Smucky wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 11:33 pm I remember circa 2006 debating in some thread on rage3d about the future of self driving cars. I argued that it would never happen. There are simply too many scenarios where a driver would have to make the choice of driving into oncoming traffic, or running over a pedestrian, or driving down a ravine. You know, say if a log fell off of a truck or a giant rock lands in the middle of the road,etc. Now a person can freely make a choice and more than likely won't have to worry about getting sued. But throw a machine into the works, and now there is company liability. A company certainly wouldn't be able to survive the onslaught of litigation. Plus our government would step in with regulations. But that was before I knew our government doesn't make regulations, companies pay the government to make regulations to create vendor lock-in, etc.

Not sure how tesla is surviving. But what ever.

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NinjaPoodle wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:55 am

Smucky wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 11:33 pm I remember circa 2006 debating in some thread on rage3d about the future of self driving cars. I argued that it would never happen. There are simply too many scenarios where a driver would have to make the choice of driving into oncoming traffic, or running over a pedestrian, or driving down a ravine. You know, say if a log fell off of a truck or a giant rock lands in the middle of the road,etc. Now a person can freely make a choice and more than likely won't have to worry about getting sued. But throw a machine into the works, and now there is company liability. A company certainly wouldn't be able to survive the onslaught of litigation. Plus our government would step in with regulations. But that was before I knew our government doesn't make regulations, companies pay the government to make regulations to create vendor lock-in, etc.

Not sure how tesla is surviving. But what ever.

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Imagine when an autonomous cab decides to take a route through a bad neighborhood and it stops because of some unforeseen event, then you are stuck in the ghetto with all your bags and belongings.

With a human driver you can just tell the driver to drive the fuck out of there.