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US to 'carefully' review GM request on autonomous car: Chao
AFP via Yahoo ^ | 01/14/17

Posted on 01/15/2018 12:04:54 PM PST by Enlightened1

Detroit (AFP) - Regulators will "carefully and responsibly" review General Motors' request to test an autonomous car without a steering wheel, US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Sunday.

"It is now coming to the stage with the rapid advancement of self-driving technology that this request is now a reality," Chao said on the sidelines of the Detroit Auto Show.

"So we will view the petition carefully and responsibly."​

GM on Friday unveiled the Cruise AV, an autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, announcing it had asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to exempt it from a number of federal standards that cannot be met with a driverless car.

GM executives have said they planned to introduce a large-scale fleet of self-driving taxis by 2019, a timeframe some analysts consider ambitious.

GM released images of the Cruise AV and video of the interior with a strikingly spacious windshield devoid of a steering wheel.

"It's quite a striking image when people see it for the first time," GM president Dan Ammann told AFP on the sidelines of a GM event Saturday.

"I think people will want to engage with the technology and understand it and experience it," Ammann said.

"But I think what's really most powerful about what the technology can offer is an increase in safety on the road. And once people understand that and see and experience it, we think the adoption will be there."

"Its hard to generalize" about whether the public is ready for autonomous cars, Ammann said. "Some people are more than ready. And other people will be watching and seeing how it evolves."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: autonomous; autonomouscar; car; driverlesscar; gm; review
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To: rigelkentaurus; Pukin Dog

I was thinking about that in the 1980’s. With all the talk of Category III (don’t know what it is these days) very few seemed to actually trust it to land the plane. Of course I’m sure being a commercial airline pilot, most the joy is actually flying.

Pukin’ Dog used to say that just monitoring the FMS on the 777 (going over the Atlantic IIRC) was extremely boring. I can believe it. One particular gig I had was a 12-hour shift of monitoring servers on 3 screens - BION, the days when nothing went wrong were the worst, because you had nothing to do. You’d get through 8 hours of boredom and you still had basically 1/2 day of work to go. The days you were busy solving problems, the 12 hours went pretty fast.

Any commercial pilots out there?


21 posted on 01/15/2018 12:20:59 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Enlightened1
"I think people will want to engage with the technology and understand it and experience it,"

What an idiot.

Anybody with half a brain is going to run as far away from one of these things, as fast as they can, lest they get run over.

22 posted on 01/15/2018 12:21:20 PM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: William of Barsoom
...so how do ya put the idiot thing in the garage? Does it have THAT level of geo-spatial knowledge?

Good point. Next up: GM requires all buyers must have Google StreetView map their driveway and garage.


23 posted on 01/15/2018 12:21:27 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Enlightened1

What I’d like to know is who does GM think it’s sucking up to?


24 posted on 01/15/2018 12:21:59 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Enlightened1

Open the car door, Hal.......................

25 posted on 01/15/2018 12:22:53 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: VastRWCon

The good news is both can ride shotgun. The bad news is, it will probably have a shotgun detector. And forced PBS for liberal brainwashing.


26 posted on 01/15/2018 12:22:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: FirstFlaBn

Nice! Can the robot built into the dash hand you and your friend a glass of bubbly, too?

Seems like the old transmission tunnel “hump” is going to be replaced with a different hump.


27 posted on 01/15/2018 12:23:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.


28 posted on 01/15/2018 12:23:56 PM PST by Eddie01 (Stormy Kromer)
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To: Red Badger

Fortunately nothing went wrong there.....


29 posted on 01/15/2018 12:24:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Enlightened1

30 posted on 01/15/2018 12:24:35 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Enlightened1

And every time I see a driverless car, I immediately wonder when will be the first time someone loads one up with explosives and drives it to the local church, courthouse, or school.


31 posted on 01/15/2018 12:24:53 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Enlightened1

So who gets sued when an crash occurs. The car company responsible for steering the car?


32 posted on 01/15/2018 12:25:01 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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To: Enlightened1

But does it know when you gotta stop and pee?


33 posted on 01/15/2018 12:26:13 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Enlightened1

The CIA is just taking all the mystery about using vehicles to assassinate political enemies...


34 posted on 01/15/2018 12:26:36 PM PST by HombreSecreto (They never thought that she would lose - God had other plans)
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To: Enlightened1

I don’t want to be on the road with a car with no steering wheel. Driving around with a bunch of potheads is challenging enough.


35 posted on 01/15/2018 12:26:49 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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To: Enlightened1

You don’t want to drive? Take a bus.


36 posted on 01/15/2018 12:26:57 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Well, fine.

Evidently all those films of me in Drivers Ed weren’t destroyed after all.


37 posted on 01/15/2018 12:27:26 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ClearCase_guy

So ...

will I need auto insurance?

... or will General Motors need to provide insurance for everyone who lets them control the car?

...

They’ll have liability like they do now. Most of the liability will go to the owner. These are intended to be fleet cars, at least initially.


38 posted on 01/15/2018 12:28:28 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hehe. Its true though all joking aside.. there will be no purpose for the seats “as-is”. Wouldn’t more comfy seating make more sense.
Even the BEST bucket seats suck after a few hundred miles.
Oh wait.. Prolly electric and doesn’t have that range Hahaha!


39 posted on 01/15/2018 12:28:44 PM PST by CygnusXI
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To: Enlightened1

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We need immediate action from congress to ban these insane Road Boulders!
.


40 posted on 01/15/2018 12:28:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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