Of course they’re two different problem sets.  I’m just saying currently neither exists in a form anywhere close to being ready to implement.  Even if you can overcome the technical issues (which are staggering for both possibilities), then you get into the liability aspect.  With an autonomous vehicle, the liability…

Agreed, I played all 3 but 1 and 2 were my favorites for pure physics-based car-driving chaos.  Getting out and walking around in 3 sounded awesome to me, but I ended up not enjoying it as much as the first 2.

Oh man, I forgot about Driver!  I spent a ridiculous amount of hours on the first one.

I once had a Ford Fusion rental slam on the brakes while going around a sharp turn in the mountains because a semi was coming down the hill on the other side of the road.  Worst part was I knew it would happen and told the wife to prepare for the car to slam on the brakes.

The point is that driving a vehicle remotely is incredibly different than being in the car driving. For one, the perceived risk is lower, second it’s a lot harder to judge distance and detail when viewing a camera feed, or even if wearing some sort of VR/AR headset. Solving that along with having a foolproof control…

Same, but GT4 was my favorite.  I’m super excited that GT7 seems to be pulling a lot of influence from GT4's world layout, hoping it can recreate some of what made that game so great.

Favorite game of all time: Gran Turismo 4

That’s a lot of liability for someone to take on, especially if there’s any interference with the signal.  Sounds good in theory, but I doubt it would be much easier to implement safely than actual autonomy.

I think it’s an important distinction to make, though.  I heard someone else talking about BMW’s “color changing car” and they said “just imagine robbing a bank with it.  You could go in with a blue car and then change it to green”, which is something that this car absolutely cannot do.  A true color-changing car…

Ah, we’re using ignorant laziness as an excuse. I suppose laziness is the opposite of pedantry, so sure.

When someone tells me something changes color, I expect more than “I can make it darker or lighter”.

Exactly.

That’s not pedantry, it’s expecting some amount of basic understanding of what words mean. Which I guess in this day and age is not something one should expect anymore.

Our crosswalks here are typically a good 6'-8' back from the edge of the intersection.  While my car may not be entirely in front of it, you’d have to be a maniac to try crossing in front as you’d nearly need to walk into cross-traffic to get past.  I’m not sure how anyone would be able to properly see oncoming…

How is right-on-red any more dangerous than pulling out of a parking lot onto the same street?

I don’t think he meant the roads in the south are worse than New England roads, just that the roads in New England are much closer to the type of roads they would have in the UK (not necessarily the same quality).

This is because SoCal has foothills.  A good 60% of the country (mostly in the middle) has no such things.  Why anyone would own a Miata in rural Illinois I have no idea.

The Midwest is an incredibly boring area to be a car enthusiast, yet it has the highest percentage by far. It does help explain why muscle cars have always been so popular and small, light sports cars and hatchbacks not, doesn’t it?

I’m slightly confused about how this happened. Are you crossing in front of the stopped traffic waiting to turn right, or are you crossing the road they’re turning onto? 99% of the time if I’m turning right on red, nearly my entire car is past the crosswalk as I wait, so I don’t know how I would hit someone crossing…

So what you’re saying is that nobody wants to claim Virginia?