What kind of an American are you?! Now, me, I'm waiting for this baby to come out with an AWD model
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What kind of an American are you?! Now, me, I'm waiting for this baby to come out with an AWD model
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Those demographics typically live in outer-suburban or rural areas, where mass transit isn't generally convenient anyway.
You mean like this?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/09/google-automated-cars/
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
The google car had a google accident. But it was a google human who was driving:
And BMW has a car that will drive itself around the Top Gear track at full speed:
Link to video.
And BMW has a car that will drive itself around the Top Gear track at full speed:
Link to video.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Applying the blinkers as if you're also planning to go on the shoulder might scare them.
Great idea, I'll have to try this. Though inching over a little bit would probably help, too.
Thoughtful Thug
Deity
Yeah. And don't forget Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon to name a few that had won DARPA challenges (Sponsor from the Department of Defense).
There are also challenges in Germany and other places too. A mix of private and/or government funding, depending where the competition is at.
I am gonna keep spamming this in all car related threads. I think it is both interesting and important to get this message across.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
It is going to keep getting very positive publicity until one of the automated cars kills someone. According to the video, one of the primary purposes of doing it was so that you can safely text while driving, which the driver did to demonstrate how "safe" it was to do so. Given that it is a new system that likely has bugs, I really wonder about the wisdom of doing so even momentarily for a reporter.
It also makes me wonder about the one google car crash so far. How often are the cars operated manually if their job is to log test miles?
It also makes me wonder about the one google car crash so far. How often are the cars operated manually if their job is to log test miles?
Which will predictably be overblown by the media, despite total hours logged demonstrating how much more likely a human driver is to kill someone or himself.
I would hand over control of driving to a computer without much in the way of qualms. I'd only be concerned about winter driving, 4x4 driving (which wouldn't be fun without controlling the vehicle anyway) and reckless speeding.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
I have no problem with it just as long as the driver and the programmers are legally responsible for criminally negligent manslaughter. I really have a difficult time believing that the local authorities are allowing google to do this on public streets and highways at this stage of development.
Living in Ravenna, as you do, a town with more auto junk yards then the rest of Ohio put together, aren't you concerned for the economic consequences to your community of fewer traffic accidents?
But driving is fun. And handing over your life to a machine simply advances the date of the Robopocolypse.
A really good point. Don't the Automakers have good lawyers? If they impliment these controls, won't they be legally responsible when they fail?
dIZZyBlIZZy
Batteries not included
Yes it is, but it was moreso once upon a time when we could afford to go on Sunday drives to absolutely nowhere.
It hit me a bit ago. There is some advantage to driving home after having to work til 1am.
After my car had just driven itself for the past twenty minutes, I'd feel fairly safe in taking five or ten seconds to send a text. Anyway, the stats in the story are that as of a year ago Google automated cars have logged 140000 miles under automated control (but apparently with the driver occasionally taking control), and 1000 miles explicitly without the driver taking control.
