Posted on 06/04/2016 5:45:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
At the Converge tech conference in Hong Kong, Baidu’s Wang Jing says driverless cars will reduce traffic and be used as a sharing vehicle that can talk with police.
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Will all autonomous vehicles be above average?
I thought you weren’t suposed to talk with the police.
Not to worry...the car you’re in will do the talking for you.
All machines break down at some point. What will be the cost when this happens? Will they be able to anticipate potential problems in order to react?
I’ve always favored a rapid delivery rail system to major hubs with feeder lines to lesser traveled locations.
Of course driverless cars will be better!
Heck the average American can barely drive a cart around Walmart!
Wiil the car have access to your financial reserves?
To err is human, to be able to blame it on a computer is divine.
Whom will be held accountable when driverless cars cause accidents?
“Officer, I am not programmed to speed, is it possible your radar is off?”
“Officer, do the assholes I’m transporting look like they are capable of reprogramming me to speed?”
Hastings
the possibilities for car hacking and mayhem are endless
>>All machines break down at some point. What will be the cost when this happens? Will they be able to anticipate potential problems in order to react?<<
Modern vehicles do this now. And humans break down too and with greater frequency than machines.
Bring on the driverless cars. They will be better than 99.99% of all the idiots I have seen on the roads in almost all states (here in Texas and in Wisconsin are the worst).
We will know driverless autos are perfect when they know how to flip off other cars and when.
True, and this will leave humans free to text and facebook while going to/from Walmart.
You haven’t been to Oregon....where people drive UNDER the posted speed
Robo cards are reactive. The can operate in an environment where 99.9% of the other vehicles have an intelligent( hopeful semi intelligent anyway) person behind the wheel. In an all robo car environment my guess is that they will feed back loop themselves into a standstill.
Driverless cars are part of the socialist utopian wet dream. The ultimate central planning and control of all our movements. A big central computer control where and where we can go and how fast. Monitored for any deviation.
If all cars were driverless there would be no “volume” delays.The slow down in volume situations occur because almost 100 percent of drivers CANNOT merge and accelerate simultaneously.
Yes, and through their telematics, automated cars will not do some of the dumb things a human driver will attempt, such as running a red light or passing when it is unsafe to do so. Think of riding on an attraction at Disney World vs. how driving is done today. It will also vastly improve safety with older drivers and make accidents caused by drunk drivers a thing of the past.
That’s a fact. I drive 100% for my job and drivers cannot even pass a car without slowing down first.
I am amazed with the patience that Truckers have with merging traffic.
(and it is 99% the same people that will stop on a merge ramp because they don’t have any driving sense at all)
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