenarios (most of urban driving)

There was a story about 6 months ago about a self-driving car that TOTALLY DROVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY ITSELF!*

*The caveat was it only drove itself on highways but needed a human to drive it on streets beyond that, which is the most non-achievement ever. I can make a car that drives itself on the highway:

function go(){
if brakelights === in front {slow to stop}
else {fuckin go}
}

# ? Jun 18, 2015 17:31

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

pathetic little tramp posted:

There was a story about 6 months ago about a self-driving car that TOTALLY DROVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY ITSELF!*

*The caveat was it only drove itself on highways but needed a human to drive it on streets beyond that, which is the most non-achievement ever. I can make a car that drives itself on the highway:

function go(){
if brakelights === in front {slow to stop}
else {fuckin go}
}

afaik most new luxury cars do that with their cruise control lol

I know my dad's lexus does. uses a sensor to measure the distance and speed and poo poo of the car in front of you though

# ? Jun 18, 2015 17:33

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

NakedWithCandy posted:

It is pretty easy to disrupt an industry when you just ignore all laws and regulations.

this is a good point.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 17:35

the worst thing is: Oct 3, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

pathetic little tramp posted:

There was a story about 6 months ago about a self-driving car that TOTALLY DROVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY ITSELF!*

*The caveat was it only drove itself on highways but needed a human to drive it on streets beyond that, which is the most non-achievement ever. I can make a car that drives itself on the highway:

function go(){
if brakelights === in front {slow to stop}
else {fuckin go}
}

Seriously

# ? Jun 18, 2015 18:07

pathetic little tramp: Dec 12, 2005; by Hillary Clinton's assassins; Fallen Rib

humans are way too trusting of technology too, look at these dumbasses just stand right in the way of a self-driving car so they can tweet about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8nnhUCtcO8

# ? Jun 18, 2015 18:13

Magnitogorsk.: Nov 14, 2004; Global warming is barely a big deal at all compared to the trajectory we used to be on. We'll have to do a lot of environmental engineering projects along certain shorelines and it will be a little warmer and wetter in some places, big fucking deal.

I, a liberal arts failure on a dead internet forum, can't solve these challenging computer vision problems therefore the greatest computer vision scientists in the world backed by billions of dollars will never be able to, ever

# ? Jun 18, 2015 18:58

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

Magnitogorsk. posted:

I, a liberal arts failure on a dead internet forum, can't solve these challenging computer vision problems therefore the greatest computer vision scientists in the world backed by billions of dollars will never be able to, ever

this but unironically

# ? Jun 18, 2015 19:22

City of Tampa: May 6, 2007; by zen death robot

It's gonna be fun cutting off self-driving cars and brake-checking them, because you know that the computer will react quick enough to keep the car from hitting you, so you can just scare the hell out of it's passengers.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 19:23

ArbitraryC: Jan 28, 2009; Pick a number, any number; Pillbug

kazr posted:

i, for one enjoy the experience of waiting 45 minutes for a taxi and paying twenty dollars plus tip to get home

Where the gently caress do the people who keep crying about this made up bullshit live? I drink way too much and have done so in both smaller towns and big cities, in large cities there are always cabs just circling night life streets you can hop right into. Ride home with a group of friends and end up being out like 5 bucks each when you split it. In small towns you might have to call a cab i guess but usually you can find a dd or just walk to the bars and its certainly not going to be that long of a wait or that high of a bill.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 19:54

the worst thing is: Oct 3, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Late night weekends in boston (and nyc) it is impossible to get a taxi at night sometimes. Thats when the gypsy cabs and now the uber cars pick up the slack.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 20:14

Bored: Jul 26, 2007; Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Moridin920 posted:

this is the dumbest argument anyway because I'm arguing with people who don't even accept the basic premise that government regulation is a good thing despite the last 300 years of human history

secede and you can eat all the rust chips in your red pepper flakes you want, sorry CA isn't a shithole state like Kansas.

Hey now. Dairy farmers still have to pasteurize their milk to sell it in Kansas. One of my mom's friends had a dairy goat farm and pretty much only sold her goat's milk to private customers, but she still had inspections regularly.

But yeah. Kansas is still a shithole and I don't wanna move back ever.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 20:24

GABA ghoul: Oct 29, 2011

pathetic little tramp posted:

There was a story about 6 months ago about a self-driving car that TOTALLY DROVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY ITSELF!*

*The caveat was it only drove itself on highways but needed a human to drive it on streets beyond that, which is the most non-achievement ever. I can make a car that drives itself on the highway:

function go(){
if brakelights === in front {slow to stop}
else {fuckin go}
}

I'm not sure how you function would react in a scenario like this:

you suddenly detect people in front of you on both lanes. there is not enough time to brake but you can avoid hitting one of them by a steering decision. person in the left lane is a VERY hot brunette, but the person in the right lane has a cure for AIDS with him. to make things worse, you detect that the chick is a famous convicted war criminal and that the AIDS cure has never been shown to work reliably in large clinical trials. you have 230 ms to make a choice.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 21:05

Soylent Yellow: Nov 5, 2010; yospos

waitwhatno posted:

I'm not sure how you function would react in a scenario like this:

you suddenly detect people in front of you on both lanes. there is not enough time to brake but you can avoid hitting one of them by a steering decision. person in the left lane is a VERY hot brunette, but the person in the right lane has a cure for AIDS with him. to make things worse, you detect that the chick is a famous convicted war criminal and that the AIDS cure has never been shown to work reliably in large clinical trials. you have 230 ms to make a choice.

Swerve in such a way as to catch both of them. -1 war criminal, and AIDS depopulates Africa and Asia, solving the overpopulation crisis.

# ? Jun 18, 2015 21:14

Mr. Merdle: Oct 17, 2007; THE GREAT MANBABY SUCCESSOR

numberoneposter posted:

just buy a bike you lazy fat fucks

# ? Jun 18, 2015 21:27

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 14:21

GABA ghoul: Oct 29, 2011

Soylent Yellow posted:

Swerve in such a way as to catch both of them. -1 war criminal, and AIDS depopulates Africa and Asia, solving the overpopulation crisis.

void InitiateAfricanGenocide(bool the_beauty_of_the_white_woman_shall_not_perish_from_this_world)

# ? Jun 18, 2015 21:33

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