Driverless cars would sure help a guy out for galavanting the countryside and having a few wobbly pops !!!!! lol

 

Maybe we should call self driving vehicles the Asian solution

 

The government is trying to make our lives as easy as it can get!

 

Well this thread was posted in 2015 and here we are 6 years later and it still hasn't come to fruition. We are getting closer though with automatic parallel parking and adaptive cruise control on some models.

 

I believe deep in my soul we could eliminate soooooooooooo many traffic accident issues simply by cell phone signal jamming capability built into ALL vehicles while the vehicle is in motion. Stop the distracted driving and we MIGHT have slightly more attentive drivers---maybe?

 

i have been saying that for 15 years now.
and no need for jammers to be built into cars, a motion sensor in the phone that shuts the signal off over 3 mph will work just fine.
although it maybe should be one mph, so people will stop walking into things while on the phone.

 

MN has moved distracted driving to the top of the list for accidents now that enforcement has slowed down the DWIs. Besides cell phones, they could make the infotainent stuff a lot less complex.

They also claim enforcement as the main reason for a lot of the downward trends in accidents. I tend to agree. I am not a big fan of the ADAS stuff (advanced driver assistance systems).

As far as the self drivers, they keep bragging, but I'm not sure how well they're progressing. Carbon based life forms have a lot of problems, but I'm pretty sure that we get the big picture more accurately. The NHTSA says that vehicle deaths are one per 100 million miles traveled (it might even be 200 million, I forget). Seems like a pretty high bar.

hj

 

That's another good idea however at some point an "app" would be available to disable that feature. That wouldn't address the infotainment systems capable of displaying video etc in the front seat. Reducing signals for anything other than GPS whether from a "smart phone" or the vehicle itself I think would work best.