KMixson said:
It was hard to see her with the car camera's view that I saw.
There are thermal and infrared sensors that can be fitted to the car, eliminating this problem.
KMixson said:
or was the daring type that will walk in front of a moving car expecting the car to stop for their progress. There are a lot of that type of people here in Charleston. They will walk out in front of you and dare you hit them. They will suddenly stop in your lane of travel and glare at you. They will then very slowly move out of your way to let you go on your way.
These people need to get hit, in order to remind them about the laws of physics, and human abilities or inabilities.
This is also what pedestrian right-of-way laws do for/to us all. Give a pedestrian, or cyclist, full authority, and you'll get an increasing number who abuse the privilege. Our neighboring city of Cedar Falls, ( a college town) for example, passed an ordinance a few years ago, that allowed cyclists the right to use the full width of a traffic lane. This has resulted in groups of cyclists riding four abreast, at a leisurely 4MPH, chatting back and forth, oblivious to the fact that they're holding motor traffic back from making real progress. Oh, and these cyclists pay no road use taxes for this privilege.
Now, as to autonomous cars. I'm an industrial maintenance electrician, and the machinery I work on has an increasing number of sensors on them as time goes on. If there's one thing I've learned in my time at this, it's that if man can build it, it
will break, and more often, while you're trying to use it. I don't strap my not-so-little pink backside into carnival rides for just that reason. I would arbitrarily outlaw autonomous cars for that alone. Now, add hackers into the equation, and you have a recipe for disaster. Just a modicum of conspiracy theorist will get you a government assassinating folks in a "faulty" auto-car, with a reasonable dose of plausible deniability.
Just my 2-pence.....Roger
