Current Events > Thanks vin disel and GM for keeping the push for self driving cars down

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Fear mongering through popular movies is usually effective to sway popular opinion despite the lack of realistic ways to do what the movies do.

F8te of the furious spoilers they hack every self driving car in New York city to cause a massive traffic accident

Maybe Elon Musk can fund a movie called slow and serious starring Micheal Cera as he has his tesla safely drive him to work.
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They're doing us a favor
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I Like Toast posted...

Fear mongering through popular movies is usually effective to sway popular opinion despite the lack of realistic ways to do what the movies do.

We're going to be seeing a lot more of it, aren't we?
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When the average person thinks that a Ddos attack on the CIA website means that the "CIA got hacked!", it's not hard to mislead people.
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I am Groot.

I Like Toast posted...

slow and serious

I quite like this name
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I Like Toast posted...

slow and serious starring Micheal Cera as he has his tesla safely drive him to work.

Would watch this in theaters twice
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rkman427 posted...

I Like Toast posted...

slow and serious starring Micheal Cera as he has his tesla safely drive him to work.

Would watch this in theaters twice

Add in Jesse Eisenberg and I'd see it three times.
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It sucks for me to ride in a car w/o driving it. Like idk what it is. Just sitting there sucks and is boring. I need to be driving. Like I've really noticed on trips the difference between being the driver or a passenger and how much it sucks.
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Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
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Caution999 posted...

Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?

We do!
We do!

self-driving cars are an abomination
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yes more movies need michael cera
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It's is not unrealistic to hack cars
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StarsOfCCTV posted...

It's is not unrealistic to hack cars

you should watch the movie so you understand what's being discussed. Otherwise, Hodor.
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I Like Toast posted...

Maybe Elon Musk can fund a movie called slow and serious starring Micheal Cera as he has his tesla safely drive him to work.

XD
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@__aCEr__ posted...

I am Groot.

Hi Groot.
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Stuff like that is why I'll always be adamantly against self-driving cars. I've seen all my other electronics screw up in various ways way too often to wanna put my faith in something like that to drive me around at highway speeds. I don't even like letting my friends drive me around. I guess I'm a bit of a control freak.
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I'm positive that once self driving cars become popular people will start hacking them and hijacking them to kidnap people and other crazy stuff

Trigg3rH4ppy posted...

They're doing us a favor

Indeed. As long as vehicles have to communicate with one another, a signal can be hijacked.
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more like a motion sickness machine; I can't do anything on a moving vehicle except drive
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I once brought a book for a 3 hour bus ride and I couldn't read it ._.
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I mean it's no secret that GM is on every "worst companies in the world" list.
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People will probably just screw around on their phones in their cars for a while
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Keep self driving cars off the road, they are not the answer to traffic or safer roads.

Don't allow this bs to succeed, driving is something that should not be left to a machine.
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well, his last name is diesel
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Lmao at using a Boeing 767 with EWACS as a hacker's fortress

stoltenberg11 posted...

Stuff like that is why I'll always be adamantly against self-driving cars. I've seen all my other electronics screw up in various ways way too often to wanna put my faith in something like that to drive me around at highway speeds. I don't even like letting my friends drive me around. I guess I'm a bit of a control freak.

Your daily life is at the mercy of electronics though. The elevators, ATMs, traffic lights, airplanes

You are NOT in control and you have to realize that self driving cars will make less mistakes than human beings
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SoundNetwork posted...

You are NOT in control and you have to realize that self driving cars will make less mistakes than human beings

i dont even care about mistakes i just like the idea of it eliminating MOST traffic.
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Self-driving cars can't come soon enough. It's the only innovation in automobiles I care about other than recent safety features.
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recalculating lol
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Self driving cars are for pussies.
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I hate driving, so I'd really like them to be made. I feel so much more comfortable when I am not in control of a vehicle. Having to pay attention to everything else in or around the road sucks.
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If you're concerned about safety, that's one thing. But I always love the people who think that as soon as self-driving cars are out, their precious stone age car will just disintegrate and they will never be able to drive it again.
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DevsBro posted...

