Does Any One Actually Want a Self Driving Car?

[MAG WEB DESIGNS]

Does Any One Actually Want a Self Driving Car? Every one I talk to thinks an autonomous car is a bad idea. I personally like driving so I wouldn't want one either.

Wouldn't it be really easy to manipulate these things? UHF or ULF signal on the radio to trigger debug mode and such?

Id much rather have one of these that I can fly around in .

http://jman5.com/carter-copter/carter-copter-aircraft.htm

 

[The_Sharingan]

A lazy ass like myself would love to have it.
Who's buying? I'll get you a case of beer

 

[rickydzine]

I know how to crash into a wall and die with no added help, so I'm quite fine, thank you.

 

[Degen]

Yes can finally have some unquinshed desires done.

 

[IMKage]

In future it might be dope, if it can ensure no accidents and proper following rules so I don't get fined. As per now it's just a concept which is developing. If a self driving car can be as good as an avg. driver then HELL YEAH!!! I'd love to have it drive for me while I take nap in the back seat. But as per now I don't think the future is too far.. I just wanna see how much can we advance in technology in next 100 years, we already came a massive way in the past 100 years.

 

[what_hat?]

I do! I can't wait to push a button and let the car do all the work

 

[Stem]

Yeah, if you ever drove for 10 hours between 2 cities then you'd love to have a self driving car

 

[Vodaa Citaa]

Of course I’d want a self driving Tesla. If it’s by Elon musky boy then it’s good for me.

 

[JamaicanMoose]

Absolutely. Power naps during my commute would greatly enhance my overall well-being

 

[mickyfu]

Do they drive better than my girlfriend?

 

[Ecodor]

HELL NO!

 

[MAG WEB DESIGNS]

Why you guys not want a personal gyrocopter? I will go out on a limb here and say "Elon Musk is the antichrist and the death of personal air transportation". You can quote me.

 

[royserpa]

Yeah, if you ever drove for 10 hours between 2 cities then you'd love to have a self driving car

I love driving long distances. Guess, its personal preference.

But ill be waiting when the first hacking attack on these self driving cars happen

 

[Mr.PB]

I like driving but on the highway it can get really boring... Also when I'm drunk I'd love to have a car that can drive me home. Can't wait to get a self driving car!

 

[hazzi]

nah there is no fun in that.

 

[Dantello]

Hell yes i would want to drive a self driving car. Driving is in fact hella boring, would rather like to actually enjoy myself while getting to my destination.

 

[MAG WEB DESIGNS]

Tesla "over the air" updates and slows down the model 3.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/2/17413732/tesla-over-the-air-software-updates-brakes

When Consumer Reports recently found that the braking distance on the Tesla Model 3 was worse than that of a Ford F-150, CEO Elon Musk took the criticism and found a solution. Days later, Tesla shipped an over-the-air update that, according to CR’s testing, improved the braking distance by 19 feet. It’s a wild idea: your car automatically downloads some code, and it’s instantly safer. It also wasn’t possible even a few years ago, and some have held it up as an ideal example of how futuristic technologies can make our lives better. Analysts said it was “unheard of.” Jake Fisher, CR’s director of auto testing (and the person who originally flagged the issue), said he’d “never seen a car that could improve its track performance with an over-the-air update.”

Others, like Navigant Research’s Sam Abuelsamid, looked at the recent Model 3 braking distance issue as a sign of a larger problem with Tesla’s quality control. He wrote this week that the fact there was that much room for improvement on the braking capabilities of the car shows there’s something “fundamentally broken in what they were doing” with the Model 3. Shouldn’t Tesla, which by now has made and sold over 300,000 cars around the globe, have caught this problem before CR did?

We don’t yet know why the Model 3’s braking was underperforming, and we may never know. That matters less than what the update actually signaled.

Take this one, posited just a few weeks ago Tesla’s own official forums: ”Did Tesla just slow down our cars?”

In the thread, owners point to how a recent update (specifically 2018.18.3, released in the middle of May) lines up with what could be the possibility that their Model 3s don’t quite accelerate with as much kick as they did before.

“It seems in the latest update that my Model 3 is much slower off the line,” the original poster writes. “It doesn’t throw you into the seat like it used to!”

Good luck with "OTA" updates that can brick your car. I'm gonna stick with my mid 90's BMW 5 series

 

[RobertTheShark]

At some point it will be the state of the art for the mainstream.

But no, I honestly don't want it. I don't need all of these "smart" technology in my car. I want to have full controll over everything, make decisions by myself.

 

[RiTu]

Some time ago I had a talk with my friend about car seats and safety when driving, somehow we mentioned Britax frontier booster and that's where he got really agitated, opened https://www.bestcarseathub.com and showed me an article about it, since that time I have thought about it and would like to know if it's really so good or not?

 

[Dillon]

Of course who wouldn't love to take a long nap while technology has your life in it's hands.

You can also stick your feet out the window like that one guy, might scare a few people but definitely worth the amusement!

Question I have is, if you are getting pulled over in a self driving vehicle and you're sleeping and don't wake up is the car gonna magically pull over itself? Or am I gonna wake up to my car getting spike stripes deployed on it or pit maneuvered and wind up dead. Who knows..