Am I the only person who doesn't want driverless cars?

I only know of one other. And she doesn't post here.

I'm with you. I love driving. Maybe in 40 years when my reaction time is diminishing and I become a threat to others, but frick this 10-15 years crap that people spout all the time. In reality, I think it'll be quite a while before this becomes the norm for the majority of drivers on the road.

I'm not really liking the idea. Will I still be able to speed? Can I still run from the cops? Can I still park illegally? Can I still do donuts in an open field?

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I actually enjoy driving

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I do to some extent. I never get motion sickness while i'm driving.

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Will I still be able to speed?

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without traffic jams there will be no need to speed.

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Can I still park illegally?

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your car will drive you to your destination then go park itself

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I'm not ready to have the govt tell me that I'm no longer allowed to do something that I've done since age 15 legally.

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Why would you no longer be allowed to?

Just because some people will opt for driverless cars and chill with a beer or three while cruising from point A to point B doesn't mean you have to.

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They can pry the wheel from my cold dead fingers.

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Chances of this happening are exponentially higher with humans driving cars vs robots driving cars.

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Just because some people will opt for driverless cars and chill with a beer or three while cruising from point A to point B doesn't mean you have to.

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Eventually, driverless cars will be mandated. Any other setup will be deemed immoral due to lives being needlessly put at risk.

As long as it's optional I'm good with it. If it becomes mandatory by law, then I guess no more taking the muscle car out for a spin, or a classic, or a jacked truck with big nuts. In all seriousness some of us like to fire up the old V8 and go for a spin or take the old Bronco 4x4 out to the country for some off-roading. It would be great for the elderly and clueless drivers.

I'm more curious about how they plan to address the moral dilemmas driverless cars will face.

Driverless Cars will Face Moral Dilemmas

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A self-driving car carrying a family of four on a rural two-lane highway spots a bouncing ball ahead. As the vehicle approaches a child runs out to retrieve the ball. Should the car risk its passengers’ lives by swerving to the side—where the edge of the road meets a steep cliff? Or should the car continue on its path, ensuring its passengers’ safety at the child’s expense? This scenario and many others pose moral and ethical dilemmas that carmakers, car buyers and regulators must address before vehicles should be given full autonomy, according to a study published Thursday in Science.

The study highlights paradoxes facing carmakers, car buyers and regulators as driverless technology accelerates. Most of the 1,928 research participants in the Science report indicated that they believed vehicles should be programmed to crash into something rather than run over pedestrians, even if that meant killing the vehicle’s passengers. “The algorithms that control [autonomous vehicles] will need to embed moral principles guiding their decisions in situations of unavoidable harm,” according to the researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oregon and France’s Toulouse School of Economics for the National Center for Scientific Research.

Yet many of the same study participants balked at the idea of buying such a vehicle, preferring to ride in a driverless car that prioritizes their own safety above that of pedestrians. The researchers concluded that if lawmakers were to prioritize pedestrians over passengers when regulating self-driving vehicles, people would be less likely to buy those vehicles. A shrinking market for driverless cars would slow their development despite research showing that autonomous vehicles could potentially reduce traffic, cut pollution and save thousands of lives each year—human error contributes to 90 percent of all traffic accidents.

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