Ford smart car locks your phone when ...

[Mohawk70]

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[IdeasVacuum]

... Not sure about the logic - wouldn't somebody who was in an accident (or just became very ill) fit their criteria? In other words, the car could switch the phone off just when you need it most?

[luis]

All these things that does evaluations based on some stupid parameter decided by someone sit at a table are not for me.
Like those cars who activates brakes when you are about to impact something, or anything like that.
I want to be able to hit something (or someone) with my car if I want to, and certainly I want to use the phone when I want to.
Probably the audience of these "features" should not have a driver license in the first place.
This tendency is disturbing, and reminds me the the jailbraking phenomena on Apple's device. I'll have to do that on my next car ?

A car must do the car. A gun must do the gun. A knife must do the knife.

[Danilo]

Like those cars who activates brakes when you are about to impact something, or anything like that.

Future cars will drive autonomous, without human error.

A car must do the car.

Cars are for transportation, "car" does not mean there has to be a human driver.

• Autonomous car
• Video: Google Self-Driving Car Test
• Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car
• Google tests cars that drive themselves
• Driverless car: Google awarded US patent for technology

It is already there. They got the license to let the cars drive autonomous in Nevada, other states and the whole world will follow within years.

It is not science fiction anymore, it is reality. It is happening NOW. How you think about cars will change dramatically within the next 30 years.
Driving cars by humans will be good old memories in 50 years, you can tell your grandchildren about it.

[TI-994A]

Future cars will drive autonomous, without human error.

There'll be more crashes if these cars are driven by Windows!

[Primoz128]

No kidding...

[Mohawk70]

@IdeasVacuum &@luis - the same exact thoughts ran through my mind whren I reasd the article too !

[Nituvious]

I want to be able to hit something (or someone) with my car if I want to,

Not gonna lie, I laughed a bit when I read this.

[DarkDragon]

It is not science fiction anymore, it is reality. It is happening NOW. How you think about cars will change dramatically within the next 30 years.
Driving cars by humans will be good old memories in 50 years, you can tell your grandchildren about it.

I'm really happy about this. People don't understand they're not built for driving cars. An accident with a car may hurt hundreds of people, a comparable accident with a knife hurts one. That's just inacceptable.

[Zach]

But what if you have an accident with a knife while in the car?

[MachineCode]

Future cars will drive autonomous, without human error.

But errors are not always caused by other human drivers. A car cannot avoid a crash from someone suddenly darting across the road. It'll still hit the person, or swerve to avoid and hit another car. Or something else will occur that a car cannot comprehend or be prepared for. That's the problem: these self-driving cars are only programmed for optimal conditions, and not for chaotic, random events. A drive on the road is NEVER predictable.

Driving cars by humans will be good old memories in 50 years, you can tell your grandchildren about it.

Good one.

[skywalk]

We may have to wait to tell our great great grandchildren

The amount of infrastructure changes to make this feasible on EVERY road is quite daunting.
Though it is a desirable goal and would in turn spark many economies.

The danger is of course VIRUSES

Think of all the world's airports. Even they are not driven fully automatically and the amount of vehicles is tiny in comparison.

[jassing]

[quote="luis"I want to be able to hit something (or someone) with my car if I want to, and certainly I want to use the phone when I want to.[/quote]

I'm with you -- I was in a prius as the driver. My phone rang and I handed to the passenger to answer it. They did; and the result was we needed to go some place different than our original destination. Not being "from the area" we were at, I said "Enter the new address in the GPS" (so we could get the right directions) -- Nope!!! We had to pull over and come to a complete stop to enter a new address...

If you have passenger, why can't they enter a new address? The car knew the passenger was in there by evidence of the note about the passenger side air bag being turned on....

I got rid of a newer bmw in favour of a truck that lets me roll up the window, start (or stop) the car when I want.... The bmw would roll up the windows if we "forgot to", even if someone was still in the car when we stopped. give me simple cars that do car things only.

[MachineCode]

We had to pull over and come to a complete stop to enter a new address

A perfect example of why cars shouldn't control the person. The person should control the car.

[tj1010]

A better solution is just making major fines for using cellphones while driving, but the people using the cellphones while driving vote and it's a politicians goal to stay in on government revenue streams by being an elected politician...

EDIT: Kind of like how they make the most idiotic laws for drunk driving to keep voting advocates happy while not making everyone else inconvenienced&mad... Instead of just making effective laws(like expensive fines) that make even the biggest addict fear driving under any substance. If a DWI costs you at least 5 figures on the first offense alone, there wouldn't even be a statistic...

EDIT TWO: Another reality of society that reminds me of a quote by Jello Biafra: "Give me convenience or give me death."