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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 2414055" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>I find all the talk of self driving trucks to be a bit disturbing. Not because they could one day replace me, which I do feel is unlikely in the 25 years I have left to drive, but that the race to self driving vehicles will end up in getting people killed like the man in the Tesla. There are simply too many situations where the judgement of a human outweighs that of a software program. In the Tesla situation the car simply did not see that huge semi truck in front of it. As we all know anything built by a human can and will fail, and the electronic devices enabling a self driving car will not be immune to this simple fact. Planes have had auto pilots for years which do control a lot of the factors of flight these days, yet we still have humans in the cockpit to take over incase of failure or if the plane ends up in conditions that are beyond the autopilot's ability to compensate. Then of course we have the issue of hacking and terrorism. What if some person or group is able to take control of the millions of self driving cars that are in this supposed future, and as Ford has indicated will have no means for the humans inside to take control, who will watch helplessly as they are turned into 3k lb. battering rams running into each other, other people, and structures. Finally, I think we can all agree that as a species we are horribly flawed, and my question to anyone who believes this is our future how can we, as a flawed people, create something that has to be flawless and do so by the millions. </p><p></p><p>The question isn't whether self driving vehicles are in the near future, the question should be how many of our lives are expendable in the eyes of the ego driven maniacs who really believe they can create a perfectly flawless machine to move us around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 2414055, member: 249"] I find all the talk of self driving trucks to be a bit disturbing. Not because they could one day replace me, which I do feel is unlikely in the 25 years I have left to drive, but that the race to self driving vehicles will end up in getting people killed like the man in the Tesla. There are simply too many situations where the judgement of a human outweighs that of a software program. In the Tesla situation the car simply did not see that huge semi truck in front of it. As we all know anything built by a human can and will fail, and the electronic devices enabling a self driving car will not be immune to this simple fact. Planes have had auto pilots for years which do control a lot of the factors of flight these days, yet we still have humans in the cockpit to take over incase of failure or if the plane ends up in conditions that are beyond the autopilot's ability to compensate. Then of course we have the issue of hacking and terrorism. What if some person or group is able to take control of the millions of self driving cars that are in this supposed future, and as Ford has indicated will have no means for the humans inside to take control, who will watch helplessly as they are turned into 3k lb. battering rams running into each other, other people, and structures. Finally, I think we can all agree that as a species we are horribly flawed, and my question to anyone who believes this is our future how can we, as a flawed people, create something that has to be flawless and do so by the millions. The question isn't whether self driving vehicles are in the near future, the question should be how many of our lives are expendable in the eyes of the ego driven maniacs who really believe they can create a perfectly flawless machine to move us around. [/QUOTE]
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