[Blindtlk] Driverless Cars

[Jude DaShiell]

You don't drive in a driverless car.  The only things that get in them 
are passengers and luggage of various types.
As I understand the technology it's going to be under-designed and that 
under-design will cost lives.  Not so much of passengers but rather 
pedestrians. These cars would need to get flight capabilities so that if 
negotiation of a section of road were temporarily impossible they could 
lift off for distance sufficient to bypass the obstacles and continue on 
their way.  Hovercraft technology could do this if it were part of 
standard design but that'll not be the case for the first vehicles put 
on the roads.  A school bus and large truck having an accident in an 
intersection just ahead of a driverless car that happens too soon for 
the driverless car to take an alternate route to bypass such an accident 
with children and whatever the truck looses all over the intersection 
would be one of the scenarios where flight capability would be more than 
a nice to have feature on a driverless car.

On Sun, 1 Jan 2017, Jen via blindtlk wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 16:22:07
> From: Jen via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Jen <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Driverless Cars
> 
> Hi everyone,
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> What is your opinion of driver-less cars? Personally, I can't wait for their
> arrival on the road! I'm totally blind from birth and would like the chance
> to drive, just to feel what it feels like. My best friend, who happens to be
> sighted, feels otherwise though.
>
> How about you?
>
>
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