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[#] Sun Feb 08 2015 10:30:06 UTC from dothebart

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.oO(I ride trains or busses for that)



[#] Sun Feb 08 2015 15:00:07 UTC from vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>

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If, for any reason, you are hit by a self-driven car, WHO DO YOU SUE?

[#] Sun Feb 08 2015 15:54:06 UTC from zooer

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triLcat, No I wouldn't give up driving for anyone of those reasons except for the last reason. I can't read
when I am in a car, I don't think I would watch a movie but then again I do watch tv/movies on planes. I enjoy
driving and the drive. Thankfully I have only been in two accidents. Once many many years ago when my mother
insisted I take her car because of the bad weather, I hit and ice patch and not being familuar with the car and
how to respond I slid into the other lane and was hit. I was traveling below the speed limit, was going around
a very slight bend in the road, the car kept going straight. I crossed the double yellow line enough to side
swipe the other car. They took off the rear bumper of my mother's car.

The second accident was in South Florida and traffic was traveling VERY slowly. I tapped the bumper of the car
ahead of me and it caused my car's bumper
to wrinkle slightly. This is the newer (97 model) rubber/plastic
bumper, not a good solid chrome bumper. The other driver didn't want to stop. I actually reported the accident
so I could not get charged with a hit and run... there were no tickets issued to me because the other driver
took off.

I am lucky in that sense. I do know that my driving skills will get worse as I age so I welcome the idea of
self driving cars and look forward to their use. For now, I still want to drive.

The owner of The Oatmeal dot com, Matt Inman was able to test drive... I mean tavel in one of Google's self
driving car on the public roads, here is his comments, in comic form, on it.
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car

[#] Mon Feb 09 2015 18:09:06 UTC from triLcat

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Bart - I used to work in Raanana - I live in Modiin (you can check a map if you care). At the time, a car ride took about 45-50 minutes, and bus would take 1:30-2:15 each way (1:30 was only if everything timed out perfectly, and it rarely did) and required a minimum of 3 buses. It's easy to understand why someone would prefer to take a car rather than spend an additional two to two and a half hours in transit daily.

 



[#] Mon Feb 09 2015 23:00:57 UTC from dothebart

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yea, looks pretty well connected by highway...

but probably not in terms of public transportation ;-)

one of the reasons to pick my current job and force my way out of gemalto (which one could argue did cost me some financial benefits on top of those I got) without trying to get other alternatives was the direct train connection, since I did not expect to find any job matching my profile remotely as close.

So far I'm pretty much satisfied with my choice.Best job I had in over a decade.



[#] Tue Feb 10 2015 16:09:58 UTC from dothebart

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being late to the smartwatch party, maybe not as late to the smart car party?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-employee-well-give-tesla-a-run-for-its-money-2015-2?r=US

We'll see.



[#] Fri Feb 13 2015 16:03:03 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Sun Feb 08 2015 10:00:07 AM EST from vince-q @ Cascade Lodge BBS
If, for any reason, you are hit by a self-driven car, WHO DO YOU SUE?

You sue Google because they have deep pockets.  Duh.



[#] Fri Feb 13 2015 21:00:25 UTC from vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>

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Feb 13 2015 8:03am from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd (Uncensored)
 
Sun Feb 08 2015 10:00:07 AM EST from vince-q @ Cascade Lodge BBS

If, for any reason, you are hit by a self-driven car, WHO DO YOU
SUE?







You sue Google because they have deep pockets.  Duh.


That all depends.
My bet is that any auto manufacturer selling a google-based driverless car will have to sign a "save and hold harmless" contract with google which will make google impervious to any litigation unless you are prepared to prove fraud and/or criminal liability. *Very* difficult in a civil court - that sort of claim normally does not survive Defendant's Motion to Quash/Dismiss ("Demurrer" in California) unless Prima Facie proofs are attached to the First Papers as Exhibits. And *that* is a practice most Plaintiffs do *not* follow since it does too much "hand tipping" at the very beginning instead of forcing Defendant into a round of Interrogatories which allows both sides to make *very* long, expensive and not always productive.


"Motion Practice" is the key to any successful bout of civil litigation. The goal is to make the ongoing process time-consuming and load up the legal fees of your opposition which goes to "encouraging them to settle" rather than continue to face what could easily amount to years of court hearings on motions, which will quickly run up legal fees that, in many cases, could rival the amount sought by the Plaintiff in the original filings, under the "theory" of "pay me or pay court fees and more lawyer bills, either way you're paying."

Of course, the Defendant can also play the "motion practice" game, so it can easily work both ways.

[#] Sat Feb 14 2015 15:28:50 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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If you're the family of a pedestrian who just got run down by a "Lexus Snobmobile - Powered By Google(tm)" then you aren't the one who signed the contract.
You're just some random third party who can sue the manufacturer (Lexus Snobmobiles Inc.) or the driver (Google).

But yes, you are correct in observing that Google would definitely invest a lot of time and money into motion practice the first time that happened, in order to avoid the onslaught of additional suits that would be filed if a bad precedent were to be set.

On the other hand, you can probably count on lots of people being paid by Microsoft to fling themselves in front of Google-driven cars to make things difficult.

Flying cars have been just a decade or two away for half a century now. At this point the problem isn't that we can't build them, it's that we can't trust the typical driver to operate one safely, and when pairs of them start falling out of the sky from accidents, the resulting lawsuits will consume 350% of the GDP, I like run-on sentences, and comma splices.

[#] Fri Jul 03 2015 08:40:24 UTC from dothebart

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hm.

Turning it off and on again not possible until a dealer fixes it

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/02/ford_recall_software_bug/

(from the feeds ;-)

 



[#] Mon Jul 06 2015 23:56:32 UTC from zooer

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That really sucks if you have to park your car outside and can't get to a dealer when it fails.

[#] Sun Jul 19 2015 00:19:56 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Feh. Real drivers disconnect the battery when they're done driving.

[#] Mon Jul 20 2015 15:31:22 UTC from dothebart

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you may find some cars start up with emergency mode in the engine control, tuning up the parameters during the first hours of use.. have fun with that ;-P



[#] Mon Jul 27 2015 01:01:14 UTC from Freakdog <freakdog@dogpound2.citadel.org>

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Is this room still around?

[#] Mon Jul 27 2015 01:21:38 UTC from zooer

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No, it does not exist.

[#] Mon Jul 27 2015 04:12:53 UTC from vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>

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Not here, either.... ;)

[#] Mon Jul 27 2015 12:23:54 UTC from Freakdog <freakdog@dogpound2.citadel.org>

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Mon Jul 27 2015 12:12:53 AM EDT from vince-q @ Cascade Lodge BBS
Not here, either.... ;)

Good.



[#] Mon Jul 27 2015 15:43:54 UTC from LoanShark

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This room has died in a car fire. Move along.

[#] Thu Jul 30 2015 19:51:29 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Make the air bag deploy by pushing a button on your smartphone ... just for fun?

[#] Sun Sep 20 2015 15:10:13 UTC from dothebart

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fahrvergnuegen your ass - I guess thats why reverse engeneering is forbidden in the US?



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