Boss NQE Test, Sunday, Oct. 28 - Darpa Urban Challenge

[MrRolinDHayse]

Puny humans will submit to mighty machines. The time of man has passed.

[mtiberio54]

these will save lives on the battlefield, when humans don't have to drive supply trucks and risk getting blown up by roadside IEDs. Also the could be used to work (plow, reap) large argo-biz type farms...

[LightAge2007]

yeah right I don't see that happening it takes humans to run a war, whats a robot car gonna do? honk at the enimy troops?

LOL

[HalfMooner]

In Iraq, many truck drivers are killed by roadside bombs, when simply delivering food and supplies to troops. Better they blow up a computer guidance system than a human brain.

[LightAge2007]

war is pointless any to and the computers would mess up anyway

[aversion2k]

But thats a good thing right

"Hey guys, wars off, robots are all honking and driving into walls, Guess we'll just have to work it out diplomatically"

[LightAge2007]

well at that point we would just use people again and what if a computer error made a sam launcher hit a school or an occupied building or drove into a crowd of people

I think we should just stop this robot madness before we pay out the ass

[TheDreamCavalcade]

@LightAge2007 LOL!

[LightAge2007]

Still a robot like this can only respond to simple obstacles and already predictable traffic, and you would have a great amount of difficulty getting approval for any community to use these devises so this can only be a stunt, if you are saying this will be some kind of futuristic cop car, I'd much rather be pulled over by a human being. I think robotics are a dangerous and irrational subject best keep things flesh and bone, let also hope this car is not a PC error #043 CRASH!

[sebastian2508]

sure because mostly of the fatal accidents are not human error, right ?

come on , "flesh and bones" are the reason of my fear in the streets of any city...

[LightAge2007]

you fuckin crazy

[TheDreamCavalcade]

@sebastian2508 humans though are a smart and dumb mix, if a machine is designed wrong they all crash

at least I don't need to download new software when the unexpected happens

obviously you've never had to rely on a smart machine

[tommy9922]

@TheDreamCavalcade: The important thing is to push this driverless technology as far as possible in the experimental phase. Eventually, society will decide which of the components it can safely deploy and to what extent humans can remain in the mix.

[TheDreamCavalcade]

@tommy9922 thats a way better way i think, sure computers have their uses but at one point humans must be involved, after all, the best computer of all time will always be the one we are born with