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Originally Posted by john70t

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Another question you should ask yourself is "Why are the feds even allowing companies to run experimental vehicles on public streets?"
Tesla was running an auto retrieve program where the car would drive itself to the front of the store from the parking lot. I believe a few people were hit. Seriously they let this happen? This belongs in the GMAFB category. Many functions should have remained in the data-sourcing stages until 100% accuracy was confirmed.

I'm sure that lots of politicians have thought "I've seen self driving cars in the sci-fi movies and Knight Rider, this is a great idea that will solve our accident problems."

If you don't put enough thought into it, it seems like a great idea. But obviously, there's A LOT to implementing it in a way that would make it ready for prime time.

I agree, it's insane that it's been beta tested on real streets. I guess the theory is that a lot of testing went on before that and then it was moved to real streets after the testing phase proved successful.

We are obviously a LONG way from telling "KITT" to come pick us up or getting into the car and telling it to take us drunk we're home or whatever.

Imagine sending one down one of the streets in New Orleans that's full of pedestrians, mall parking lots before Christmas, Airport pickup areas, etc....