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Originally Posted by oldE
Being from the Frozen North, I'm not sure what applicability the Constitution has to do with autonomous operation of motor vehicles. Maybe they missed in writing that part.
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(cough parf)
In this country, provisions in the 4th Amendment guarantee rights against unauthorized surveillance.
Yes, Britain and the Queen has already fallen.
I'm sorry.
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Originally Posted by oldE
Are you going to be forced to purchase one? I doubt it for the next 20 years.
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Because only a few knuckleheads(with good attorneys I might add) once thought a Ford Explorer was a road racer,
every vehicle in the U.S. now has federally mandated traction control and crumple zones.
That is why you currently can't purchase a re-manufactured reproduction Early Pcar.
(I might add: Possible hacking of the Toyota Prius systems were not covered by the 6 o'clock news.)
Because of U.S. federal mandates, the extra weight and complexity severely degrades corporate industry CAFE average fuel economy standards, and adds corporate costs to both initial price-point and future repairs.
All this is passed along to the customer/commuter/worker/transporter/consumer.
Sorry I'm sounding like a Luddite...and in certain ways I am...but progress sometimes requires two steps forward and one step back.
Now is a good time to step back and consider the implications of enacting any standard en a mass scale.
Not just tomorrow, but 10 years from now.