Driverless Vehicles, Coming To A Road Near You Too Soon!

[mattr]

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Man, you are really clutching at straws now. The first one was a car with no driver that someone had fiddled with the throttle, usually called a runaway. Do you ever check your sources? :facepalm:

Second one was the first coming together of an autonomous car and a member of the public, ever. At a colossal 2mph.

Software is already updated to mitigate against this sort of risk (bus drivers in a hurry)

"rolling HGV thunder"? Nah, Don't think so.

 

[highlandsflyer]

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsy8yV4GRwA[/youtube]

 

[highlandsflyer]

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM[/youtube]

 

[chrisv40]

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[highlandsflyer]

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[shogun]

Many drivers I see each day are little more than drones, set in motion from their home and making very few inputs hence.

I don't see driverless cars being much worse. That said I'm not over keen on them. I plan to own at least one car with no computer or connectivity well into the future.

 

[pigman]

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great in theory till you realise people still want choice.

Much like the paperless office - a great theory till you realise the goods inwards guy wants to look at and tick off a paper copy of the order

 

[technodup]

Man, you are really clutching at straws now.

Innit. Confronted with a guy who obviously works in or near the tech and therefore has some actual knowledge, start trawling the web for anecdotal 'proof' the tech doesn't work, whilst ignoring the success rate and of course the equivalent failure rate for human drivers.

A quick look down my street and the newest vehicle is a 15 plate. The rest are 10, 12 years old. How are these owners going to be persuaded to spend their money?

People driving 12 year old cars tend not to have any money so maybe your street isn't the initial target demographic. But more generally I think maybe the R&D, marketing and sales departments of Mercedes, Lexus, Nissan, Toyota, BMW, VW, GM, Volvo, Google, Apple, Tesla et al have given that some thought...

I'll start:- tax breaks, lower cost to run, different 'ownership' models, environmental pressure, scrappage schemes, workplace schemes...

These arguments are just head in the sand ridiculous. This isn't one company taking a punt, this is a combined effort from the worldwide car industry, Silicon Glen and leading governments. When big business and government both want us to do something rightly or wrongly we'll be doing it soon enough.

 

[legrandefromage]

You've missed my other point about the teenagers not taking up driving so much - as I've said before it will be a generational thing.

 

[highlandsflyer]

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People who have real money don't tend to give a toss what they drive, and can often be found driving Renault 4s and Pug 205s of ancient vintage. Astons and RRs might be in the garage, but the car they use to head down the village shop is usually a banger of some sort. For shooting and fishing the series Landy is the preferred option, often a 60s or 70s model.

As far as understanding the tech behind autonomous vehicles, I doubt I have less of a grasp than most.

We are what is known as 'early adopters' when it comes to tech. After all, I was part of the first generation to use personal computers at school. I am all for meaningful progress, but sometimes we are merely throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

No wanky little displaced pollution bubble car with a touch screen interface is going to replace my thundering horses and flatulent exhaust. I want to feel the buckets of ancient sea-life spewing through the inferno as I slam the throttle, and observe the embarrassment of the geek in his Euro pissbox with the 'rugged' plastic trim as his girlfriend gazes over and wets her gusset as my elephantine bonnet lifts, and the horses strain to contain themselves, or indeed keep on track as the squealing tractor size wheels struggle to gain purchase at ASDA roundabout. Yes, I almost lost it and sent us into the school janitor's vegetable patch, but that geek will remember this night as his girlfriend tugs him into bed and demands he turn off the light and shove DAVE on. The one with the classic Range Rover V8 review by Quentin Wilson. As she demands full performance, and pictures me putting the hammer down to achieve her climax, he will do his best, and after will come to realise what he needs is to trade that Euro shitbox in and get himself a real car. A man's car.

If there is an expert here, then all I would say is they are too close to the tech to give objective views.

From the responses I would also suggest the 'expert' does not understand much of what is being said, as he continually mistakes comment and opinion for some claim of knowledge and wastes time addressing irrelevant asides rather than providing any insight.

As far as being the men in white coats poking 'us' with a stick..

Let us all remember what the men in white coats were up to in Sweden in the not too distant past.