[ryebreadistasty]

I wouldn't trust an autonomous vehicle at all unless it wasn't networked; in fact I've made sure that my car isn't networked at all due to the fact that autonomous or not they can be hacked by cutting power to everything except power steering, the radio, and the car outlets. Networking and control of the car being linked is asking for trouble, not to mention that somehow they fucked up the non-autonomous cars so that it's possible to hack those and drive them with a laptop too.

Link for the lazy: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

[ddingus]

Having driven very new cars, rentals mostly, there are few compelling features that I can't just add to an older, not smart car.

And that is exactly what I plan on doing for some time yet. Frankly, the bright nav screens, menus and other gunk prove quite distracting. I really hate most of them. A few can be dimmed, or turned off, but none seem to remember that state, always eager to display some warning or other.

Seems to me, if it always needs a warning, I really don't need it in the car.

I feel we are way over hype on self-driving vehicles. The tech is advancing nicely enough, but the problem scope still seems very large relative to what we've solved for.