Ford Backup Assist

holstein13 wrote:
You can't stop progress. In my opinion, drivers are already distracted. There's no denying it. I see a large percentage of the population texting, using Facebook, snapchat, Pinterest or some GPS program almost constantly while on the highways.

The problem is that driving is just boring enough that we end up with lots of unused brain capacity and we THINK we can do all these other things while out on the road and, frankly, 99.99% of the time, we can do those things and absolutely nothing bad will happen.

The problem comes when something unexpected occurs and we are distracted by our gadgets. In my opinion, the driverless car is the solution to this problem. People just don't care to pay attention to driving anymore and I'd rather see an alert technology directing these cars than a careless human driver.

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

I just do not think the technology is there........ I do not know what bookface & smart phones are but auto makers can't make cars that have air bags that don't mame, key switches that cut off at 60 mph, engines that fail at bad times, gas pedals that stick or other serious issues & we can expect that they can build in mass production driverless cars ???????? Really ..... Give me my manual transmission & a car I can drive ............ I drive over 50,000 miles a year I would have a hard time trusting an automaker to get anything right......... quality is still terrible. Then there is the issue the auto mechanics around here can't even work on a modern car without screwing it up......

My solution would be a system that disables all electronic gadgets when you turn on the ignition.......:)