Look no hands!

[Old Greg]

You just need a little workstation in the car and then you can do billable work while commuting.

[Mich the Tester]

You just need a little workstation in the car and then you can do billable work while commuting.

No thanks; I really prefer to drive, fart to my heart's content, sing very badly to my choice of music and just have the time to myself. I don't want the obligations that it will bring when not even the car's a work free zone.

In fact, I don't even like all the electronic gizmos in modern cars; I have a 20 year old Daimler that has more than adequate electronic assistance and I'd sooner buy an even older car than a newer one.

This looks about right but needs some work doing on it;

Humber Snipe - Overzicht - Auto Trader

[Old Greg]

No thanks; I really prefer to drive, fart to my heart's content, sing very badly to my choice of music and just have the time to myself. I don't want the obligations that it will bring when not even the car's a work free zone.

In fact, I don't even like all the electronic gizmos in modern cars; I have a 20 year old Daimler that has more than adequate electronic assistance and I'd sooner buy an even older car than a newer one.

This looks about right but needs some work doing on it;

Humber Snipe - Overzicht - Auto Trader

I'll spend less time at work and more time at home.

[Sysman]

Here's why I don't want a driverless car;

... is the Government really expecting us to embrace the rented driverless pod? Why would we? So we can free up time to answer yet more emails, take yet more conference calls? The car is one of the few work-free sanctuaries left, now planes and the Tube have introduced Wi-Fi, damn them. Show me an exhausted businessman or mother, and I’ll show you someone all too happy to sit in a traffic jam on their own, singing at the top of their voice, daydreaming or listening to the Shipping Forecast.

In high-octane Britain, the driverless car is a*non-starter - Telegraph

Or there's this scenario:

Punter: White Horse Inn please
Car: May I suggest an alternative? The Dead Duck has half price drinks tonight and does a wonderful veggie burger
Punter: No I want to go to the White Horse, have a pint of their finest bitter with steak pie and chips
Car: Steak Sir? Can I recommended Harry's Diner? As much as you can eat and a live band too.
Punter: No, I want a quiet pint and some grub with my mates.
Car: Wouldn't you prefer to see an action movie?

...

Punter leaps out of car and decides to walk.

Besides, I'm a tester; I've spent the last 15 years delving into faults in software, and despite all the predictions of the last 15 years of 'right first time', 'self testing software', '4GL will make testing obsolete' and 'continous delivery means bugs are fixed before they're found', it's probably easier than ever to make a complex system break and my skills are still in demand; a complex system is what you will get when you have 3 or more self driving cars and a few cars with drivers. It's not all that difficult to make a correctly functioning unit in a complex system; it's very difficult to predict how the whole system will behave further down the line in response to one unexpected occurrence in one unit.

2014 Car Hackers Handbook

[EternalOptimist]

my scenario

'hey car. i'm bladdered. take me to Goodwin sands'
'who do you think I am. chitty chitty bang bang ?'

[SantaClaus]

Driver-less cars are a great idea.

I look forward to getting one. Just think you'll be able to get it to drop you off at the pub, restaurant or wherever and get it to pick you up when you want to go home.

Need to run the kids to their clubs? Nah, just stick 'em in the car and off they go.

Fetching the ageing parents? Send it to pick them up.

Cars are the biggest killers of men aged 17 - 24 in the UK. No more roadside shrines.

And why would you need a car anyway? You could just call one up on demand from your smartphone, use it to take you where you need to be and send it off. Personal chauffeur for everyone. iTaxi. iCar.

Of course there will be fatal accidents. But never mind there were 1,754 People Killed on the UK's roads in 2012. And 20,000 serious injuries. If any other activity killed 5 people a day .... every day .... every year .... there would be uproar and "Something Must Be Done".


I want a driver-less car. I want a flying driver-less car. Living in the future is great.

You've just given me an excellent idea for the mother in law.

[CloudWalker]

If a Driver less car has an accident , who's to blame

[Mich the Tester]

If a Driver less car has an accident , who's to blame

The testers

[tomtomagain]

If a Driver less car has an accident , who's to blame

Why should there be "blame" if there is an accident?

If you worry about the litigation then nothing would ever have been invented and we'd all still be living in caves.

[Mich the Tester]

Why should there be "blame" if there is an accident?

It's not really about the 'blame', but about who picks up the cost when somebody is crippled for life and unable to work after an accident involving a driverless car.