The Anti-Driverless Car Movement Strikes Back

“Hands-free driving. Cars that park themselves. An unmanned car driven by a search engine company. We’ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.”

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True freedom is not having to have your hands on the wheel at all times.

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15 Responses to The Anti-Driverless Car Movement Strikes Back

  1. C. P. Zilliacus says:

    The Antiplanner wrote:

    I just remind them that, when we have driverless cars, open-container laws will be a thing of the past and they can get their testosterone thrills with their girlfriends in the back seat of the car.

    I have long wondered about the above.

    Maybe not a perfect analogy, but prior to the 2009 multi-fatal wreck on the Red Line at Fort Totten, the Washington Metro system ran its trains in “automatic” (read: driverless) mode, with the operator responsible only for opening and closing doors at station stops. Still, Metro operators were supposed to be in possession of open containers or otherwise getting thrills, even though they were there (in part) to take action in case the automatic systems failed.

  2. Frank says:

    This from a government-sponsored company which has at least on two occasions been bailed out by the feds. Charger? Really? A 1970s muscle car? Have they learned NOTHING?

  3. C. P. Zilliacus says:

    C. P. Zilliacus posted:

    Still, Metro operators were supposed to be in possession of open containers or otherwise getting thrills, even though they were there (in part) to take action in case the automatic systems failed.

    Let’s add a missing word to the above.

    Still, Metro operators were not supposed to be in possession of open containers or otherwise getting thrills, even though they were there (in part) to take action in case the automatic systems failed.

  4. Iced Borscht says:

    I’m particularly interested in what commenter “Dan” has to say on this matter.

    You know what would be totally cool? If Dan were to log in and, like always, use those drawl-laden terms “guv-mint and “yew-ess-aye” as though he were an uneducated, anti-Smart Rail “white trash” libertarian.

    It’s so funny when he does that. LOL.

    Dan, you’re a comedy porcupine with those sharp quills. Zing! Never gets old! Never gets old!

  5. bennett says:

    Laying it on pretty thick from the “Unmitigated Ass-Whistles of Vivacity,” don’t you think?

  6. metrosucks says:

    Now you’ve gone and ruined Dan’s chance to do exactly that. He’s too shy to come out and say those things after you out him.

  7. Frank says:

    Here’s Dan’s response: “Think bout how marny dern gummitt blow jobs ya cud be givin wit dat darngum contrapshun drivin yer car!”

  8. Frank says:

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  9. the highwayman says:

    Again I still find it bizarre that a “libertarian” wants big brother driving his car.

  10. Highwayman,

    Big Brother doesn’t drive driverless cars anymore than Big Brother runs your computer or a smart phone. All the electronics are on-board the driverless cars. Buyers will no doubt be able to choose their operating systems (Apple iCar, Google AutoDroid, and Microsoft WinCars), and partially program those systems (maximum speeds, preferred routes, etc.). The government will have nothing more to do with it than it has to do with your current driving.

  11. metrosucks says:

    Highwayman didn’t have any legitimate concerns. He just wanted to have a go with a clever insult or two.

    I look forward to driver-less car technology. I imagine it will start similar to our express lanes in Seattle or the HOT lanes. A separate lane for driverless cars, with the supporting equipment in that lane to allow for higher speeds.

  12. the highwayman says:

    Big brother doesn’t have to be government.

  13. Frank says:

    Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the enigmatic dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian socialist state taken to its utmost logical consequence – where the ruling Party wield total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.

    In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, which is the core “truth” of the propaganda system in this state. Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term “Big Brother” has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties.

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  14. the highwayman says:

    Well then for your sake the USA has the best government money can buy!

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