Driver Inattention: Trucker Kills LEO

[No Joy]

Porn addict truck driver surfing Facebook for risqué photos plows into police cars, killing a LEO. RIP

Dashboard video of trucker who crashed into police cars

Video Captures Trucker Barreling Into a Police Cruiser and Killing a Cop — What He Was Reportedly Ogling On His Phone at the Time Is Startling
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ogling-on-his-phone-at-the-time-is-startling/

A truck driver was looking at his cell phone — specifically at Facebook “photographs of several women in provocative positions, wearing little clothing” — when he plowed into three police cruisers and two fire trucks, killing one officer, records show.

Espinoza was also looking at Facebook photographs “of a woman in a low cut dress” and a man “smoking something” around the time of impact, according to records; on other occasions Espinoza used his phone to look at female escort web pages, porn sites and other web pages when logged in as driving, investigators said.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Last I checked, it is not only normal to have sexual desires, but the existence of the human race exists because of those desires, not despite it.

If sexual desires, like eating or sleeping, are kept unsatisfied for too long then people end up doing stupid or dangerous things.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Technology breaks. That is the major impediment to autonomous vehicles. Just ask my antilock brakes which just yesterday left a 40 foot patch of rubber.
No thank you.

Plenty of progress is being made on autonomous vehicles (and robots) since DARPA has been running its Grand Challenges:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

DARPA Robotics Trials (http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/) are scheduled for December 20 and 21 at the Homestead Speedway in Florida. The trials will be open to the public.