US Transportation Department Calls For 'Summit' On Autonomous Cars (reuters.com) 38
Auto manufacturers, technology companies, road safety advocates and policy makers will attend a March 1 conference over potential government actions that could speed the rollout of autonomous cars, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Friday. Reuters reports: Next month's "summit" is to help "identify priority federal and non-federal activities that can accelerate the safe rollout" of autonomous vehicles, the department said. It will also be open to the public. The U.S. National Highway Traffic-Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants comments on what research to conduct before deciding whether to eliminate or rewrite regulations. It could take the agency years to finalize rule changes, and advocates are pushing Congress to act. The March 1 meeting at the department's headquarters in Washington will include "several stakeholder breakout sessions on various topics related to automation," NHTSA said.
Why does Slashdot keep pushing this? (Score:1)
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1. "Evil Russians"
2. Al non-stories
Some other SJW/marketing nonsense
Unfortunately, some like you learned neither reading comprehension or to be aware of silent agendas. I would like to know in this case what is with #2. Slashdot used to have good articles on, say, a change in how device tree overlays are handled, or an article on the current state of RESTful design. It is little to none of that anymore. The faux-editors don't know anything and have
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Your bitch tears are delicious, Beau is doing an excellent job of making your uneducated Republican faggots cry yourselves to death. If only you died faster and cried less somehow.
Beau? Is that you?
Sell them as a way to get home from the bar (Score:2)
No more DUI charges for me!
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As far as that goes,A few items that seems to be overlooked in the plans for an autonomous car rollout -
1. Who is Liable when there is no human driver,just an AI, in an accident? The Manufacturer? The rider? Who?
2.The robot drivers might be OK for the urban areas,but worse than useless in rural areas where even decent landline phones, reliable electric lines and paved roads are not always available,let alone a wireless grid to help guide the vehicles.
I live in Southeastern Kentucky,which clearly has Third W
Seems to me (Score:5, Interesting)
The tax payers should not be expected to just hand over public property at no charge or accept the cost of improving or operating a public property for the sole benefit of specific corporations.
For driver less cars to actually work, the roadways must be totally redesigned and embedded with some type of sensor network, etc. And driver less can not mix with self driven vehicles the way I see things going. Also, they will only work in the next 20-30 years in pristine conditions. Thus no snow, ice, heavy rains, etc.
Just my 2 cents
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I think it comes down to this.
"Other than that I have a problem with your assertion that tax payers should not be expected to pay for something. The only thing required from tax payers is to pay taxes. Nothing less and nothing more."
Not sure about all the Switzerland talk. So as a US citizen I am required to pay taxes (the government takes their cut, under the penalty of law,. not because I think the amount is right) but I should just trust and not comm
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There is literally nothing preventing you from going; making your voice heard; and seeing how and why your tax dollars are being spent.
If there IS something preventing you from doing that; you should REALLY go do something about that;
Rather than sitting at home typing incorrect responses to people you've never met; about problems you likely don't have; why not go *DO* something that makes a difference?
What, do you actually think nobody is trying?
Try Googling "stonewalls FOIA requests". Some don't respond, some just flat out tell you you've received everything you're going to get from them, which is typically "no responsive documents" when it's obvious from other sources and evidence that relevant documents most certainly do exist. The courts and lawyers slow-walk it such that you'd grow old waiting for a resolution with endless stays, reschedules, motions, appeals, etc etc etc.
Hell, the US Congress often
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How are trains at parallel parking?
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UNless the corporation is a utility company, heavily regulated.
Turn Signals! (Score:2)
I canâ(TM)t wait for AI so we can have cars using turn signals again like they were decades ago.
Iâ(TM)ve been out of the country for a while, so I didnâ(TM)t realize that American car companies stopped installing turn signals.
Will AI cars rush as fast as possible from red light to red light, just so the passengers can get home really, really fast, so they can sit on the couch and eat potato chips?
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This is the 21st Century. We come home and eat nachos.
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Will AI cars rush as fast as possible from red light to red light
No. They will stop and wait patiently for the homeless people pushing shopping carts down the middle of the street. No automated horn or recording of "Move it, dirtbag!"
Doomed to fail (Score:2)
Now that the government is involved, this will make things all better. /sarc
I've Seen This Movie (Score:2)
During the summit, an autonomous car bursts into the room and kills everyone. Thus, starts the war between the Autobots and humanity.
What's that you say, the Autobots were the good guys? Michael Bay must've been paid off to repeat that propaganda.