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This is the Journal of Don't Gosho me if you don't know me << Harrumph Where's my Goo? >> WARNING! May contain nuts Subject: It couldn't be any worse than most drivers Posted May 8, 2012 by Who are you and what have you done with Gosho?   Posting 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17989553 In fact it'd be a distinct improvement on most of the ones around here. I think it should be compulsory. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: It couldn't be any worse than most drivers Posted May 8, 2012 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 I'm currently reading this article at home from January's issue of Wired (I've got a backlog of reading IRL). http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/all/1 I'm all for autonomous vehicles. Between reckless drunks, reckless teens, reckless OAPs, and reckless eedjits of all ages texting and phoning while driving, self driving vehicles is a huge improvement. A few weeks ago, Google tested one of their vehicles by putting a blind man behind the wheel (with a police officer in the passenger seat and a cruiser escorting it for legal liability reasons) and had the car take him to the dry cleaners and picked up a bit to eat at a drive-thru restaurant then back home again. As a motorcyclist I fully approve. Of course, the biggest hurdles to this advancing will likely be legal liability issues. What if an autonomous vehicle gets in a wreck? Who's responsible? The driver? The other driver? The car company? The software designer? (Of course with a good "No Fault" insurance law, this wouldn't matter.) Anyways, I welcome our new robot overlords! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: It couldn't be any worse than most drivers Posted May 8, 2012 by (Mahatma) 2legs - Resident loon and Cloud Cuckoolander -- Bliss is folding towels. This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 I could get a car to drive me to the pub and back! Mind... would be even better if it were a driverless motorbike... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: It couldn't be any worse than most drivers Posted May 8, 2012 by Who are you and what have you done with Gosho? This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 You used to hear stories of old blokes who'd take their horse and cart to the pub, get rat-arsed, then fall asleep on the cart while the horse took them back home. Sounds like the same kind of thing Conversation list Conversation list

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