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Driverless Autonomous Cars Will Be on U.S. Roads in the Next 2 Months
Futurism ^ | June 9, 2017 | Dom Galeon

Posted on 06/11/2017 7:06:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shit!!!!


21 posted on 06/11/2017 7:30:01 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: jonascord

Nobody, at best that’s negligent homicide. Same as if an elevator freaks out.


22 posted on 06/11/2017 7:30:24 PM PDT by discostu (You are what you is, and that's all it is, you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.)
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To: marktwain

I see millions of unemployed people who will not have other jobs available to them.


23 posted on 06/11/2017 7:30:34 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: marktwain

Interesting. As commuting time will be decreased, will this cause people to move closer to the inner cities or further away?


24 posted on 06/11/2017 7:32:51 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: MNDude

Interesting. As commuting time will be decreased, will this cause people to move closer to the inner cities or further away?


Very hard to know. Could go either way, or both, depending on the city and situation.


25 posted on 06/11/2017 7:37:57 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: jonascord

My PC is top of the line and exceeds the specs of all autonomous car systems. It crashed today. No biggie. Of course, I was sitting in my studio and not driving through a school zone... people think these things are made at Hogwarts and run on fairy poots.

We should focus on reducing Fed req.s so that poor ppl can buy cars again.


26 posted on 06/11/2017 7:38:16 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: marktwain

What makes you so sure—the Oracle at Delphi?


27 posted on 06/11/2017 7:39:05 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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To: Jonty30

There is a shortage of long haul truckers now.

The luddites have always resisted progress, but this will be more gradual. I suspect, for example, that there will be a demand for drivers at endpoints for final maneuvering, and regulatory brakes applied. We had firemen on trains for decades after there were no fireboxes.


28 posted on 06/11/2017 7:40:25 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lawsuits waiting to happen. Lawyers warming up in the bullpen; operators standing by, waiting to take your call...


29 posted on 06/11/2017 7:41:54 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What could possibly go wrong?


30 posted on 06/11/2017 7:42:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MinuteGal

50 DEFECTS

There are 50 defects of just one driverless gadget mounted on a vehicle. These products destroy tires, alignments, and eventually lives.

This is big tobacco lawsuits all over again. Eventually the Congress will grant computer cars special privileges and immunities from their carnage, that we humans do not get.


31 posted on 06/11/2017 7:42:26 PM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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To: Noamie

My PC is top of the line and exceeds the specs of all autonomous car systems. It crashed today. No biggie. Of course, I was sitting in my studio and not driving through a school zone... people think these things are made at Hogwarts and run on fairy poots.


Autonomous vehicles have been driving on the streets for decades already. They do not have fallible humans putting contradictory and nonsense instructions into them. They are ot connected to the Internets, a major source of malware and viruses. They have excellent safety records.


32 posted on 06/11/2017 7:43:29 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does this mean that if I buy a driverless car, I can now sit in the back seat and read a novel? I’d finally have my own personal invisible chauffeur? WOW!


33 posted on 06/11/2017 7:43:55 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Fungi

What makes you so sure—the Oracle at Delphi?


Intelligence guided by past experience, to quote Rush.


34 posted on 06/11/2017 7:44:22 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are so many issues that make this a utopian futurama fantasy.
- detecting road edges in low light, poor marking conditions
- navigating in snow, ice or heavy storm conditions (road edges again)
- finding parking spaces in cities or shopping areas.
- hazard avoidance (blown tires on your car, another one, or a semi)
- general car failure issue handling
- last second decisions (”oh, I want this rest area!”)
- numerous more scenarios I’m not gonna list

(One way to resolve the lane issue is to embed detectable markers in the road... that is, EVERY road... that cars could detect at speed (even if covered by ice) for lane alignment. You can imagine the cost/extent of this effort.)

This truly only works as an all-or-none system...and if the same software is used universally so that vehicles can (a) communicate intentions to one another, (b) react in predictable ways to the same road situations, (c) manage high traffic situations.

But the idea that everyone would yield control to make this happen is absurd... unless you force it on the population (I could see this happening in Europe).


35 posted on 06/11/2017 7:45:45 PM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: marktwain

The first death in a driverless car was in a Tesla.


36 posted on 06/11/2017 7:47:25 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

True driverless cars and especially large trucks will have to have centralized control and tracking systems. Which means they’ll be vulnerable to hacking and the fun will begin. The hackers and thieves and hijackers will be hard at work developing ways to defeat the systems and usher in a new form of auto thievery and general theft.

The general idea might prove viable, but there will be many problems to be overcome.


37 posted on 06/11/2017 7:51:22 PM PDT by Will88
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To: discostu

“Nobody, at best that’s negligent homicide. Same as if an elevator freaks out.”

Totally different situation and absolutely untested in the Courts. Elevators are simple machines that run a linear route on a track system.

They also break, often. Very unreliable.

...Versus an extremely complicated, multi directional wheeled machine operating in an open, changing environment.

Have you seen what occurs when mud gets on the lenses of the operating cameras and/or what it does when it’s given the choice of avoiding one child versus intentionally colliding with another vehicle to avoid the child? Fun stuff.


38 posted on 06/11/2017 7:52:58 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: alancarp

Your list is based on the logical fallicy that autonomous vehicles cannot take those condition into account.

Most of what you list, I know they already handle, from reading papers about the DARPA contests of autonomous vehicles from 20 years ago.

For example, the “road edges” fallacy. The first autonomous vehicles in the DARPA competitions were not even on *paved” roads, let along roads with marked edges.

Autonomous vehicles have far *superior* senses to humans, and they observe around the vehicle in 360 degees all the time, not with momentary glances in mirrors like humans do.


39 posted on 06/11/2017 7:55:12 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: lacrew

“People like me who think this is decades from viability”

I’m one of “those” people too.


40 posted on 06/11/2017 7:56:59 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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