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Trump has privately voiced skepticism about driverless cars: report

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Trump has privately voiced skepticism about driverless cars: report | TheHill

Trump has privately voiced skepticism about driverless cars: report

President Trump has reportedly expressed skepticism on more than one occasion about the move toward self-driving cars.

Axios, citing four sources who've heard him discuss the subject, reported on Sunday that Trump doesn't see the usefulness of autonomous vehicles. He has also reportedly said that he would never let a computer-operated car drive him.
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Skeptical or not, driverless vehicles are coming soon - first in areas such as long-haul trucking, later in big city taxi & ride sharing applications. Trump apparently doesn't listen to science advisers & futurists. How can you run a country when you have no vision?
 

Trump has the same “vision” as an endoscope..
 

LOL!!

Surely Axios can come up with a more earth-shattering topic to spread rumor about.
 

So you completey trust getting in a driverless car on the freeway?
 

Funny coming from someone that has others driving him everywhere.
 
Bucky said:
So you completey trust getting in a driverless car on the freeway?
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I barely trust humans driving cars on the freeway. Automated cars don't need to be perfect, they just need to commit fewer errors than human driven cars.
 
Bucky said:
So you completey trust getting in a driverless car on the freeway?
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No, but then again I don't completely trust cars with human drivers in them either. I take it you want the horse and buggy to make a comeback .:lamo
 
He and pretty much every person I've ever talked to about the subject, lol.
 
Casper said:
Funny coming from someone that has others driving him everywhere.
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I doubt he even has a current driver's license.
 

Dude's 72, FFS! He's past getting excited about new ideas. He was never really much of an idea guy in his professional life, either.

Sure, he's a lifelong ****heel, but this is just the generation gap in effect.

Probably isn't really up on streaming media or fidget spinners, either.
 

I'm skeptical of driverless vehicles at this point as well. I do think that we'll get there eventually, that we should certainly be looking at the tech. But I don't think it's right around the corner either.
 
JacksinPA said:
I doubt he even has a current driver's license.
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He is a rich New Yorker so it is highly likely he has no license or even knows how to drive outside a golfcourse.
 
It is okay to be skeptical of driverless / autonomous vehicles for now because the technology is still in development, it is not okay to write off the entire idea because technology so far is telling us we will eventually have them.
 
Ikari said:
I'm skeptical of driverless vehicles at this point as well. I do think that we'll get there eventually, that we should certainly be looking at the tech. But I don't think it's right around the corner either.
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I would argue it is right around the corner, there are production cars capable of driving themselves, Teslas.
 

Well, sure, I might not see the point either if I had always had chauffeurs. But if Trump said that then I don't really have an issue with it. I do believe that future generations, perhaps including the current generation who is still several years away from driving, will have no problems feeling comfortable being driven around by a computer because it will be normal for them. Those of us who grew up in a world where people did all the driving are going to have a lot of problems getting over the trust issue, even if it turns out that the computer drive cars are much safer, statistically speaking. Most people don't apportion their comfort or fear out based on data.

So self driving cars will become the norm, but I think it will take some decades before it becomes the NORM. Probably around the time we are all dead or too old to be calling the shots. Between now and then I think its use will increase very gradually. Probably more gradually than the use of electric cars.
 
OrphanSlug said:
It is okay to be skeptical of driverless / autonomous vehicles for now because the technology is still in development, it is not okay to write off the entire idea because technology so far is telling us we will eventually have them.
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This technology is like the motor car & the airplane: it is inevitable.
 
Carjosse said:
I would argue it is right around the corner, there are production cars capable of driving themselves, Teslas.
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Yeah....they don't drive themselves. They have some hands-free driver assist, but they don't drive themselves. There have been a few cases where people have made that mistake and caused wrecks. The driver still must be present and alert, the computer cannot do everything.

There have been a few cities that had agreed to host the development of actual driverless cars (though technically there's still supposed to be a driver there in case the car goes all Terminator), but it's not something that's "right around the corner". There's a lot of development left and then tons of integration and replacement that needs to happen before it can begin to function efficiently.
 

You go into future far enough there are major changes that none of us could imagine. But I agree we have a long way to go for driverless cars. Trump will be long dead before that time comes.

I think we could possibly in many of our life times see cars have advanced technology to take over control of the vehicle when an oncoming accident is approaching. A "robot" may have quicker and correct reflexes than many drivers.
 

I can see eventually a fleet of self-driving trucks connected via cell phones to a central station where a single driver can control a fleet of trucks using TV & GPS as well as other instruments. Big potential savings over having a driver in each vehicle. He would not drive the trucks but would monitor them for safety, able to hit brakes, control speed, etc.
 
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When do you suppose was the last time that Trump drove a car himself?
 

Oops dropped call....
 

People don’t trust driverless cars. Researchers are trying to change that

The ad, from computer chip–maker Intel in Santa Clara, California, is aimed at overcoming what could be one of the biggest obstacles to the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs): consumer distrust of the technology. Unnerved by the idea of not being in control—and by news of semi-AVs that have crashed, in one case killing the owner—many consumers are apprehensive. In a recent survey by AAA, for example, 78% of respondents said they were afraid to ride in an AV.

People don’t trust driverless cars. Researchers are trying to change that | Science | AAAS
 
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