About once a week the local newspaper reports someone in their 70's or 80's who caused a fatal crash because they "didn't see" the other vehicle; we may be in FL, but most of the retirees who move to the state are a little further south, so I would hate to see what the accident stats are elsewhere.
Yeah. Would love to see a requirement that, over a certain age/after failing a vision/driving/whatever test, people have to let a better driver take over, even if it's an AI.
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Do you remember that for a while we thought it wasn't safe for me to drive, either? For a year and a half I was pretty much trapped at home unless someone else could give me a ride. There's no public transit out here. Do you know how that feels? How isolating and diminishing, not to be able to get into my own car and go somewhere even when I need to go?
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And then there's just the fact that it'd be nice to get into a car after a workday, tell it "I want to be at [some address 12 hours away]," and go to sleep. If you've got a good enough self-driving car and a good enough bed, road trips could be nothing. You just wake up at your destination in the morning and get on with life.
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Date: 2012-08-06 04:06 pm (UTC)Oh, me. Absolutely.
About once a week the local newspaper reports someone in their 70's or 80's who caused a fatal crash because they "didn't see" the other vehicle; we may be in FL, but most of the retirees who move to the state are a little further south, so I would hate to see what the accident stats are elsewhere.
Yeah. Would love to see a requirement that, over a certain age/after failing a vision/driving/whatever test, people have to let a better driver take over, even if it's an AI.
~ ~ ~
Do you remember that for a while we thought it wasn't safe for me to drive, either? For a year and a half I was pretty much trapped at home unless someone else could give me a ride. There's no public transit out here. Do you know how that feels? How isolating and diminishing, not to be able to get into my own car and go somewhere even when I need to go?
~ ~ ~
And then there's just the fact that it'd be nice to get into a car after a workday, tell it "I want to be at [some address 12 hours away]," and go to sleep. If you've got a good enough self-driving car and a good enough bed, road trips could be nothing. You just wake up at your destination in the morning and get on with life.