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Drunk Driving Driverless Cars, When The AI Gets Tipsy
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
During Memorial Day weekend, drunk drivers come out in droves. I was on-the-road after attending a beach BBQ, and saw on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) a car that was weaving back-and-forth across the lanes of traffic ahead of me. The driver was also sporadically speeding up and then slowing down, in addition to the scary weaving actions.
Though I could not see the actual driver, their driving behavior was a kind of clue or tell that they were likely drunk or generally DUI (there could be other reasons for such driving behavior, such as the person having a seizure, or fighting a bee that’s come into their car, etc., but more likely they are “lit” as they say).
I opted to remain a sizable distance behind the car. Meanwhile, other cars around me weren’t willing to stay behind the weaving car and decided to drive past the suspicious driver. As they did so, the madcap driver nearly veered over into them. It was a very dangerous situation that was playing out at speeds of 40 to 65 miles per hour.
Statistics in the United States suggest that about 30 people die in car crashes in the U.S. each day due to drunk drivers. Sometimes it is reported as an on-the-average as there being a drunk driver death every hour. Sad. Horrific.
