Someday 'talking cars' may save lives

While safety is always a serious matter, humans are getting dumber and dumber so we'll have to rely on machines to protect us from ourselves.

And when the link goes down, everyone either stops moving or crashes!

Drivers here are already reduced to being steering wheel attendants, unable to park or manoeuvre without electronic assistance, unable to drive anywhere without GPS and car navi systems...

As TumbleDry says, "dumber and dumber..."

Although I am all for increased safety in cars such as side airbags and stability control, some of this pre-crash technology worries me. Subaru's eyesight is one of them. They even having a commercial with a guy from Tokio in the car saying "wow, my foot's off the pedal and the car is still moving, and will stop automatically.". Now that's great I suppose if used properly, but for many people I think that translates as "I no longer need to be as attentive to the road as I used to be, because the car will do everything for me".

dimwits not talking on phones in cars could save lives right now

Define "real time". On the road there's often a millisecond difference between having an accident or not. If these wifi devices talk to each other like they're doing it now, we're talking time lags measured in seconds. GPS would have to be much more precise than it is now, too. It would have to have an error margin within a few inches, not a few yards.

,,,yeah....for example, "Hey stupid old lady on the bike, I am going to run the stop sign....get your butt in gear!!!!"

well this could Help.i know what your saying IF people were More cautious we wouldn't need these. But its NOT a "new concept" Knight Rider. (yeah but that was a tv show get real) yeah i know but people thought video conversation in the Jetsons was funny & Not reality either. cellphones are a major issue i see Many (sorry) mainly women on their cellphone while driving

Bill Gates' intrusive computer society spreading to cars now? My PC regularly makes irritating predictive decisions for me. I can remember air crashes caused by computer override and the inability of the human interface to sort out the problem in time. We are still wondering whether some brake failures might not be caused by wireless systems.

How many new crashes will be caused by miscalculations or misfunctions in the coming system? How much of the exchanging information be picked up and read by satellites, including relevant speeds and limits, etc? So much possibility for misuse and control hidden behind the scenes here.

if you don't qualify for a driver's license, maybe they should be revoked instead. Much cheaper.

The solution is to stop driving. Support local transit, and live locally so you're not concentrating on a blank burnt out strip mall every 12 seconds. The design is the fail, and adding a computer to the mix ensures no change in the underlying abyss. Ouch.

Glad I don't drive.

There's no reason for increased volume. I'm scanning your interrogatives quite satisfactorily. I'm the voice of the Knight Industries Two Thousand's microprocessor. K-I-T-T for easy reference, KITT if you prefer.

K.A.R.R.: I am the Knight Automated Roving Robot, K.A.R.R. if you prefer; I am the prototype of the car of the future. K.A.R.R.: I am the prototype of the car of the future. What you saw was merely an inferior production line model, a pale copy of the original. K.A.R.R.: If I am destroyed... so shall you be!