Remember that Shiggy Challenge, It’s a Driverless Car Challenge Too

Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider

Generally, not a good idea to leap out of a moving car, even a driverless one

I’m hoping that you have not tried to do the so-called Shiggy Challenge (it was quite a craze or fad last year). If you haven’t done it, I further hope that my telling you about it does not somehow spark you to go ahead and try doing it.

Here’s the deal.

The Shiggy Challenge involved getting out of a moving car, leaving the driver’s seat vacant, and doing a dance while nearby to the continually moving forward car, and video record your dancing (you are also moving forward at the same pace as the moving car), and then jump back into the car to continue driving it.

If you ponder this for a moment, I trust that you instantly recognize the danger of this and (if I might say) the stupidity of it (or does that make me appear overly harsh?).

As you might guess, some people hurt themselves while trying to jump out of the moving car, spraining an ankle, hurting a knee, banging their legs on the door, etc. Likewise, they had gotten hurt while trying to jump back into the moving car (collided with the steering wheel or the seat arm, etc.).

There are some people that while dancing outside the moving car became preoccupied and didn’t notice that their moving car was heading toward…