Just for fun...

[6zfshdb]

Owner must be a roofer

 

[Mr. Coffee]

Good question, which raises another.
Do you need a drivers license to own and ride in an autonomous vehicle of any kind?

I think there are two related questions:

1. Could an autonomous vehicle be allowed to drive around without any human in the vehicle at all?
2. Could someone who was intoxicated be in an autonomous vehicle and not get a DWI?

I imagine it is going to take many years to work all that out. Working that out will (in many ways) be more complex and ugly than getting autonomous vehicles to work reliably enough (which they still don't) in the first place. At this point in time all known autonomous vehicles still have scary failure modes that require human intervention with very rapid reaction times.

 

[PedalUma]

I hear that they are popular in LA.

Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Los Angeles, CA - Waymo

Fully autonomous rides are in LA County. With hundreds of millions of miles of driving experience across multiple cities, we can’t wait to bring Waymo, our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, to you.

waymo.com

 

[Mr. Coffee]

I hear that they are popular in LA.

Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Los Angeles, CA - Waymo

Fully autonomous rides are in LA County. With hundreds of millions of miles of driving experience across multiple cities, we can’t wait to bring Waymo, our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, to you.

waymo.com

https://www.reuters.com/technology/waymo-defends-use-remote-assistance-workers-robotaxi-operations-2026-02-17/

 

[Chargeride]

I think there are two related questions:

1. Could an autonomous vehicle be allowed to drive around without any human in the vehicle at all?
2. Could someone who was intoxicated be in an autonomous vehicle and not get a DWI?

I imagine it is going to take many years to work all that out. Working that out will (in many ways) be more complex and ugly than getting autonomous vehicles to work reliably enough (which they still don't) in the first place. At this point in time all known autonomous vehicles still have scary failure modes that require human intervention with very rapid reaction times.

In a robo taxi...no
If its got a steering wheel yes.

 

[Chargeride]

First attempt at AI Odyssey with Grok.
Its dreadful, but so was the first Will Smith spaghetti.
Try not to mock.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Do you mean the latest idea from the nazi billionaire?

 

[Chargeride]

Im sure that post lit up a light in the Kremlin.
Finger scrolls down page of large dusty book.
Ste..stef..stefan

Eats hokay, just a faded poonkrocker

 

[kevinmccune]

But would they allow autonomous flying cars.

only if they could regulate and tax the heck out of the owners,there would always be a "navigation"tax.

 

[kevinmccune]

Do you mean the latest idea from the nazi billionaire?

do you think he is related to "Von Braun"?(Sehr gut!) I am anxiously awaiting that promised 15K$ house.

 

[kevinmccune]

Im sure that post lit up a light in the Kremlin.
Finger scrolls down page of large dusty book.
Ste..stef..stefan

Eats hokay, just a faded poonkrocker

"Big Red" is watching you( not St Nick either-you have 2 choices)

 

[kevinmccune]

One Fall morning I hear bad noises as a car tried to start. Then shocking screams of Horror! It was Halloween morning. The owner's cat had climbed up into the engine compartment with all the belts to absorb the warmth.
Turkeys like to land on cars and surf down on their claws, again and again, it is fun. Soon, on October 12th they will get their payback in Canada!

we had a cat like that once,lost front paw in a leg hold trap and his tail fell victim to a v belt( it was really gross when he would rub against you with that skeletonized tail bone,finally a poleax amputated the remnants (a little spurt of blood and "yowel" he was back home in a few hours,that surgery must have hurt less then the dead tail!(so it goes)
'

 

[kevinmccune]

Thats a long swim for a penguin

actually,things being what they are,the late great cymbal weeding penguin must have escaped the zoo( wrong continent)

 

[Chargeride]