Quote (duffman316 @ Feb 2 2018 09:46am)
if we leave it to individuals there will probably be a long string of car crashes and blame being shifted back and forth between auto manufacturers and car owners over manufacturing defects vs failure to maintain the vehicle properly
Why would that be the case?
The motive of this effort is purely financial. Autonomous vehicles becoming commonplace would completely eliminate the validity of their business model.
It doesn't take an expert to click a destination on a map and then sit and do nothing until they get there.
Quote (ampoo @ Feb 2 2018 10:15am)
zero fucks given, i will always drive my car myself
We can only hope that one day, when autonomous vehicles are sufficiently developed, human driving on most public roads is illegal, so that those who insist on driving manually can't endanger others' lives.
Quote (Skinned @ Feb 2 2018 10:39am)
Self driving cars panic when a simple cone is in the road.
They're in their infancy and even then that isn't true at all. Their obstacle navigation is already very sophisticated with the help of machine vision.
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Feb 2 2018 10:46am)
self-driving cars might be a godsend to those who communte wide distances every day with their car (instead of the bus or suburban trains).
right now, driving to work by car is mostly wasted time. with a self-driving car, you could use it to eat breakfast, you could use it to read the newspaper, read a book, browse d2jsp or other popular websites on your cellphone, and so on.
for someone who spends 2 hours each day getting to work and back home (1h for the one-way trip), switching to a self-driving car might be equivalent to 1.5 hours of additional free time per workday.
Yeah the ability to travel in your own vehicle while being able to spend that time doing whatever you like will be enormously beneficial.
This post was edited by Voyaging on Feb 3 2018 05:48am