Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted January 12 Posted January 12 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/11/autonomous-vehicles-self-driving-musk-trump/ LAS VEGAS — After years of hype and overpromises the message from tech industry leaders on the eve of Donald Trump’s return to the White House was clear this week: The robot drivers have arrived. As tens of thousands of nerds and assorted gearheads gathered to marvel at new technology at the annual CES show, huge billboard screens over the Las Vegas Strip heralded the recent deployment of Zoox’s strange-looking robotaxi — which doesn’t have a steering wheel or any other normal controls — proclaiming, “It’s not a car.” With Trump’s inauguration approaching — and with Tesla chief executive Elon Musk at his side and betting his own company’s future on its robotaxi — the industry’s optimism also extends to Washington. Executives viewed officials in Trump’s first term as friendly. Now, with vehicles on the road carrying paying customers, the executives are excited by the prospect of Republicans using their new power to set standards that will help them expand from a handful of cities to communities across the nation. The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association, a trade group, this week called for creating common standards, an effort to build public confidence by setting a baseline for safety. It also proposed eliminating safety rules that require steering wheels and pedals in self-driving cars. But while the push to replace human drivers is being sold on the promise that the robots will be far safer, the public remains deeply skeptical that autonomous vehicles can themselves be trusted. High-profile crashes — including a woman dragged by a Cruise autonomous vehicle in San Francisco — along with a string of less serious incidents have shaken faith in the industry as a whole.
Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted January 12 Author Posted January 12 Todd Inman, a Republican member of the National Transportation Safety Board and a senior transportation official during Trump’s first term, told a small group of industry figures Wednesday that there was now an opportunity to educate Trump’s team and build a fresh case for how autonomous vehicles can boost safety. “We are pulling for you,” Inman said. “So I hope you’re successful.” The Biden administration recently rejected a request that autonomous trucks be allowed to use warning beacons in an emergency, rather than having a person get out and place warning triangles on the road, saying there wasn’t enough evidence that the beacons would be safe enough. The decision by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration makes if far more complicated for the companies to operate without anyone aboard their trucks. Don Burnette, the founder of the autonomous trucking company Kodiak, said the decision was a problem for the industry but one that could readily be resolved as a new team takes over the truck safety agency under Trump and companies ask for a do-over. “We’ll go back and we’ll reapply to the new administration,” Burnette said. “We’ll have conversations about this, so I don’t think this is a huge stumbling block.”
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted January 12 Posted January 12 11 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/11/autonomous-vehicles-self-driving-musk-trump/ LAS VEGAS — After years of hype and overpromises the message from tech industry leaders on the eve of Donald Trump’s return to the White House was clear this week: The robot drivers have arrived. As tens of thousands of nerds and assorted gearheads gathered to marvel at new technology at the annual CES show, huge billboard screens over the Las Vegas Strip heralded the recent deployment of Zoox’s strange-looking robotaxi — which doesn’t have a steering wheel or any other normal controls — proclaiming, “It’s not a car.” With Trump’s inauguration approaching — and with Tesla chief executive Elon Musk at his side and betting his own company’s future on its robotaxi — the industry’s optimism also extends to Washington. Executives viewed officials in Trump’s first term as friendly. Now, with vehicles on the road carrying paying customers, the executives are excited by the prospect of Republicans using their new power to set standards that will help them expand from a handful of cities to communities across the nation. The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association, a trade group, this week called for creating common standards, an effort to build public confidence by setting a baseline for safety. It also proposed eliminating safety rules that require steering wheels and pedals in self-driving cars. But while the push to replace human drivers is being sold on the promise that the robots will be far safer, the public remains deeply skeptical that autonomous vehicles can themselves be trusted. High-profile crashes — including a woman dragged by a Cruise autonomous vehicle in San Francisco — along with a string of less serious incidents have shaken faith in the industry as a whole. Accidents aside—-Sounds like a net positive for the climate change crowd? You likey? 1
Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted January 12 Author Posted January 12 1 minute ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said: Accidents aside—-Sounds like a net positive for the climate change crowd? You likey? The media! There are FEWER accidents than human drivers but if an automonous vehicles goes nuts its all over the news. My cousin Bob beats up his wife, drives over an old lady, you don't hear much about it. But if the robot looks the wrong way, news at 11 I am invested in ....wait for it...electric flying taxis! No lie Joby Aviation is the future. https://www.jobyaviation.com/
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted January 12 Posted January 12 27 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said: The media! There are FEWER accidents than human drivers but if an automonous vehicles goes nuts its all over the news. My cousin Bob beats up his wife, drives over an old lady, you don't hear much about it. But if the robot looks the wrong way, news at 11 I am invested in ....wait for it...electric flying taxis! No lie Joby Aviation is the future. https://www.jobyaviation.com/ Interesting. I did a quick read on it, certainly seems to have the potential to change travel as we know it. Remember me when you hit big!
Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted January 12 Author Posted January 12 Just now, leh-nerd skin-erd said: Interesting. I did a quick read on it, certainly seems to have the potential to change travel as we know it. Remember me when you hit big! Traveling on the coasts is just getting stupid slow, maybe this relieves some of that. They already have a plant in Dayton Ohio so it is moving forward
T master Posted January 12 Posted January 12 43 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/11/autonomous-vehicles-self-driving-musk-trump/ LAS VEGAS — After years of hype and overpromises the message from tech industry leaders on the eve of Donald Trump’s return to the White House was clear this week: The robot drivers have arrived. As tens of thousands of nerds and assorted gearheads gathered to marvel at new technology at the annual CES show, huge billboard screens over the Las Vegas Strip heralded the recent deployment of Zoox’s strange-looking robotaxi — which doesn’t have a steering wheel or any other normal controls — proclaiming, “It’s not a car.” With Trump’s inauguration approaching — and with Tesla chief executive Elon Musk at his side and betting his own company’s future on its robotaxi — the industry’s optimism also extends to Washington. Executives viewed officials in Trump’s first term as friendly. Now, with vehicles on the road carrying paying customers, the executives are excited by the prospect of Republicans using their new power to set standards that will help them expand from a handful of cities to communities across the nation. The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association, a trade group, this week called for creating common standards, an effort to build public confidence by setting a baseline for safety. It also proposed eliminating safety rules that require steering wheels and pedals in self-driving cars. But while the push to replace human drivers is being sold on the promise that the robots will be far safer, the public remains deeply skeptical that autonomous vehicles can themselves be trusted. High-profile crashes — including a woman dragged by a Cruise autonomous vehicle in San Francisco — along with a string of less serious incidents have shaken faith in the industry as a whole. I know technology is changing the world we live in and very soon could look more like the movie I robot but if i order a uber and it shows up with out a driver sorry i'm out !! There will come a time when a dam rodent gets into one of the computers or some hacker that thinks human life isn't precious and some kind of something will go wrong, or lets say a communist country will hack the system and chaos could come from it & some people could be injured or worse . I know because i drive for a living that there are some pretty bad drivers out on the roads i see it every time i go to work but at least when i'm at work i'm for the most part in control . My trust in humanity after years of being on this earth has went way down but my trust in technology, well lets say i just have little to none for it . Yes i am old school and will be long gone before any of this is a every day thing and then ya'll can deal with it but i won't be guinea pig until they get the kinks worked out, mistakes always happen with new tech no matter what it is so i'll sit back and if by chance one of these new fangled cars hit me i'll be really rich .
Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted January 12 Author Posted January 12 1 minute ago, T master said: I know technology is changing the world we live in and very soon could look more like the movie I robot but if i order a uber and it shows up with out a driver sorry i'm out !! There will come a time when a dam rodent gets into one of the computers or some hacker that thinks human life isn't precious and some kind of something will go wrong, or lets say a communist country will hack the system and chaos could come from it & some people could be injured or worse . I know because i drive for a living that there are some pretty bad drivers out on the roads i see it every time i go to work but at least when i'm at work i'm for the most part in control . My trust in humanity after years of being on this earth has went way down but my trust in technology, well lets say i just have little to none for it . Yes i am old school and will be long gone before any of this is a every day thing and then ya'll can deal with it but i won't be guinea pig until they get the kinks worked out, mistakes always happen with new tech no matter what it is so i'll sit back and if by chance one of these new fangled cars hit me i'll be really rich . Have you met some of the people you share the road with? At least the robot won't be sniffing coke and checking out some skirt on the sidewalk. (I have been in one accident in my life, I was checking out these girls in a car next to me and rolled into a bus) They are safer than humans!
T master Posted January 12 Posted January 12 1 minute ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said: Have you met some of the people you share the road with? At least the robot won't be sniffing coke and checking out some skirt on the sidewalk. (I have been in one accident in my life, I was checking out these girls in a car next to me and rolled into a bus) They are safer than humans! I also have been in 1 wreck and it was due to a part breaking on a vehicle while i was driving down the road, thank god i was the only one involved and was very young when this vehicle flipped over by the grace of god i wasn't hurt i think more because of my age than anything . But now i have a newer vehicle that has a computer in it and one day just out of the blue it decided it didn't want to work any more, the car would start then shut off then nothing then it would again decide to run and i had to have it towed to the dealer which attempted to fix it, when they did get the new computer put in it it wouldn't sinc up with another part so they had to change that so . It now runs but the human element/mechanic couldn't get it fixed completely . And the one thing your forgetting about is what about the tech/mechanic that goes on his or her lunch break and comes back higher than hawks feet or is having a fight with their significant other or is a functioning alcoholic and just doesn't do their job correctly . Just like those Boeing jets that doors were flying off of and they had to pull all the new jets from service . There will be those kind of things happening so i'll do me until the kinks are worked out and will depend on you to let me know how it's going and if you get rich off of it good for you & god bless you ... 1
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