Satan?

Holy holy fuck. That’s terrifying. I thought it was bad enough when he crashed and burst into flames, but no, destiny is a bitch and of course he had to get crashed into again!

Sounds good. In all seriousness, that’s probably the best way forward, and what seems more likely for the next decade or two.

amen

How the hell does that happen?!

I’ll be completely honest: I had to google “Porsche 916" to see what it is.

Good idea. What’s your plan?

Well, at least the idea. Not the actual cars.

Retro concepts are always cool.

Okay. Misunderstanding. My fault. I was more generally referring to autonomy in all vehicles, which would drastically reduce lives lost.

That doesn’t sound very fun...and rather dangerous.

Is there a third choice?

So I guess what I’m getting from that is that autonomous tech will still need human supervision and occasional intervention for years to come? That makes sense, seeing as humans are much better at disaster avoidance than robots.

So damn cool reading this old story. I am inspired.

Good point...i hadn’t thought of that. Let’s settle on 250,000, which sounds like a nice number for all the countries with real echoes of safety standards. Still, that’s a lot of lives to be saved, even if we narrow it down further to 200k or even 175k. And at some point autonomy will reach most places so that number…

Yikes. Autonomy sounds like a mess. It’ll be worth it once you guys figure it out though...so we can avoid accidents like this one.

Are you fucking shitting me?! Do you even know how many fucking people died on the roads last year? Take a guess. Hint: Not “a couple hundred.”

+1

I see what you did there

Of course. You bring up an excellent point. That’s how Joshua Brown died: he put too much faith in the computers on his cars. You’re completely right; computers do screw up occasionally.