07-08-2018, 03:32 AM
(07-07-2018, 12:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Self-driving cars will make travel, especially long-distance travel. less expensive. With fewer collisions they will have lower insurance rates. They will allow people with such conditions as narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and epilepsy to drive. -- well, more technically, take a car. They will allow people to command a car after those people are no longer fit to drive. They will lead to fewer traffic tickets for speeding, red-light violations, and stop-sign violations.
The problem is who controls the software and so ultimately controls the car. You might want to consider what [URL="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201611/are-we-forfeiting-control-over-our-digital-lives"]Richard Stallman has to say about such things. Then there is the little matter of vulnerabilities that exist in all software that could be used by the malicious.
As usual pbrower is incapable of thinking beyond the obvious.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises