"mazda616" (mazda616)
01/08/2016 at 10:49 • Filed to: Autonomous Cars
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Kentucky (the state I live in and have lived in since I entered this world 26 years ago) was the number one least trusting state when it comes to autonomous cars. I can see why.
A lot of people are quick to say backwoods stuck-in-their-ways hillbillies don’t trust “them there new-fangled robot cars.” But, it is really not that way.
Autonomous cars. With Kentucky roads and landscape, they’ll get confused. Plain and simple. It will take a lot (and I mean a lot) of trial and error before they’re anywhere close to useful. We have freak weather - tornadoes and snow the same day at times. Flash flooding. Many desolate country roads with herds of deer. And, a wide spread of rural areas that even Google Maps doesn’t understand. Metropolitan areas are prime adopters of self-driving cars. But, Kentucky has one big city and that is Louisville. The next most populated area would be Lexington, and even it is tiny compared to a lot of other cities around the country. Outside of that, it’s very rural - but also not flat and barren like Kansas or Oklahoma. We have mountains in the east and dense forests in the central and western part of the state. Driving here is a challenge, and I think that’s why we in general are wary of having a car drive for us.
How about you? Where’d your state rank? Why do you think it fell along the lines it did?
Nibby
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 10:53 |
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Party-vi
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 10:54 |
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Maryland is 5th trusting-est state, which would be wonderful because fucking nobody here knows how to drive, and every day I think a blind robot would do a better job commuting than most people I see behind the wheel.
Ash78, voting early and often
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 10:58 |
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#4 here in AL.
It’s easy to pick on socio-political stereotypes, but I really think pessimism and population density are at work — I wouldn’t “trust” autonomous cars if I didn’t think they’d be practical for me. If I commuted a lot on rural 2-lane roads with lots of topography and no easy “urban grid” system, I’d be further skeptical.
What would be telling would be to see the data by county — I suspect, as with most stats, that the 10-15 largest MSAs are driving most of the numbers. People in large cities who hate driving are also the ones most likely to be hopeful for something to take away the drudgery.
Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 11:03 |
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IL here, looks like we are pretty trusting. Well, most of us anyway.
Nibbles
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 11:08 |
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#1 all the way! Kinda surprised it’s Colorado but in a way I’m not. Plenty of xenophobes here and there’s a running joke that goes along the lines of something something snow something ditch something something California plates
Everyone here seems to be sick and tired of the immigration to the Front Range. Honestly it has had an incredibly negative impact on the roads. Denver’s infrastructure wasn’t keeping up with the old population, much less the recent influx. Public transportation is another source of running jokes ( RTD: Reason to Drive ) and the area is getting populated quicker than it can recover
I welcome our new robit driver overlords but am worried that our shitty roads (many of which lack striping any more, they’re so worn out) and large amounts of snowfall may cause some issues
Matt Nichelson
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 11:09 |
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I’m actually surprised Mississippi is only the 5th least trusting. I figured we would have been higher than that. It doesn’t surprise me that the top 5 are all considered southern states though. I think some of it is not so much that the people aren’t trusting, it’s that they dislike and are scared of big changes to the norm. People are ‘set in their ways’ as it’s called and don’t like a huge buck in the trend.
Justin Hughes
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 11:11 |
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Not listed by number, and I can’t find a listing of all states, but Massachusetts is quite green, and likely just outside the top 5 most trusting states. Given our well deserved reputation for Masshole drivers, plus the colossal mess of traffic that is the entire state east of I-495 (where most of the population also lives), I understand how and why this is.
As I commented on the FP, personally I trust autonomous cars as far as I can throw them. But that’s just me. And I’m quite willing to change my opinion once the technology advances some more, and when there are more autonomous, therefore predictable, cars on the road. My fear is how autonomous cars will [not] handle the sheer mayhem of driving in the Boston area with chaotic evil human drivers.
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> mazda616
01/08/2016 at 16:46 |
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Oregon. We love our granola but it can’t be too crunchy.