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It's not an argument. It's sharing different opinions,with the hope from both parties that there might be some new information made avaialble.
Average car on the road today is close to 12 years old (USA). I think technology that avoids accidents is exceptional.
I also understand the limitations (to some degree) of computers, having been raised by a father who was working with them since the 1950s.
It does not make me any authority, but it does give me 5 decades of experience. I tell people the last mistake made in my life will be the hearse going to the wrong cemetary.
Driving is a evolutionary process, a constant state of revision of techniques. After 48 years I am still learning and riding a motorcycle is a real test of defensive driving.
At some point in the future automated cars might exist, but if it reaches that point, my belief is that cars as we know them will not exist in that environment. Automated vehcle operation requires a much higher level of preventative maintenance that most people are willing to tolerate, just as those who advocate electric powered cars rarely consider the consequences of a vehicle population that is 12years old, much less 20 years old. Planned obsolescence will eliminate any car beyond a certain age and even if they magically became fully automated, every one sold new instantly. I'll be 83 years old and there will still be non automated cars on the road.
Why even bother with vehicles carrying their fuel supplies, regardless of their constitution when there are better options available.
Another problem with automated cars will be the lethargy of drivers whose skills are allowed to atrophy to the point where they will not be capable of operating a vehicle.
They even cling to the piloted combat aircraft, when the human being is the limiting factor in combat performance.
I drive a new car and I love the technology that has allowed it to function more efficiently. I love the idea of override systems to prevent catastrophe.
There is nothing wrong with the highest levels of self confidence. The problem arises when that self confidence evolves into conciet and the belief that others are not capable of the same skills or techniques.
My grandfather was illiterate, but when it came to his skills at commercial fishing he was a genius. With a brother killed in a schoolyard incident, his parents took him out of school in his first year and he started working with his father at the age of 6. Always try to understand that others who you do not know well, may appear to you to be of lower intelligence, but I have learned from functionally illiterate people, and I try to understand the circumstances and have found, like grandpa, that we are not well equipped to pass judgement on others.
regards
Mech
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