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Well, that was fun while it lasted. Today my "new" RV was totaled in a head-on collision with a woman who had lost control of her car and spun into my lane. She had been forced out of her lane by a ...
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drsteve wrote:
The National Driver's Association, from what I can tell, is a for-profit lobbying group that was originally founded to oppose the 55 mph speed limit. Now, they spend their time cataloging speed traps, opposing red light cameras, and complaining that DUI laws need to be relaxed.
Good grief!!!
Unless I'm reading it wrong ... the N.D.A. is AGAINST everything I'm FOR.
Of course with us all in self-driving vehicles someday - animals, pedestrians, and passengers can finally have any attitudes and habits they want and still arrive safely ... IF:
1. Electronic chips don't fail.
2. Electronic solder joints don't go cold.
3. Wiring insulation doesn't develop a wear-through spot.
4. Optical camera lens don't get dirty.
5. Infra-red camera detectors don't become weak on either transmission or reception.
6. Pattern recognition software is, and remains, perfect.
7. Satellite links remain unbothered by bad weather.
8. Satellites remain up there.
9. Cell tower access is 100% everywhere and all the time.
10. The non-military GPS system becomes accurate to within at least 4-6 inches everywhere passengers want to go.
11. The vehicle's sensors, mechanicals, hydraulic systems, and linear/rotational electrical actuator systems remain on the job and accurate everytime passengers want to go somewhere.
12. The vehicle's batteries are always charged enough and electro-chemically reliable enough to never ever fail when needed.
13. Just in case, everything in the vehicle concerned with it self-driving safely has double or, preferrably, triple backup.
:h and :S and :R and :E
