Who wants to be the first to test the self-driving motorcycle?

Magnetic field changes, voltage changes, sensors deteriorate, mechanical break down and worn out, computer craps out. Believe me, I am in this field and just to maintain and fixing lacked of maintenance vehicles is hard enough already. Just maybe ALL future car owners take good care of their cars seriously I would think there is a chance but until then "not a chance". Don't compare with airplane. It's totally different, one it's in the sky, two the maintenance and safety regulations of those are followed closely. My beef is if you are that lazy or incompetent to drive then it's time to look for alternative way of transportation such Bus, limousine with chauffeur, mass transit system. There are people who should not own any due monetary matter, ignorant people, always screwing up thing people. Remember we can not fix all stupid and ignorant people. It's a dream to have a machine that can out perform human, until we all have the same common goal and get along without conflict then "maybe". My present thought "Not a chance" just a sale pitch to safe lives but embrace killing from wars. Just a thought.

You didn't even mention the Google prototype car that has driven "driver's hands free" from San Francisco to LA --with the car in charge of all traffic changes and conditions.  That would be ideal for elderly drivers with failing eye sight !! 

Driverless vehicles? Something new?  I'd almost swear I see some of them almost everyday by the way some people mindlessly point and shoot their vehicles down the road.  Cool idea, but Ford's bad ideas strike again?

 

Nothing in the way but customer acceptance according to Ford?  Wanna bet?  With all of the vehicle recalls now days with Ford included, is proof enough that current vehicle design or production in far from ready or perfect and that most people are not really willing to completely risk or trust their lives to some mindless electronic robotic response system that could be sometimes somewhat less than perfect? 

 

Once, in some cases, is way more than enough.  Besides, if the engineers can't get the things that are normally in our vehicles now operating correctly, what makes anyone think they get that new automatic driver system anymore right?  Cruise control is one thing, autopilot in land driven motor vehicles is another.

 

Maybe the cost is prohibitive?  What kind of cost?  Which one?  Monetary, bodily injury or other costs?  The sky is the limit?   I can almost see it now, mandatory auto manufacturer recalls 200,000 vehicles due to to faulty robotic response system.  Thousands die.   Manufacturer liabilities would likely go through the roof?  Automatically driven cars would be far less well received than Ford's Edsel, Taurus or Pinto?  Very likely the automatic vehicle is just another engineering dream?  Or,  more likely, more of a nightmare?  Then, on top of that, just start thinking about how well the auto insurance industry would receive them?  Just another lame excuse to raise rates again?  I can think of more negatives too.  But, that's more than enough to cause concern isn't it?  So, that' its nothing but customers in the way according to Ford's chief engineering supervisor?  To me, that's way more than enough trouble and reasons of why not to produce the vehicle. He needs another position at Ford.  A bit further down the ladder, like night janitor?  The worst thing is, it's not just Ford engineers that are off kilter.