If you're concerned about safety, that's one thing. But I always love the people who think that as soon as self-driving cars are out, their precious stone age car will just disintegrate and they will never be able to drive it again.

well, until someone passes a law that bans all regular cars from the road and there's nothing you can do because driving is a privilege
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I dunno they should probably pass a law banning horses first.

I'm sure there's such a law in some places but it's still perfectly fine in plenty of places, though of course subject to relevant traffic laws with a few extra regulations.
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DevsBro posted...

their precious stone age car will just disintegrate and they will never be able to drive it again.

while i'm confident it won't happen in my life time, it's the inevitable result.

DevsBro posted...

I dunno they should probably pass a law banning horses first.

I'm sure there's such a law in some places but it's still perfectly fine in plenty of places

try taking a horse on the highway
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real talk, if self-driving cars do become a thing and you can't drive a car ever again I hope I'm dead by the time that happens
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SoundNetwork posted...

stoltenberg11 posted...

Stuff like that is why I'll always be adamantly against self-driving cars. I've seen all my other electronics screw up in various ways way too often to wanna put my faith in something like that to drive me around at highway speeds. I don't even like letting my friends drive me around. I guess I'm a bit of a control freak.

Your daily life is at the mercy of electronics though. The elevators, ATMs, traffic lights, airplanes

You are NOT in control and you have to realize that self driving cars will make less mistakes than human beings

The machines may not make mistakes... but who builds the machines?

If the machines follow the programming, and the programming has errors; what happens? They do not make 'mistakes' but mistakes will happen.
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MaverickXeo posted...

SoundNetwork posted...

stoltenberg11 posted...

Stuff like that is why I'll always be adamantly against self-driving cars. I've seen all my other electronics screw up in various ways way too often to wanna put my faith in something like that to drive me around at highway speeds. I don't even like letting my friends drive me around. I guess I'm a bit of a control freak.

Your daily life is at the mercy of electronics though. The elevators, ATMs, traffic lights, airplanes

You are NOT in control and you have to realize that self driving cars will make less mistakes than human beings

The machines may not make mistakes... but who builds the machines?

If the machines follow the programming, and the programming has errors; what happens? They do not make 'mistakes' but mistakes will happen.

Mistakes will happen, yes.

But far less often than human error.
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Once upon a time, the first cars were seen as a menace to society and car manufacturers had to fight tooth and nail to convince the masses that they were beneficial.
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Eagle Eye and I, Robot already did this. And Minority Report.
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Funkydog posted...

But far less often than human error.

Source not required.

MaverickXeo posted...

The machines may not make mistakes

the machines may not make 'mistakes' but the machines sure do break and when those things break, you need a person to be in control.

And auto driving cars still have issues with bad weather, both in their ability to control in it but also their ability to 'read' the road.
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Funkydog posted...

MaverickXeo posted...

SoundNetwork posted...

stoltenberg11 posted...

Stuff like that is why I'll always be adamantly against self-driving cars. I've seen all my other electronics screw up in various ways way too often to wanna put my faith in something like that to drive me around at highway speeds. I don't even like letting my friends drive me around. I guess I'm a bit of a control freak.

Your daily life is at the mercy of electronics though. The elevators, ATMs, traffic lights, airplanes

You are NOT in control and you have to realize that self driving cars will make less mistakes than human beings

The machines may not make mistakes... but who builds the machines?

If the machines follow the programming, and the programming has errors; what happens? They do not make 'mistakes' but mistakes will happen.

Mistakes will happen, yes.

But far less often than human error.

I dont think you understand my point.

Mistakes will be made by humans even with self driving cars as they are programmed and built by humans. Instead of placing each individual at the 'risk' of making a mistake, you put the risk on the designers, etc.
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SoundNetwork posted...

Your daily life is at the mercy of electronics though. The elevators, ATMs, traffic lights, airplanes

Stop lights are the only thing there that affects most people's lives daily, and I'd be willing to bet that the technology for operating a stop light is much simpler than the technology for operating a self-driving car. Elevator fear is a legit thing some people have and they choose to take the stairs instead.
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