I had to do a similar maneuver when I drove commuter buses during a BART strike. My westbound I-80 onramp was right at the Bay Bridge toll plaza and I had to cross 3 or 4 lanes into the carpool lane immediately. I don't miss those days.
Just as people keep redefining "intelligence" upward to exclude things machines can already do, so they keep raising the bar higher on why SUV replacement is impossible. You think people get mad if you hint at taking their gunz away….
"You'll never see a time when there's a computer on every desk." Thus spake my boss at a 16,000-person engineering firm in 1988, who wanted our 12-person office to be happy with one corporate-issue PC-XT and a pinhead printer. It took me until 1993 or so, but eventually we had a UNIX network, Intergraph mapping software, a 42" inkjet plotter, and the last I'm-too-creative-to-use-a-computer dead-ender transferred to Dubai, where Bangladeshi indentured servants served tea and did the "drafting."
They're usually hit from behind in slow-speed crashes by inattentive or aggressive humans unaccustomed to machine motorists that always follow the rules and proceed with caution…
California is urging caution in the deployment of driverless cars.
Considering how often I am tailgated when I am simply going with the speed of traffic and trying not to be a tailgater myself, I'd sadly have to agree that these cars may not be such a good choice…
I'm not sure that I could get across three lanes of traffic in 150 yards.
I had to do a similar maneuver when I drove commuter buses during a BART strike. My westbound I-80 onramp was right at the Bay Bridge toll plaza and I had to cross 3 or 4 lanes into the carpool lane immediately. I don't miss those days.
Just as people keep redefining "intelligence" upward to exclude things machines can already do, so they keep raising the bar higher on why SUV replacement is impossible. You think people get mad if you hint at taking their gunz away….
"You'll never see a time when there's a computer on every desk." Thus spake my boss at a 16,000-person engineering firm in 1988, who wanted our 12-person office to be happy with one corporate-issue PC-XT and a pinhead printer. It took me until 1993 or so, but eventually we had a UNIX network, Intergraph mapping software, a 42" inkjet plotter, and the last I'm-too-creative-to-use-a-computer dead-ender transferred to Dubai, where Bangladeshi indentured servants served tea and did the "drafting."
Considering how often I am tailgated when I am simply going with the speed of traffic and trying not to be a tailgater myself, I'd sadly have to agree that these cars may not be such a good choice…
/FFS