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Mar 2, 2016 8:14PM PST
How Google Inc is betting on stranded seniors as a big market for self-driving cars

Florence Swanson has lived through every American car from the Ford Model T to the Tesla Model S. Now, at 94, she has stepped into what Google hopes will be the automotive future: self-driving vehicles.


Accident-prevention systems, already in place in many new vehicles today, are already drastically reducing the likelihood of dangerous car wrecks


“You haven’t lived until you get in one of those cars,” the Austin, Texas, resident said of her half-hour excursion. “I couldn’t believe that the car could talk. I felt completely safe.”


Seniors, people with medical conditions, drinkers, people that want to text, people that want to have a nap....All people that could use a "self-driving vehicle"

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they used to call that a "horse"
Mar 2, 2016 9:55PM PST

the drunk would get on, lean on the horse's neck for a nap, as the horse knew the way home and got him there.

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I'm thinking about their use for package delivery
Mar 3, 2016 1:39AM PST

and concerned about ones that go BOOM.[/b}

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Not sure if I trust the progammers
Mar 7, 2016 11:39AM PST

Just tried to register at a website and put in all my information and it said that my SS was invalid. Tried several times and no go. Called and she said that my information was correct. Said that the website didn't use the latest IE. Tried another browser (3) and still nothing. Asked her to put it in and she said that she couldn't go to that screen. (Guess they didn't trust their people). She didn't have a clue why it wasn't working so I asked for a supervisor and she said that they wouldn't know either.

See why I don't trust programmers - they can't even get this straight. I should know - I've been in data processing since 1967.

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IF I was sitting behind the steering wheel
Mar 7, 2016 12:03PM PST

of a self-driving car...it would take me quite a while before I felt really comfortable without my hands within grapping distance of the steering wheel.

I'm thinking Google looks at seniors as "crash test dummies"

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(NT) "grapping" distance? Is that a Canadian word?
Mar 7, 2016 12:53PM PST
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RE:"grapping" distance? Is that a Canadian word?
Mar 7, 2016 1:07PM PST

It is now.....


It's a combination of "grappling" and "grabbing"

You have my permission to work it into any conversation, no need to give me credit. Be careful, it has 2 syllables.

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I hope it was a legitimate site
Mar 7, 2016 12:09PM PST

and that an SS requirement was valid. I don't give mine out on the internet. I was once asked by my bank to verify my identity by using the phone keypad to enter my account #. I refused to do so.

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"I don't trust programmers"...LOL
Mar 7, 2016 12:52PM PST

Then how can you possibly trust the man given immunity to set up HC's server or the programmer providing 'security' for it (maybe it was the free Avast download)? According to his 'logs' nobody hacked the system.....as if some Chinese/Russian hacker PROGRAMMER couldn't HIDE that information by just using a keylogging software to use other users' passwords to get in? Duhhhhhh........

As for the car that drives itself....I wonder how trustworthy some local hospital would see them when they tell you as an outpatient coming out of anesthesia that you HAVE to have someone come and take you home or you can't be released? I hear 'liability lawsuit' in the background already.

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RE:as if some Chinese/Russian hacker PROGRAMMER
Mar 7, 2016 1:10PM PST
as if some Chinese/Russian hacker PROGRAMMER couldn't HIDE that information

An atta boy from you to Chinese/Russian hackers?

Do you think Trump will hire Chinese/Russian PROGRAMMERS?
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RE: I hear 'liability lawsuit' in the background already.
Mar 7, 2016 1:12PM PST

AAHHHH!!!! America...ya' gotta' love it.

Trumps your idol and you don't like lawsuits?

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RE: I hear 'liability lawsuit' in the background already.
Mar 7, 2016 1:28PM PST

I see a youtube video already.

Driverless car and delirious patient?...YOU can't write this stuff.

But I just did....

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This lady could have used a driverless car
Mar 7, 2016 4:26PM PST

Tree embedded in front end lol >

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Must have thought the trunk was at the front?
Mar 7, 2016 4:36PM PST

Dafydd.

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(NT) arrested for transporting firewood?
Mar 7, 2016 4:59PM PST
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then there's this.
Mar 7, 2016 5:17PM PST
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better sound on this one
Mar 8, 2016 3:58AM PST