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... it is from Apple, it probably won't let me in and I'd have to walk behind.
If it is from Microsoft, I would wait till version 3+.
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You missed Google: it rides a detour (while it knows your shopping because of your smartphone position) to update the maps database. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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Because it will be tested extremely carefully, and let's be honest here:
1) The testing will be a lot, lot more careful and rigorous than the testing given to teenagers before they are allowed on the road.
2) Even a computer with no IQ or common sense is going to be a better driver than 90% of the idiots already on the road.
I mean, come on! Never mind people driving while on their mobile / cell, or texting: I've seen people reading the paper while driving in heavy traffic; searching in the glove box for the right CD; so drunk they can't stand up unaided; once I saw someone with his laptop open on his dashboard, typing away and steering with his elbows!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, might be better if those other drivers would try self-driving cars first. 
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Oh come on! Most geeks are early adopters!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Most geeks are early adopters
I guess I just lost any hope of becoming a geek.
I always wait for others (early adopters as you called them) to take the first bullet. Or three.
Saves lots of time, expense, and it extreme cases, getting in line for two days for the latest Apple phone which has a massive improvement over the last: they gave it a new and higher number!
Or perhaps I'm a new improved version of geek: having learned from observation I find waiting for something that actually works supplies that satisfying thrill (in this case, because I didn't buy something that either needed six upgrades or was beta-max'd off of life's shelf)
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I don't see myself as a particulary good driver, but at least I don't run into infinite loops, stack overflows, null references (well, not often anyway), security exceptions, deadlocks, timeouts, out of memory exceptions, file not founds, typeloader exceptions or general exceptions... 
Lots of cars don't even have their on board computers right. Like that time my navigation wanted to send me straight out in a grassy field 
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Once I had to take the 8th exit of a roundabout that had 5 -> I took the 8th but the right one was the 2nd... It only costed me 15 kms at 01:00 AM. I couldn't turn back right away because it put me on a high speed way.
Several day later it asked me to take the 5th exit on a roundabout that had 3. And the maps were the latest and I know for sure nobody changed anything in the roads.
Nay, I wouldn't use a car programmed by the smae ID-10Ts that deploy the shotty web applications now online. As I wouldn't drive a car developed by a company that in any moment could ask me to buy an optional upgrade if I wish to take the highways.
My freedom, even to make poor choices, is my freedom. I won't give it to a machine.
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hummmm (thinking!)... my wife would have someone else to blame for the wrong turns!
Yeah, I would! 
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only if it have dual - manual and auto both...
As its already in culture there is auto-pilot mode, metro is automatic.
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I'll second that - IF something goes wrong (can't be ruled out) I'd prefer to be able to take over...
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I think the idea of "driver-less" cars, is just another example of mankind distancing themselves from one another. Everyday, we become less and less, sociable.
I think the title of this silly poll should have started as, "As a human..."
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To put the question of the poll in other words: As a software developer, do you trust software to drive you safely and secure from A to B?
Wondering, what society criticism has to do with this plain question...
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I guess your answer may reveal how well you trust the integrity of your own code... 
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...developers assure that there is no infinite loop in the code...
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Rohan Leuva wrote: assure that there is no infinite loop in the code
That's impossible. See the Halting Problem[^]
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Anecdote told by a Stanford University CS Prof:
In the early days of computing, there was a chip-making company that advertised: "Our processors are so fast that they can run an infinite loop in 2.5 minutes".
Well, that was true in a sense, since in 2 minutes and 30 seconds, the chip would develop such intense heat that it would burn itself out
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I have not trusted self driving cars since reading Stranger in a Strange Land and RAH points out that there will be more than just the dangers of the road. It would have to have proof against remote take-over.
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The safe way is the best way to live.
If you've never failed... You've never lived...
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Interesting combination of comment and signature...
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always
If you've never failed... You've never lived...
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