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on Friday October 21 2016, @01:48AM
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The AP via U.S. News & World Report reported last month that California's Department of Motor Vehicles has proposed regulations that would allow fully autonomous cars, without a human driver, steering wheel or control pedals. On Wednesday the state's government held a workshop to hear public comment on the proposal. In January, Google had stated that it would not offer such cars in California if the state required a human driver to be present. According to KCRA-TV,
DMV hopes to have a finalized draft of regulations in the coming months. There will then be a 45-day public comment period before the draft is approved.
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(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday October 21 2016, @02:01AM
If I'm going to cut somebody off for fucking with me on the road, or just being on the road, I need to see some rage on their end!!!! This is totally going to take the fun out of driving. Fuckers! :)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday October 21 2016, @02:35AM
Meh. Power is addictive. It's like being that big Black guy or Latino in a school full of White kids -- every day is a new handful of won fights, new sneakers, and purses of lunch monies.
Automatically driven cars should stand out, though, and look as retarded as possible so that it's obvious there's no human at the wheel -- which is why they should look like this [wikimedia.org] or this. [smartusa.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @03:01AM
We can call them Ethanol Fueled No More vehicles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @02:53AM
You can have your fun in other ways -- just inch over next to one of these and watch it move away...you can probably inch it right off the road. Plenty of rage from the passenger in the auto-driven car!
(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday October 21 2016, @03:02AM
Cool!
Actually, I have a five second rule. A person who is acting inappropriately, after I deal with the situation working to make sure everybody survives, I give them five seconds of my ire. Then, I let it go. Or try to. I must admit, I've been working this approach for many years and the most I could give initially was .25 seconds on tranquility. Now, I'm just old and can't hear them yelling at me anyway :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @04:05AM
In the 1980s I met a young engineer from Detroit who must have been ahead of his time, fearless, ...or just plain crazy? He tried this inching-over routine on a semi! He told me the story and later showed me his older Citation, sure enough it had deep circular scratches in the passenger door from the lug nuts on the truck wheel. He wore them like a badge of honor, left them in, didn't have the door repaired.
Wonder where he is now? Back then he was one of the anointed ones, in a special rotation trainee program and headed for the executive suites.
(Score: 1) by Type44Q on Friday October 21 2016, @02:19PM
Huh? This is great; we can run them off the road with a clear conscience. :)