Comments on: 11/28/2012 – System Error

By: malenki

malenki — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:36:28 +0000

There are hordes of programmers and testers and millions of users – and still there is no Operating System which is secure.
I guess there will be as much success in creating a secure self driving car as in creating a secure OS.

By: Lucas Jerzy Portela

Lucas Jerzy Portela — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:35:06 +0000

Taxis are very conveniente if you 1) call them and book them 2) to eventual bail-out in awckwards situations. They are made for it.

By: bubby87

bubby87 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:15:13 +0000

right now drivers can adjust to cyclists, i believe if they had to set up an infrastructure to aid these computer driven cars cyclists would have to be banned from the roads in order for the roads to operate, in a perfect world something like this would be accompanied by a bicycle infrastructure that complements the new completely overhauled car infrastructure, something tells me cyclists would be forgotten in this situation

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:30:18 +0000

I think you’re confusing religion and the end of Peter Pan.

By: Syke

Syke — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:26:56 +0000

Bring on your wonderful system of self-driving cars. All it’ll take to turn the setup into utter chaos is one kamikaze-nut on a 600cc sportbike. And you haven’t even begun to figure in the clowns that’ll have to ‘play’ with the system (for whatever reason they dream up). If you haven’t previously read it, a strongly recommend Harlan Ellison’s “Repent Harlequin, Said the Ticktock Man”. What a wonderful example of playing with an orderly world.

By: JaFO

JaFO — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:29:14 +0000

No, the safest car would be the one that’s about to be crushed and used for scrap metal …

By: JaFO

JaFO — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:27:27 +0000

oh no you didn’t … lol

By: xpistofep

xpistofep — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:37:27 +0000

There’s a Japanese anime from 10 years back or so that was based completely on the idea that all cars had become driverless and that therefore there was a police force specifically setup up to rescue riders/pedestrians from cars that went out of control. Don’t remember any hacking episodes, but as I think about it, the implication would have had to been that the AI got confused, ie bugs.

By: bjjoondo

bjjoondo — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:13:09 +0000

You are all much braver than I, I’d, “NEVER” trust a computer enough to let it drive me!! My wife works for a car dealership, (no we don’t own one!), service dept. and she tells me all the time of the “computer burps”, problems with our current cars. I wouldn’t let it control my bicycle or any car that I was in, period!

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:06:23 +0000

And exactly how are they going to control all these vehicles? All I’m going to say is that something like this would require a *MASSIVE* amount of infrastructure such as GPS systems, and an equally impressive complex of sophisticated, high-powered/high-speed computers to track all these vehicles in relation to one another in real-time.

Now I’m going to ask you to think back about a month ago and consider the condition of the infrastructure in New York and New Jersey. The power grid was down; communications were disrupted; and even basic hardware such as rails, roads, bridges, and tunnels were totally unusable.

Something like ‘robo-cars’ could maybe work in a limited application such as getting around a large complex, but I cannot ever imagine the American public willingly getting out of their U-drive-em motorized metal cocoons. Trust me, we could burn up every drop of gasoline on the planet; people would demand that the government powers-that-be immediately find some way of turning something else into petroleum. Either that or we would see a rush to build nuclear power plants in order to produce electricity for electric cars like you would not believe, regardless of whether or not we had found a way to safely handle the nuke wastes.