Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

That's easy to remedy, just have a screen with a face where the headrest is to nod back at you. Sorted.

From the image... it's nods in other cars... i.e. when you're in a car waiting to turn onto a road, and a car pauses and nods for you to quickly go.

And that nod often leads a driver to just pull out into the path of a two-wheeler without looking, so fuck them, fuck their nods, and fuck their whining about robocars meaning safer driving.

The goons' right to get the shops two miles down the road as quickly as possible must be respected at all costs, @bothwell. What could be more important?

Fucking pricks. Honestly.

I think the main reason why people are worried about this is because driving = freedom to them, by losing that freedom, they have nothing worth living for.

fuck their whining

their in this case being the CTC who produced the above image as a warning that robocars will be a new set of issues in addition to the existing issues.

CTC

Fuck the CTC and their pandering to the hegemony of the private car!

Edit: I'm not actually certain that image was produced by the CTC. It's on their domain, but it's just an attachment in a forum post in this thread: http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=93512

It doesn't read / look like anything I've seen from the CTC.

There's no beards.

That'd only be a matter of time.. in the meantime, play it safe and by the rules and the other person will go. No problem.

Mass suicide! Solves over-population as well. We must have robot cars NOW!

Once people realise that driverless cars allow more booze drinking it will be a done deal.

Once people realise that driverless cars allow text driving, it will be a done deal.

FTFY.

The image is on their domain.

Ah, right you are... turns out it's The Sunday Times.

That explains a lot.

Maybe for the first time ever, people will finally give way to buses.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11401206/Driverless-cars-may-bring-city-centres-to-a-halt-unless-Highway-Code-is-re-written.html

"Driverless cars will use the correct overtaking distance when passing cyclists, so the highway code needs to be changed so they use the same dangerous distance that I pass at when I'm hooning about in my Audi"

Fuck off, Swinford

They're here.

Or at least in Greenwich.

BBC Breakfast are running a feature on them this morning, there is a slow moving shuttle bus at the O2 and other trials in MK (using the cycle network) and Bristol.

It's as if someone from the the Telegraph, went back in time 22 days to read this thread (or CTC's forum) about the highway code then came back to write this article. (Scarily someone on-here may have gone back to 1984 and seen the movie Terminator since all these refrences to #skynet keep popping up)

Steven Swinford is clearly a cretinous cunt who I imagine is one of the 90% of drivers who believe themselves 'better than average', hence his assumption that his 'experience' knows better than the highway code.
However, is there any chance that this could tighten up the rules? Instead of a vague 'give same distance as a car', a change to an exact (and hopefully objectively safer) distance?

Might be worth contacting the professor quoted (http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campusgp-parkhurst) to get some context on the quotes used.

Another reason to get robocars in as quickly as possible.

I'm all for them - I enjoy driving in theory but actually only about 1% of real-world driving is fun. Much prefer being chauffeured about.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31364441