Got a car job as far from Pro-Touring as you can get
 

After being a tech for Lexus for way too long, recently got a new job working for GM and a small company they just bought developing self driving cars. Wondering what this community has to say about it. This video is from one of our cars navigating it's way around downtown San Francisco. This entire drive is fully autonomous, no input from a human driver.

I really hate everything about it and I wish someone had the power to kill the entire concept, along with A.I. and advanced robotics as well. I wish both would go the way of the VHS tape, but it sure seems like that's not going to happen.

Computers always pay attention
 

Self driving cars have to be better than the idiots that pay no attention to driving at all. Let the car drive, so they can talk on their phones, put on their makeup, watch movies, swat at kids, and not be bothered by all this driving nonsense. I'll bet an electrical sensor or software malfunction, is less frequent than distracted driver.....

They way I see it is, it's a job. It'll pay the bills. There are millions of people who may not necessarily love there job, but they might not hate it either. A job is essential to life and is a must have. Besides, I think it'll be cool to be part of the future, because the future is coming. No if's, and's, but's or maybe's to it...it's coming. Whether we like it or not. LOL!!

Too many variables. There is no computer, nor will there ever be a computer, that can function as fast as the human brain. I don't like the idea one bit.
And what about an accident? Let's say that two "computer driven cars" get in an accident? How do you determine who is at fault, for insurance reasons?

There are variables that it can't anticipate. For instance, you come up on a green light and look to the left and see someone that will clearly run the red light. As the real driver, you have the awareness to slam on the brakes vs. the alternative.

Scott, you are right...there are too many variables. But, there still coming. LOL!! The car companies aren't putting all this money into R&D for nothing.

Driving around city hall and Van Ness....piece of cake! Try going down Grant Street in Chinatown or better yet cross the Bay Bridge during commute hours. They just announced they are eliminating the "Bots Dots" on our freeways....what they didn't tell everyone is AI driven cars have great difficulty dealing with them so they are going away....I predict more vehicle crashes as a result of losing those fantastic driver feedback dots. Didn't see many Psycho Cyclists either.....run that "beta test" on a Friday evening when all the IDIOTS do their "Critical Mass" ride and get back to me on how well things are progressing....if you take a few cyclists out....the world will be a much better place. Glad I no longer have to suffer working in that screwed up city!

I agree. 100%.

Computers can perform billions of operations in a second. The fastest computer is now performing tasks 4 times faster and stores 10 times more information than he human brain. As soon as quantum computing or "light" computing game over.