Winter driving brings all kinds of craziness to the roads. It’s not uncommon to see cars spinning out, sliding into intersections and being stuck in the ditch. But Thomas Goodman of Utah captured a whole new kind of winter driving absurdity on video when he saw a driver-less Buick Le Sabre making its way southbound down the I-15.
We knew autonomous driving was on the way. But we didn’t think it would happen so soon.
Apparently, a man was seen sitting in a snow bank on the side of the road looking distraught. A short time later, Goodman passed an early 90’s Buick Le Sabre with significant front end damage driving itself down the left side of the road, its horn blaring the entire time. It became clear to Goodman that the car had been involved in some sort of collision and decided to flee the scene, leaving it’s driver stranded on the side of the road.
KUTV in Utah picked up the story and is reporting that neither Goodman nor the Utah Highway Patrol know what ended up happening to the man and his phantom Buick. Check out the video of the incident below.
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I hope I’m dead and in the grave before driverless cars dominate the roadway.
I don’t even like to be in the passenger seat when my wife drives.
I hope I’m dead and in the grave before driverless cars become Mainstream.
if you wish that, then your car will survive you and drive with your ghost inside!
Even driverless, it seems to be doing better than many cars on the hi-way with drivers
That’s the point. When you have a driver making poor and ill-informed decisions without coordination, you get gridlock and idiot drivers.
Autonomous cars wouldn’t have that problem as everything would be coordinated.
And when the system fails you have a even larger mess than you would with a few idiot drivers.
I just wish people would really understand and consider how others can and will control where you go, when you go and what way you go. This technology may restrict you to what you do and when. It may change the hours you go to work. It may limit where you go on vacation.
For example if the smog is too great for CARB in California at specific times they cut the number of cars that are on the road in some ours and if you are no in you are out.
This is a very slippery slope that many have not really considered all the issues that could and will happen at some point.
Handing off control of your car to someone else may very easily leave you up to the discretion and decision of others and not you.
If you want someone else to do the driving go Greyhound.
If you do not think they can restrict where you drive just get in the Diamond lane on I5 with no passengers and just see what the government representative from CHP thinks of that. LOL!
Keep in mind these are the same people wanting the smart grid that can control how much electricity and when you get it in the future.
Just think of this too. Radio and TV used to be free just as the number of miles you drive. This too may change as they are no longer getting all the gas tax as they used to with the higher MPG and EV cars.
Your broadcast examples (tv and radio) would have worked, if anyone still used antennas to pick up signals anymore.
Both of them have been privitized and digital for years now. That, and I don’t know anyone under the age of 30 who watches TV anymore. They get the same visual media from YT or stream from dedicated sources. The TV as a stand-alone box picking up local signals is dead.
As for those 30 years olds, it’s hard to make driving appealing to them when all the roads are congested and full of idiot drivers. They don’t see cars the same way Gen X’ers and Boomers did, and therefore have less interest in driving. When driving is less of an expensive chore for them, they’ll have reason to drive.
But first, you have to get them to leave the city. Lots of Gen Y don’t have cars because they don’t need them; they live within a city.
I said long ago that eventually GM will have to become less of a car company and more of a transportation company. If Gen Y doesn’t force the industrys’ hand, Gen Z will.
Raymond… Lol.
Well… least it will be a new Buick.