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Within the last few years the police have had a big crack down on drink driving, however would it not be safer to simply have robots controling our cars as this would eliminate all problems related to human error. Its be proven that planes are the safest mode of transport and planes are now solely flown using computer, even take off and landing. So many be its time computer controlled our other methods of transport?

[cvs_s28]

not all functions are computer controlled, then are only modified and submitted as a diferent command, a plane wouldnt fly without a pilot.

an article in top gear magazine has also addressed this problem, if robots controlled cars, planes, etc. what would happen if they broke, what would happen to them if lightning hit them?

If the car crashes into another, whos to blame? how can you take legal action against a robot?

More importantly, wouldn't it be easier for assasins to kill people if cars are robot controlled, you could hack into them (by putting a chip into them or through a wireles connection) and control them to collide into buildings, can we take that risk?

Also if the sat nav went down, what will it do? Surely it would stop and ask directions? or would it keep going off a cliff?

If a taxi was controlled by a robot, couldn't you get it to go into building's? or people? How would you get it to take you where you want to go?

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For the time being, i am not surggesting that computers should replace humans, humans of course need to monitor the computers work, which is what pilots do in a plane.

what if they broke? Today almost every car is controled through or monitored by a CPU and these have come to be trusted and they rarly break and normally when they do break the car will usually not start in the first place.

The legalities however are difficult, i agree with you, which is why i am not surgesting robots competly replace humans. But there will be a time when most likely they will.

Even in todays world there is nothing stopping an anybody wirelessly controlling a car, the equipment and technology is readily avalible however to my knowledge there are no known cases yet of assination in this way. so surly if you put a robot or advanced CPU they could overide the assin, and make it that it was tampered with then the car would not start and would inform the police.

If the sat-went down then all cars would stop, there would be no accidents as all cars would be effected, and with all technology there is nothing stopping us putting an override fuction in and using it when nessesarry.

finally with the taxi issue, if the GPS systems are advanced enough i dont see how the taxi would drive into a building? It would drive into people as there would be technology to prevent this which will be thousands of times quicker at process changes than the humans reaction time. Telling it where to go again can be controlled by voice, the latest 'tom tom' car navs have this built in as a feature or you could simply have a computer in the car which you enter you destination.

However a negative with robots controlling cars is what it would do to the economy, yes it would drive sales in cars but it would also but many people out of work. there would be no need for taxi driver, pilots etc what would they do.?

[cvs_s28]

not only would there be a lost of jobs, but the price to maintain, and fix these many machines would increase. the economy would hugely crash.

also it is not a good idea to heavily rely on robots, they make life easier, but as obesity increases, is it a good idea to have this many robots helping us?

also if a terroist got on a plane, how would a robot handle the situation? would it know if it was a terroist?

[cvs_s30]

Or would the prices get cheaper as robots could repair robots? Also i do not feel that the economy would crash, for a while it would be a struggle (much like is it now) but i think that the economy would evolve to compensate, eg the company owner would get taxed for the more robts they have and therefore there economy would find other means of stabling out.

Health issues is also interesting, I agree with you, however could we not use robots to control people diets, in way they could help prevent obesity however this could then restrict free will.

With regards to a terrorist, i think that would be safer, as there would be no way the they could gain control of the plane. But again of course humans will always be needed and they could deel with the situation.

Also robots do not that emotions or judgment which in a way is both a postive and a negative aspect when it comes to the safty of humans.