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The U.S. House on Wednesday unanimously approved a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls by putting federal regulators in the driver's seat and barring states from blocking autonomous vehicles.
The House measure, the first significant federal legislation aimed at speeding self-driving cars to market, would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards in the first year. The cap would rise over three years to 100,000 vehicles annually.
How will the young impress each other with their mad driving skillz now?
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U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday September 08 2017, @01:12AM (8 children)
... when there are no more suicide bombers.
Instead we will have guided land missiles without any drivers.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday September 08 2017, @02:24AM (3 children)
Yup. With anything similar to our current utterly unreliable computing tech, self driving cars in an invitation to a mass murder of thousands level event. Imagine thousands of cars suddenly accelerating to max and then swerving into the opposing lane to perfectly hit another car doing the same thing in the other direction for maximum damage. Imagine cars pouring into schools and mowing down kiddies, driving right through the doors and down the halls. You won't have to imagine it long, it will be on the evening news.
There won't be enough money in the FED to pay out the damages after the lawsuits end.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday September 08 2017, @04:00AM (2 children)
Oh, come on you can do better than that. The first hack induced head on crash corks the entire highway and the death toll is limited right there.
You need to worry about bomb laden cars sent on delivery missions.
Even if you make it so the cars can not travel without a human on board, (which seems unlikely) attackers can spike someone's drink, pour them into a car loaded with explosive and send it where they can do the most damage.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday September 08 2017, @05:19AM (1 child)
Nah, imagine it. A thousand cars in the northbound lane and a thousand in the southbound lane all go to max speed with a mile gap between the groups. They line up in a perfect spacing. Then at the optimal moment all two thousand jump into their opposite and create the mother of all pileups in the median.
Or a thousand cars jump to a hundred miles per hour and refuse all commands from the mothership. Attacker calls Google and says "send X Bitcoins or we crash them. Tick tock, those batteries won't go that fast for long and we will crash them before that. We picked vehicles with lots of kids and other photogenic passengers."
And even without a bomb you can do some major damage with enough cars crashing one after the other into something. And they want to put autodrive in big rigs. Fuel tankers anyone? Hazardous cargo? Madness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 08 2017, @07:43AM
One fuel tanker and one of those semi-secret transports of fuel rods to and from a nuclear re-processing facility in a head-on crash.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 08 2017, @03:20AM (2 children)
How long before you can send your self driving car home, empty, because you can't find a parking spot - then recall it when you're ready?
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday September 08 2017, @04:04AM (1 child)
Or send it to clog any random street, regardless of how far away it its.
Chances are before that happens you won't own the car but simply use it, and dismiss it.
Want to go home, summon the rental again, have it show up with the seats full of feces.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 08 2017, @10:51AM
Yep, just like Uber/Taxis today, just displacing the drivers with robots.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday September 08 2017, @07:25AM
Also, this will give a completely new means of abductions. Hack the car the victim is is, make it lock the doors and deliver you right at the spot.
For murder, the same works, except that the spot is over the next cliff, or against the next tree.
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