Comments on: At “least three persons shall be employed to drive” each vehicle

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:17:48 +0000

I wonder if a licensed driver be required in the car at all? Will someday parents be able to put their kids in the car (maybe at least a teenager) and send them to dance practice or school? Will I be able to have one drink too many and allow the car to drive me home? Will I be able to sleep while in the car?

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:17:12 +0000

When I was a teenager in Vermont, it was claimed that a law still on the books but unenforced required every car to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag in daytime and a lantern at night. The purpose was to avoid frightening horses.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:59:15 +0000

Favorable regulation of driverless cars will come quickly if Google and others team up with vote-rich organizations for the elderly, like AARP. This would end the need for fraught arguments about taking away Grandma’s car keys.

If Grandma becomes too befuddled to tell the car where to take her, the car can wait patiently in a safe place until her intentions are clear, call a contact (next of kin?) for a command, or take her to a default location, eg home.

Driverless car technology could also eliminate problems with repeat-offender drunk drivers.