Still, I'd love to go out boozing all night then tell my car to drive me to Miami. Wake up on the beach!
This is great news for the 80 and above crowd. IF they really end up being very reliable, it could save a lot of people losing drivers licenses. I like this a lot. BUT, they are really going to have to make them perfect and precise. I can’t tell you how many times my GPS wants to to go down a one-way street.
Yeah but what about the driverless cars made for women? Will they automatically crash?
What could possibly go wrong?
Will the driverless cars made for seniors have permanently blinking left turn signals?
Oh good....then you can drink and just be a passenger
Well, brainless politicians are mainstream already - and nothing much has changed. :)
I’m still waiting moving sidewalks at train stations where trains wouldn’t have to slow down to get on or off.
Where is my flying car? Where is my electric car that goes 300 miles on a charge?
We already have driverless cars any way. Half the time stoners arent really there upstairs as things are now.
The DUI “Driving Under the Influence” industrial complex (lawyers, cops, judges and politicians) will covertly do everything in its power to make sure this is delayed or stopped for as long as possible. There is just to much money involved.
On the other hand, there will be a huge revival in the neighborhood saloon.
This will end drunk driving when it does happen.
Don’t want!
That long?
12 years. I suppose so.
Driving yourself around like an idiot is not a Constitutional right.
This sounds great if you cannot drive although I’ll believe it when I see it. They’ve been saying that “self driving cars are just around the corner” since the 1950’s or so. There are a lot of weaknesses though. What if somebody hacks into the GPS system and causes thousands or millions of accidents? How about is the Red Chinese, the Russians, the North Koreans or Iranians EMP or otherwise take out the GPS satellites? Do the cars have enough AI to manage or at least “pull over?” I think I’ll pass for now.
Unless it has artificial intelligence and the voice of William Daniels, I’m not interested.
True story. BART the SF Bay Area subway, that’s been more or less a disaster since it started running in the early 70s was designed as a futuristic system run by computers (those lovely IBM mainframes of the late 60s!), and therein lay the problem. Critics accused the designers of neglecting the basic rules of designing a railway, such as providing sidetracks for disabled trains, and other flaws that have plagued this system for decades and cannot be easily corrected.
But anyway, the designers planned to have the trains run entirely by computers without an operator, and only freaked out realizing that passengers might freak out riding such trains. Today, the overpaid union operator that’s there in the lead car does very little except perhaps delay the closing of the train doors, the system is run by a computer. And driverless trains run at every major airport in the world.
I wouldn’t mind having a workerless job.