I Hate Google's Self Driving Cars

[aqme28]

I would LOVE to watch the self-driving Indy 500.

That aside, his argument is pure speculation. He's afraid of something that might happen in 30 years[1], but probably won't.

[1]I figure even if self-driving cars were released tomorrow, it would still take decades to become popular enough for such a mandate.

[racerrick]

You're probably right.

But I still hate them!

[ZeroGravitas]

Anyone else find it weird that we've not got self-driving trains yet? I mean, they're on rails, that seems to radically reduce the problem space. Yet we're starting with cars? Not even buses that take the same route every day?

I'll note that I do hear about robot driven trains in Japan, but usually as "what are those crazy Japanese up to" type stories, rather than "Why don't we have this obvious tech".

[normalocity]

The Seattle (or Portland? can't remember which) airport has a self-driving train that shuttles people between terminals. Of course, there's no competing "traffic" to deal with in those cases, just a handful of trains all heading around a closed loop in the same direction, moving people from place to place.

[ig1]

London's had driverless train since the 1980s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway

[normalocity]

I think this is a lame minority view. I don't know anyone who actually loves driving in traffic, for example, even if it is to take their kids to school or to go to the gas station. WTF?

[racerrick]

Yeah, traffic sucks. But there's no traffic where I live.

[sauravc]

Some people LOVE riding horses, but you don't see them riding horses to the movies do you?

[racerrick]

I hate horses! I don't ride them.