Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Miffed at Siri

Automated cars will reduce accidents. Accidents will never be eliminated. Just as the climate will never stop changing.

~KLM

\\ "Antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists" ~Nikola Tesla //

On Dec 23, 2015, at 11:47 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Mm. All's well if the car is moving in a perfectly controlled space. As of yet, the wide world is not a perfectly controlled space.

Heck, even trains have nasty accidents from time to time, and steel rails are a much more controlled space than hundreds of thousands of miles of public highway can ever be.

On Dec 24, 2015, at 2:00 AM, Pabitra Saha pksaha000@yahoo.co.uk [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Automated cars do not depend only on maps to guide them. They have more than one set of duplicated redundancy providing sensors, radars and sonars to keep track of the surrounding, especially towards the direction they are moving in.
Best
PKS

On 24 Dec 2015, at 05:48, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> > Yes, really.
> >
> > Some don't trust them and use them merely as a guide and make their own decisions.
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> People who unquestioningly go where they're told to will not uncommonly get to a wrong place.
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> > How would I know? If there is a rare error, sobeit. No problem
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> Sometimes, like a wrong-way turn down a one-way street, it is very much a problem.

I wonder who takes the legal hit if an automated car causes an accident by following its mapping software. Map company, political subdivision that provided the data, software retailer, car manufacturer, or human non-driver?

Is this trip really necessary? No, but it's possible (sort of), so we're going there.