Looks complicated to me:
Dial it in. These changes are a good reason to use the parking brake.
Thatās a better picture than I had. Looks like a park button at least. If theyād put it on the dash, itād be like the 60ās Chryslers. All things old are new again.
At this point I think driverless cars are inevitable. And while I think itāll be another decade before theyāre commonplace, theyāre probably going to become commonplace a lot faster than I think.
Theyāll have a valuable place in the overall mix. It may be sooner than I hope that I become unable to drive myself beyond the corner store. Iām already to the point where I become anxious about long drives, especially at night or in bad weather, and Iāve always loved to take long drives. A self-driving car would be a Godsend to me.
Other applications would be as cabs. Assuming driverless cars are proven safe and reliable, Iād rather that than a cabbie who takes the long (expensive) way to get me there. A Johnny cab would be an asset there too.
The downside of Johnny cabs? Drunks. While Johnny cabs might make a drunk more comfortable taking a cab home, drunks can leave unsavory things in cabs that need to be cleaned out after. Johnny cabs would probably need olfactory detectors to take them out of service pending cleaning when necessary.
Itāll be interesting to watch how this new technology rolls out. Who was it that said āthere are things we know we know, things we know we donāt know, and things we donāt know we donāt know.ā Itās the third category thatāll be fun to watch.
I could imagine that our fleet might eventually be interested in acquiring some driverless cars
Presumably for the big brass . . . then you donāt need an employee to drive these guys around
THIS right here is why personal ownership of cars will continue irrespective of the driver-less cars thing. I am sure we all know folks whose cars resemble a garbage can. Bio-hazards all the way! NO one wants to ride in that!
Even people who foul their own cars donāt want to sit in other peopleās mess. That is a key reason many donāt want to take mass transportation as it exists today. If that can be solved - i.e. a āflushableā Johnny Cab - it would really help acceptance. People still like their stuff, however, and I think private car ownership will continue.
Reallyā¦tell that to my nephew who was hit by a drunk driver 20 years ago and is still a paraplegic. When is the self healing going to begin?