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Re: GM Announces Autonomously Driven Car

I have to agree with sanddrag, even though it is real neat that they've gotten cars to drive autonomously; having a computer-driven robot means a lot of new possibilities, and not all are good. In addition to the things sanddrag said above, now you've given just about everyone the ability to drive, that means those who really shouldn't be driving (like really young kids that get hyped up about racing after playing one too many video games) the ability to drive. Sure you could say that the car will be full-auto pilot and not let anyone influence the car's driving, but I just have a gut feeling that making driving even easier than it is currently, is not a good thing.

As if we need more lazy drivers =P, again like sanddrag said. In fact, today while driving home (I live in the bay area, btw) from a friend's house, while I was on the on-ramp to 101 north from the 85 north junction, a white honda civic just merged full speed ahead right NEXT to my car -- he/she basically merged into my lane and would have rammed directly into my car. Wouldn't have been pretty, but I swerved away and the driver STILL didn't notice until the car behind me almost hit him (who also swerved out of the way), then the civic steers into the shoulder and into the dirt. I drive a pretty big SUV too, I don't see how he could have not seen me -- I would have crushed his car pretty badly as well. Gah... lazy drivers.
Driving probably is one of the things that really should not be done by a computer. Just my opinion...
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