Driverless Cars by January

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Then they'll be going very slowly everywhere. And the price of the robot cars never having an accident will be 10mph traffic.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

markg wrote:

Then they'll be going very slowly everywhere. And the price of the robot cars never having an accident will be 10mph traffic.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

This video shows some good behind the scenes stuff of a couple of complex scenarios and how the Google car manages them:

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Yeah I've seen all the Google advertainment pieces. I'm not saying that they won't work, I'm saying that they will have different types of accidents but much fewer of them and be safer overall. They'll probably end up with kill switches on the outside too, like buses.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 18:27

markg wrote:

Then they'll be going very slowly everywhere. And the price of the robot cars never having an accident will be 10mph traffic.

I doubt that will be a problem. A modern car can pull up from thirty mph in less than 9m (with an effective thinking time of zero meters, of course) and having to stop might not be the only option - it might be able to swerve to avoid a problem.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 22:30

The adaptive cruise control on my car. Does this to a point.

I will just see this as an extension to this.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 23:06

My company doesn't do car insurance, but it does do a fucking lot of liability insurance. So please continue to post any interesting links about these cars, as I'm going to have to do a paper to the board about it at some point.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

http://on.wsj.com/1k9VQmh

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 23:50

Other is tugging, right?

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:59

Sleep is a bit extreme isn't it? I don't think I'd be able to nod off leaving my driving in the hands of my car. Not until the cars are well established anyway.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:05

TheVision wrote:

Sleep is a bit extreme isn't it? I don't think I'd be able to nod off leaving my driving in the hands of my car. Not until the cars are well established anyway.

I do in aeroplance, trains, taxis and other cars.

But, yeah, it will be a bit weird to begin with. And which fucknuts wrote "work" down, eh? Same fucknuts that write "I think this product is correctly priced" on surveys, rather than "make it a fiver, love".

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:06

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

Sleep is a bit extreme isn't it? I don't think I'd be able to nod off leaving my driving in the hands of my car. Not until the cars are well established anyway.

I do in aeroplance, trains, taxis and other cars.

Yes but someone else is in control.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

KovacsC wrote:

Yes but someone else is in control.

Someone else who might lose concentration, fall asleep, glance at their cell phone, not notice a traffic light change to red, ...

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:21

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Yes but someone else is in control.

Someone else who might lose concentration, fall asleep, glance at their cell phone, not notice a traffic light change to red, ...

True, but until every car is automatic, we will still have those issues.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

KovacsC wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Yes but someone else is in control.

Someone else who might lose concentration, fall asleep, glance at their cell phone, not notice a traffic light change to red, ...

True, but until every car is automatic, we will still have those issues.

Even when automatic cars are already demonstrably better at handling the variables of other human drivers on the road, than human drivers are?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:07

Trooper wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Yes but someone else is in control.

Someone else who might lose concentration, fall asleep, glance at their cell phone, not notice a traffic light change to red, ...

True, but until every car is automatic, we will still have those issues.

Even when automatic cars are already demonstrably better at handling the variables of other human drivers on the road, than human drivers are?

I would get one, as I do a lot of miles.

myp · **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2018 11:06

This story doesn't get any better.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... rve-report

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Lonewolves wrote:

This story doesn't get any better.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... rve-report

I wonder if it'd programmed to avoid white privilege pedestrians, but not those of colour?

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6515

Entirely possible

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