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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Good to know that its actually for blind people who don't want a taxi.
Here I thought the goal of autonomous cars was to prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year (in the United States alone) and millions more injuried. Even ignoring the tragedy of death, look at it from an economic perspective. Every year, tens of billions (hundreds?) are spent on treating the injured. Billions more are lost due to disability, either temporary or permanent. There's probably a few billion spent just replacing cars that have been totalled. If autonomous cars could simply halve the accident rate, and then diminish the severity for those that were unavoidable (death becomes serious injury, minor injuries become nothing) it would be a huge economic boom.
But sure ... the goal is to make people lazy.
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So safety is the goal? Then why isn't this eye-ball detection with alerts, sounds, stimuli, etc., used full time all the time
with the hands on the wheel? And keep the driver's attention on the road, not something else? Why is it only coming about so you can do fewer driving functions by taking your hands off the wheel? Is there a push to disable SmartPhones and hand-held devices inside the car in the interest of safety?
Instead of trying to determine what the driver may be up to, the hand held devices could be disabled in the interest of safety when inside the car by this available technology.
Creating a system allowing the driver to take his hands off the wheel and continue driving, then touting safety is just amazing. It's a recipe for disaster.