Would you ride in a driverless Uber?

[Mike SC Hunter]

There's no guarantee that a typical Uber driver is any safer, but I'll wait until the technology matures a little more. However, computers don't have mouths to feed or student loan payments, so no tip required.

Say the gov. labels you as a trouble maker.....You get in a computer Uber......An agent takes control..............BAM.......Head on with a semi truck.

 

[Onomea]

And the driver of the semi truck is Putin's SIL's hairdresser's lover who in reality is working as a paid assassin for Idi Amin!

 

[DWalt]

I believe it is inevitable, just a matter of how long it will take to become universal. Autonomous vehicles won't be going away. But it does pose some thorny legal liability questions when passengers get injured or killed.

I have never been an Uber or Lyft passenger, probably never will be one. I do notice that I very seldom see any real taxicabs around town.

 

[dockmurgw]

I'll only ride in a Johny Cab

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[ameridaddy]

No, no way. A late colleague, an alumnus of the Apollo program, inventor of the video poker machine, a brilliant man, once told me, paraphrasing, "Don't ever forget all software programs will have three more bugs for all eternity, no matter how often they are debugged, and you won't like it when the right combination of inputs reveals one of them. Never risk your life on a machine run by software."

 

[Rustyt1953]

Uber and Lyft are taxis sans yeller paint and checkerboard racing stripes.


I risk my life daily with the software driven machine in my chest.

 

[steelslaver]

Ya, I have done worse. Yes, your putting faith in software. Software inspects lots of car and airplane parts. More than half the functions in a modern airliner are controlled by software. The pilot is basically just an override system. If fact they say a human could not fly a stealth fighter without the software. You maybe pressing on a throttle pedal in your car, but depending on its age the actual throttle control is via soft ware, your ABS brakes same story. That stop light. is run by a microprocessor. Trains same story. That medical procedure on your heart, eyes, back, liver etc? Better hope some software doesn't blow out while the doc is cauterizing a blood vessel with a laser or other do dad. Pace maker anyone?

Software or hardware, it all fails from time to time. Ever ride in a helicopter. A pile of critical parts better all keep working or you strapped in a rock.

If the invisible and all powerful THEY want you dead they certainly wouldn't need to go to the trouble of a driverless Uber. They very thought is laughable. Getting rid of people has never been hard. Plus, even if your behind the wheel, if a semi with a health bumper suddenly crosses into your lane at the last second, blat, your mush

 

[riverrat38]

Uber and Lyft are taxis sans yeller paint and checkerboard racing stripes.


I risk my life daily with the software driven machine in my chest.

I will bet that the machine that resides in your chest cost a lot more than the one in an Uber cycle!

73,
Rick

 

[brucev]

I'm fine with it. Usually use a Uber in Boston, NYC, etc. Know the places well enough to use a rental, but downtown parking is always lots of fun. Uber gets me where I need to go, usually for no more that it would have cost me to pay for parking, not to speak of the cost of the rental. Truth is, in Wilmington, a Uber to and then from the beach was far cheaper than paying parking in one of the available lots. Sincerely. bruce.

 

[Golddollar]

An airliner had taken off and reached cruising altitude. Then over the P. A. system came the message "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This flight is under the control of our new operating system that has done away with the need for pilots. By doing this, we have eliminated the possibility of any problems caused by pilot error. So sit back and enjoy your flight, and remember that nothing can go wrong . . . go wrong . . . go wrong . . ."

 

[ladder13]

Only in a Uber hearse.

 

[S42N8]

And the driver of the semi truck is Putin's SIL's hairdresser's lover who in reality is working as a paid assassin for Idi Amin!

That phone call you're getting without Caller ID is the CIA wanting to talk sources and methods.

Or the SVR…pretty much the same call, really.

Or our not-so-benevolent AI overlords… they already know the sources and methods, but want to let you know when the Uber is arriving. Pay no mind when the hearse pulls up; merely a pickup for the drop off.

 

[S42N8]

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Moral of the story: Be kind. Teach your children well. Tip the robot sushi chefs.

 

[soFlaNative]

Only if locked in the trunk.

 

[S42N8]

I guess you could shoot it if it ran amok, but that would risk starting a thread about "the best caliber for a Uber", and we really don't want to go there, do we?

Why yes, yes we do! . (Pro forma, really)

Anything that ends in Rigby. Or go old skewl with a Remington Model 8 in .35 Remington-Frank Hamer would approve. Or there's the phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

 

[steelslaver]

50 cents says that if you get in a drivelers Uber after it takes off if you say stop here it stops.

Like I said the days when the controls on an airliner were actually worked by the pilot are GONE. The flight control systems in modern commercial aircraft are primarily controlled by a computer known as the Flight Control Unit (FCU) which receives input from the pilots and then uses that input to control the aircraft's systems such as the flight control surfaces, engines, and even the autopilot system. The pilot is basically telling the aircraft computer what to do. Think the of the ECM in your car. Ya, the jet engines have them too as does the flight controls

It always amazes me people worry about this when brain dead human drivers are killing thousand every year. AI has a long way to go before it can hope to catch up to human stupidity as a cause of death

 

[glenwolde]

Yeah sure, what the heck. Especially if it's a relatively short urban trip. I'd be a little leary of freeways maybe. But if you crash, you cash.

 

[rwsmith]

I'm sorry....

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

"I'm sorry, rider. I'm afraid I can't do that."

 

[sigp220.45]

Yep, no problem.

I will also use an elevator without an elevator operator.

 

[Rustyt1953]