Would you trust a computerised driver

[herb]

Originally Posted by turbonutter69

Alot of the new Boeing aircraft have an auto pilot to land.
All i'm saying is if they can safely land a huge jumbo jet with computers then i'm sure they can make a car drive itself safely.

again volume of traffic is the major contributor between cars and air craft! when considering near misses.
e.g. a near miss for a plane is 200ft a near miss for a car is 1m/mm's
on a plane i have never seen another plane in the sky (longest flight i have took is 5 hrs)
you cant go for a 5 hr drive (no matter what time you drive!) without seeing another vehicle on the road!!!!
so until they come up with a computer with AI there is no way a car could drive itself safely (even when this does happen i still wouldn't trust it!!)

[HDi fun]

I'm with TN here and I think your point is identical to both. There's less to hit in an aircraft than there is on the ground. ATC is good at keeping planes away from each other.

There's no such mechanism for cars.