I'm a programmer and I spend most days fixing bugs.

as controlled assistive tech on a highway... maybe? on streets? hell naw.

:icon18: reality sets in.

until hvac can sense human comfort and automatically change climate inside the cabin, or a nav telepathically detect where you want to go, i dont trust computers that much.

i suppose with night vision and the car making recommendations, that would be okay. but then it would sound like advertisement.

"kenchan you are hungry, make a stop at the next charburger joint on your right 200yards."

But thats the problem exactly. it senses the child already in your path and reacts. where as i can see a child running across his yard and slow down before he gets to the street and i need to panic brake

they should be used as an aid, not a replacement

i will again say, computers can only react. not be instictive. not in our lifetime probably

remember, programs and software are only as perfect as the human creating the source code.

and most often than not, nerds are programming who dont know how to drive in the first place... lol ;)

So turn the sensors outward so it sees them before they cross in front of you...

would suck to drive on rural roads with tall grass blowing in the wind towards the road. will be like watching a novice MT driver practicing how to work the clutch...

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good point.

So then they pick up every person at a sidewalk, or crossing a street, or at a bus stop...

the computer doesnt know which people are likely to dart in front of a car. a kid with a pall or a dog in a yard YOU can distinguish, but not a comp

^^ +1

and stupid-arse pranksters will line up next to high ways doing the high kick making the car go nuts trying to decide if he's going to cross the road or just goofing around.

As stated, there are far too many variables in everyday driving for the entire process to be automated. Trading bad drivers for malfunctioning computers isn't the answer.

At least you can do something about a bad driver.

yah, and imagine the lawsuits car makers and software/hardware makers will face.

the biggest idiots will become rich for.. just being idiots.

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