Anyone else reading where Ford is working on a car that sets the speed and stops drivers from speeding. Scans the roadway signals, etc. and controls torque. Driver can only override temporarily!

 

Saw it on the news this evening. Suppose to read the road signs or something.


This won't be good.


You can only hope that it is an option that is disabled...till NTSHA gets ahold of it.

 

I hope buyers force it to be done away with. The last thing I want is "Big Brother" in the driver's seat with me!

 

I will never buy one.
Scott

 

Some for of self-driving car will be a reality soon enough. This is just one way that car can regulate speeds.
I'm not worried.

 

I'm guessing it uses GPS to come up with speed, our nav system will give road speeds on most roads and it's very accurate when the speeds change.

Denny

 

There are two things I don't like about this. First, I am not one to be convinced new technology always results in "better living" and secondly, you can't turn the darn thing off.

I want the right to opt out!

Steve

 

Don't get too indignant until you this is actual available in a production automobile that's widely sold across the continent. Currently, this is in the research phase.

 

Man, I don't like it when someone even thinks the way Ford is thinking as sooner or later some safety nut will latch onto the idea like it is the solution to all our problems.

 

dozens of companies have been working on self-driving cars, and all of them need some sort of system to know how fast they should go of different roads. What's neat about this one is that it can optically read a standard road sign, instead of relying on GPS positioning and a database of speed limits. That means it should work in construction zones or other temporary speed zones.

I agree, I don't want a self-driving car, but they will be coming sometime in my lifetime. They are unlikely to be any more dangerous than the bunch of sleep-deprived or drunk idiots who seem to populate the highways around here.

 

It'll be an "option" until not enough are sold, then dropped.

 

They eliminated the manual transmission for this?

 

I see a State road crew going around putting like a bar code
sticker on the road signs. It could give this new system a lot
of information. Most of it stuff we may not want known. Seems
to be just another way for Da Man to have more control over the
masses. And yes, deleting the manual trans is just the beginning
of the end. The newest rig I have ever owned is a 1990. And I hope
I never have to buy anything newer. There is a lot of pre 90, pre
injection modes of transportation still with a lot of miles left in them
for sale. If I was givin a new SD ya sure I would drive it. But the first
or second guy with a classic old skool ride that wanted to swap could
damn well have her. Long before the first oil change or lube. Heck can you
even lube a new SD?

 

Philosophic it is the loss of more and more control in our lives. Remember setting the points or working on the old engines. Then things started becoming more and more complicated it seems always accompanied by some grand hurray for technology.

I was at the local Ford dealer getting a battery replaced under warranty and an owner was in with a brand new truck. Great looking ride. 17 times in the dealership since he bought it two months ago. They can't fix it and Ford can't tell em how to fix it.

Pretty soon no one will be able to fix anything and no one will be left to remind them when times were different. It may be progress, but it is not going to be a free lunch.

 

"Pretty soon no one will be able to fix anything and no one will be left to remind them when times were different. It may be progress, but it is not going to be a free lunch"


In 1978, I could repair my own TV. Nowadays electronics are throw a ways. I think we'll see vehicles built with throw away components.