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Google Could Put Self-Driving Cars on the Roads by Summer 2015
Yahoo News via Market Realist ^ | 06/01/2015 | Anne Shields

Posted on 06/01/2015 1:42:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Google’s self-driving cars will hit the roads by summer 2015 On May 21, 2015, Nvidia (NVDA) started shipping Drive PX, its hardware and software development kit, to leading luxury car manufacturers including Bentley, Aston Martin, Tesla (TSLA), and Rolls-Royce.

Google (GOOG), which has been in this space for the last six years, will be putting its self-driving cars on public roads by as early as summer 2015. Tech giants report that Google, with a fleet of almost 20 self-driving cars, now averages ~10,000 self-driving miles per week. Google claims that its cars have 75 years of US adult driving experience if its test-run miles are taken into account.

North America is expected to lead self-driving cars sales According to the IHS study, North America will account for 29% of global sales of SDCs (self-driving cars) in 2035. This would include level-4 SDCs, which also permit human control, and level-5 SDCs, self-driving-only cars. North America is supposed to be followed by China (FXI) with 24% share of sales, or over 2.8 million units. Western Europe is projected to account for 20% of sales, or 2.4 million vehicles.

Google reveals its accident statistics

Sometime ago, Google revealed its accident data to prove that its self-driving cars are safe on the road. The company stated that its cars had been involved in 11 “minor” accidents, with no injuries, during its six years in the space. Naturally, the company stated that the accidents weren’t the fault of its cars.

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The graphic above shows the result of a study done on autonomous cars by IHS Automotive Consulting and Advisory Services.
1 posted on 06/01/2015 1:42:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
I have always wondered how the Google Car handles situations like this:

2 posted on 06/01/2015 1:43:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This all hits a speed bump the first time a kid gets hit in a school crossing or gets knocked off his bike. Lawsuit city.


3 posted on 06/01/2015 1:45:22 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: SeekAndFind; tx_eggman
Google claims that its cars have 75 years of US adult driving experience

Does this mean they drive like the typical 75 year old? LOOKOUT, GRANDMA!
4 posted on 06/01/2015 1:45:43 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just a thought - but these are going to quickly become targets for vandals and thieves. Probably something Google isn’t thinking about.

Unmanned, wealthy corporate vehicle coming through the hood after dark? Get the rocks ready!


5 posted on 06/01/2015 1:50:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

I really want to see one of those cars drive up here with all the deer and elk running around. We have rock slides and fallen trees as well. All that happens in less than a second.


6 posted on 06/01/2015 1:50:49 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: SeekAndFind

7 posted on 06/01/2015 1:50:54 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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Yeah I think this thing is being exaggerated. I mean how does it know the difference between a rock in the road and a paper bag or the difference between leaves in the road and broken glass? Or how about when a cop want you to pull over, does it recognize lights in the rear view mirror? This thing cannot be driving at any reasonable speed.


8 posted on 06/01/2015 1:51:55 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: ColdOne
I really want to see one of those cars drive up here with all the deer and elk running around. We have rock slides and fallen trees as well. All that happens in less than a second.

They react faster than you even first see the obstacle.
9 posted on 06/01/2015 1:52:14 PM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: SeekAndFind

“I have always wondered how the Google Car handles situations like this”

With a lot of sensors-

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/189486-how-googles-self-driving-cars-detect-and-avoid-obstacles


10 posted on 06/01/2015 1:53:08 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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I will never have an only self-driving car. Forget that crap. I will turn off as much of the computer as I can.


11 posted on 06/01/2015 1:56:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Of course the cost and concerns liability insurance for self-driving cars would keep an ordinary company out of the self-driving car business for quite a few years in the future. Just like they would have kept an ordinary company out of the nuclear plant business back in the 1950s.

But General Electric and Westinghouse were not ordinary companies back then, and Google is not an ordinary company today.

Can anyone identify what made GE and Westinghouse so special back then, and what makes Google so special today?

12 posted on 06/01/2015 1:58:28 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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DOA. Every time I read about self-driving cars I am left wondering about terrorists loading one up with explosives and sending it on its merry way. And, yes, maybe it requires a warm body to initiate. Okay, so they tie up some poor soul and dump them in the car. The result is a Google-delivered bomb.


13 posted on 06/01/2015 1:58:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: TexasGunLover
They react faster than you even first see the obstacle. The cars or the deer react faster?
14 posted on 06/01/2015 1:59:30 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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Stupid stupid stupid. A really dumb idea.


15 posted on 06/01/2015 2:00:53 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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Good car for the frail elderly.


16 posted on 06/01/2015 2:01:24 PM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns, and kneeling at the feet of Mary)
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To: Reno89519

-— The result is a Google-delivered bomb. -—

What’s to stop them now from parking a truck and walking away?


17 posted on 06/01/2015 2:02:42 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SeekAndFind
How about Google comes up with self-driving buses. Then we could fill the with illegals and ... “away we go!”
18 posted on 06/01/2015 2:02:53 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SeekAndFind
They left out auto-refueling.

-PJ

19 posted on 06/01/2015 2:05:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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...these are going to quickly become targets for vandals...

Do you think they will get tagged with gang gafitti like railway cars?

-PJ

20 posted on 06/01/2015 2:08:16 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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