According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 2013 there were 32,719 fatalities on US roads in 2013. One wonders how many of them could have been prevented if distracted driving was eliminated as a cause.
Yes I think even if we don’t get to full self driving in the near future the ability of cars to sense your surroundings and avoid tailgating and the associated rear enders, obstructed vision lane changes and hitting pedestrians who either you don’t notice or they absentmindedly step into traffic. If we get to ‘you can steer’ but you can’t tailgate, can’t run red lights, can’t change lanes with insufficient room etc. the roads will be a lot safer. On another note, as my electric car gives me lots of statistics; one that pop into my head is that my average daily commute speed is about 20mph. Can you imagine a day when self driving cars talked to each other and talked to smart interactions. I might be able to raise my average speed to 25mph and avoid the stress of lane weaving and rushing light and honking at slow drivers :-) Lawrence > On Apr 6, 2015, at 1:16 PM, SLPinfo.org via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Clearly the technology needs work, but part of me welcomes them. But I've > never been in love with driving. I just want to get to my destination in > one piece. As my own senses and reflexes fade with age and having just > taken the keys away from an elderly parent who (thankfully) didn't kill > anyone in a recent accident, I can see a big portion of the population > welcoming the possibility of increased safety on the roads. > > Peter Flipsen Jr > Hillsboro, OR > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:32 PM, damon henry via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > >> All it will take for most people to move over to self driving cars is $5 a >> month off their insurance :) >> damon >> >>> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 19:07:42 +0000 >>> To: electricb...@embarqmail.com; ev@lists.evdl.org >>> Subject: Re: [EVDL] self driving cars >>> From: ev@lists.evdl.org >>> >>> >>> Yeah, >>> >>> Maybe these same people would accept some sort of artificial >> intelligence program which would analyse their facebook postingsand social >> media and automatically vote for them in elections. If they will trust >> their lives going 70 mph to some computer algorithm by some nameless >> programmers who work for some corporation (who can't even make a web >> browser that doesn't fail), why wouldn't they trust a corporation to >> automatically vote for them? >>> >>> After all...what could go wrong? >>> Am I missing something? >>> >>> >>> >>> From: Electric Blue auto convertions via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> >>> To: ev@lists.evdl.org >>> Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 11:09 AM >>> Subject: [EVDL] self driving cars >>> >>> The day Im forced to get into a self driving car is when I take my shot >> gun and blow it away . the very thought if a SDC makes me vomit >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: < >> http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150406/c4b4c2e5/attachment.htm >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >>> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >>> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: < >> http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150406/bfa1b9f5/attachment.htm >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >>> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >>> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >>> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150406/2554e844/attachment.htm >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150406/348ab7c7/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
