{"id":55236,"date":"2023-06-18T20:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55236"},"modified":"2023-06-18T20:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:48:36","slug":"driverless-vehicles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55236","title":{"rendered":"What is the point about these vehicles?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I hereby offer a stern and sincere pledge, which is that I won’t belabor the point I am about to make in this brief blog post.<\/p>\n

That commercial for the pickup that drives itself is giving me the creeps. You ask: Why? Here goes.<\/p>\n

When I get into a motor vehicle, I do so intending <\/em>to take — and retain — control of it. I want to drive the vehicle. Which means I want my hands on the steering wheel and free to manipulate the transmission (if it is of a manual variety, of course).<\/p>\n

The last time I posted a piece on this subject, I was called down by those who suggest that driver-less vehicles are safer than those operated by human beings. I am not going to quibble and quarrel over that. I know next to nothing about the technology or the test results that suggest such a thing.<\/p>\n

It’s just that I cannot fathom the need to push some “auto-pilot” button and then let go of the steering wheel. What do I do with my hands? Read a book? Talk on my phone? Send text messages to hither and yon?<\/p>\n

Oh, I know! I can clap like the actors in the commercial.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sheesh …<\/p>\n

johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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I hereby offer a stern and sincere pledge, which is that I won’t belabor the point I am about to make in this brief blog post. That commercial for the pickup that drives itself is giving me the creeps. You ask: Why? Here goes. When I get into a motor vehicle, I do so intending … Continue reading What is the point about these vehicles?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10189,10214],"class_list":["post-55236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-driverless-vehicles","tag-gmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55237,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55236\/revisions\/55237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}