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Government
Obama pledges nearly $4 billion for self-driving cars
2016-01-15
[THEHILL] President B.O. is calling for politicians to spend $4 billion on the development of self-driving cars.
It's probably a dumb question, but how's that a federal govt responsibility?
The B.O. regime said Thursday the money would be used "to accelerate the development and adoption of safe vehicle automation through real-world pilot projects."
Just like we did electric cars...
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a speech at the North American International Auto Show in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
 that automated cars on U.S. roads more quickly would pay dividends in safety improvements.

"We know that 80 percent of car accidents are due to human error. So we ask ourselves, what happens if human error was eliminated?" Foxx said.

"If the technology meets its promise, my back of the envelope math tells me that more than 25,000 lives would have been saved in 2015 alone," he continued. "That is powerful possibility, and that is not only worth pursuing, it is worth working aggressively to determine whether or not it is true."
Posted by:Fred

#14  
Posted by: Lampedusa Creretch3679   2016-01-15 17:57  

#13  Govmint Motors recently announced research into self driving vehicles. Another payoff to the unions.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2016-01-15 17:19  

#12  Its a payoff to Google for all of the free data mining they did for the One during the last presidential election and all of that free data on computer use they give to the Feds.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2016-01-15 16:27  

#11  Can a self-driving Uber tell if their is a passenger in the car vs a box of drugs being delivered?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-01-15 14:33  

#10  Bet a self-driving car will eventually be networked for traffic info and can download location information and report folks going into certain neighborhoods when the POlice ask.

Folks pushed back at the idea of a black box in cars but they'll slip that in through the self-driving back door.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-01-15 14:32  

#9  No thanks. I've seen "I Robot".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2016-01-15 14:20  

#8  I wish the 0.1% was almost rounding error. If the Republicans get into office and actually dig into what our current debt is, our "rounding error" is going to be more like 50% I have a feeling.
Posted by: gorb   2016-01-15 13:07  

#7  Meh. It's only 0.1% of the federal budget. Almost a rounding error. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2016-01-15 12:46  

#6  That's four billion (with a "B") dollars worth of 100 percent pure pork lard. No wonder our government has a $20 trillion dollar debt. And with Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan running Congress Obummer won't have any trouble getting it.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-01-15 12:07  

#5  If I remember right there was a pilot program for this,...it was called 'The Bus' with a slogan: "Leave the driving to Us".
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-01-15 08:58  

#4  Pushing the envelope in the development of self delivering car bombs...
Posted by: ed in texas   2016-01-15 08:25  

#3  Two points:
1) They just put out a study about over-reliance on automation in flying a plane and the loss of ability of pilots when the SHTF.
2) Where's the graft in that? Oh yeah that's where.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-01-15 07:56  

#2  The prez can ask. Congress decides if money is appropriated, or not.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-01-15 06:56  

#1  "We know that 80 percent of car accidents are due to human error. So we ask ourselves, what happens if human error was eliminated?" Foxx said.

According to the people who make up the narrative on unemployment figures, we would reduce human error to 0%, and therefore the problem would be solved.
Posted by: gorb   2016-01-15 01:17  

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