Everybody ready for self-driving cars? Well....

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Remember that Brave New World of self-driving cars, ones that will put you in the passenger seat to relax while Google drives and simultaneously inserts an anal probe to steal extract the remaining personal information about you it hasn't already stolen doesn't already have?

Like most things offered by Google, it's mostly horseshit wrapped in gold foil.  The Google Self-Driving Car would "fail a driver's license test before it ever got out of the parking lot" according to this linked article:

http://gizmodo.com/6-simple-things-googles-self-driving-car-still-cant-han-1628040470

Quick summary of the tasks that are beyond the ken of Google's technological wonder:

1) Can only be used in sunny, temperate weather

2) Can't recognize and avoid potholes (or sinkholes)

3) Can't navigate without an incredibly detailed survey of the roads to be traveled ahead of time, and "a laughably tiny number of roads in the U.S. have been Googlified for autonomous car use"

4) Can't recognize road construction (vroom vroom thud thud shriek shriek lawsuit); an unplanned four way stop (like if the traffic signals are down) will likely turn it into a brick

5) Has almost no capability to detect pedestrians (see: vroom vroom thud thud shriek shriek lawsuit), not to mention cops trying to divert traffic around an accident

6) Might permit more capacity on freeways and roadways due to more efficient packing, but where do you park, say, twice as many cars?

7) For all the hoopla about how much safer they will make the roads, even in a perfect scenario they are SIXTY times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident than a passenger on a bus

On the plus side, they could probably be used effectively on golf courses, eliminating those faggoty Segways.