Highway merging rant
I guess I’ll never stop being amazed how most people merge onto highways from on-ramps. It practically never fails – here I am almost exclusively in the right hand lane, where I’m legally supposed to...
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shakyjay wrote:Pretty much the same, yes. And always will be.
As I listen to some of the talk on this subject it is very similar to what occurred when we went from horse and buggy to automobile.
New things, especially computer things, are expected to be perfect. Never mind that the current system of manual human driving puts you at the mercy of drivers who are drunk, stoned, in a heated argument with their spouses, driving without a license, talking on the phone ( I see it every day), texting, playing with the radio, eating, and drivers who are too scared to accelerate on an on ramp. Yeah, why on earth would we want to give that up?
Seems to me if computers are capable of running Wall street, building cars, solving crimes, flying airplanes and almost too many other thing to list, they ought to be able to drive a car. Just not today, and not perfectly. Of couse there will be a few problems, but jees, compared to what we have now, could it be worse? I doubt it.
