I drove my nephew to work in town today and I’m pretty sure the roads are already full of driverless cars.
The profit incentive is much more powerful for OTR trucks.
Warehouse to warehouse, rail yard to warehouse, factory to warehouse, mostly expressway driving.
That is very straight forward, plus, loaders and unloaders are waiting for the trucks, not riding in them.
If you can couple and decouple and gas up robotically, you have a driverless truck that literally runs 24 hours a day, every day, and never gets tired, never calls in sick, and never asks for a paycheck.
Wow amazing but....can the car cook and do windows?
Good and bad. Bad is what happens when something goes wrong? Judging from man’s inability to create software that always works and doesn’t do anything stupid when something goes wrong, I prefer to remain skeptical.
If they perfect it, then go out or a pop and don’t worry about who’s driving. Safer driving for young drivers. No crazy driving, weaving, tailgating, passing in the breakdown lane. I’m starting to like it.
Wow and to think a brody knob was a great invention for making boobie playtime easier
No, they won't. It is several orders of magnitude easier to automate an airliner than an automobile, yet who among us would willingly fly in an airplane with no pilot and no ground station controlling it?
Another 10-15 years is not going to change that.
I would hope the day never comes when “driverless” cars are mandatory. There is something quintessentially American about getting in a car, seeking a destination on a map, and going there. Or, just getting in a car and meandering down some coastal highway, with no particular destination in mind.
I think you’d probably have to have the highways of the future quite different than what we see now. Cars will be equipped with magnetic devices or with devices that can be attached to tracks on the roads. It will all be computer controlled and operated. This is great visionary advice. Please send all checks to my address, Driftless the Seer—5555 Karnak Road, Nome, Alaska.99998
When I want to drive 90 or better on the freeway no damn car is going to tell me I can’t!!!
I wonder what auto insurance will cost for a driverless car?
Just wait until that main fuse or circuit breaker blows....
Pfft Driverless Cars is cool and all but I watched Star Trek in Primetime as a kid. Where are my Teleporters and Antigrav units I was promised?