We’ve all seen the futuristic visions of cars that drive themselves at incredible speeds, freeing humans from the need to navigate and be otherwise attentive to the trip. These self-driving cars would change our lives in many ways, and almost certainly make drunk driving accidents a thing of the past.
Maybe an owner could enable the blood alcohol content monitor in his car, disabling the manual override when the driver is intoxicated. The real interesting bit, though: Maybe this same BAC monitor would disable voice navigation during intoxication, or only accept a subset of locations. Imagine getting in your car completely trashed, and deciding you wanted to go to Mexico City. Next thing you know, you’ve passed out for 10 hours and wake up in the middle of Avenida Francisco Sosa. There’s an “oops” moment for you.
Interesting thoughts. In Minority Report, the director said he envisioned a world where people only drove manually for recreation. I kinda like that thought.
As for your drunk driver scenario, that would definitely be a good idea. Too many people drive drunk and far too many people die needlessly because of drunk drivers.
I think for right now, more money needs to be focused on more fuel-efficient cars, alternative fuel for cars, and convincing the public that SUVs aren’t cool
I agree with both of you. Except for the manual override of the destination. There is something that a lot of people enjoy about waking up and not knowing where they are.
I’ll settle for systems that system administrate themselves, and scripts that script themselves into existence. You know, because I can’t do all that myself. Too many crazy ideas, too little knowledge. Dangerous.
I would totally by a robotic car. It’s not putting me out of business as a driver, it’s freeing my time up for something else. Why should I have to pay attention to which route to take when they’ve closed all the direct routes from my home to my place of employment???
as we saw is I, Robot, manual overide comed in handy sometimes, all though the situation Spooner was in is high ly unprobable, who knows