It's about the causes of death, not the numbers. If I crash my manually operated car, it's my fault or another driver's, not the carmaker's. Or if I'm hit as a pedestrian.
Autonomous carmakers would need some kind of govt-mandated immunity from lawsuits, provided their crash rate is low enough, or they'd have to just take the lawsuits.
IMO the car won't be something you buy and own yourself. I can see Apple using autonomous driving for many things beyond selling you a car.
It seems more likely they will have a subscription service for the vehicles, fleets of them in cities, and they deploy based on need. Want to go somewhere, ask Siri and the vehicle shows up to take you there.
To be clear, self driving cars are NEVER going to happen. The problem space is too big.
The tech might be useful in other endeavors though.
Anyone that bought into the idea should have known better.
Guess that'll work, let the customers assume liability if they break the rules, even if everyone is breaking them.they wont say they're liable until their data shows it can handle 99.999999999% of drives. once that happens, they'll simply eat the costs of any crashes they're liable for. until then, the driver is responsible for paying attention and make any adjustments if necessary. this is what Tesla is doing now.
That's hilarious. Though, the guy should've bought something cooler than a Lexus that has a stick or at least F1 transmission.LMAO
I saw that VERY same Lexus commercial too. Where the guy is sitting sidewise along the HWY talking about driving in his youth ... where the memories drift towards present day and his smile slowly becomes a frown and a saddened poop face.
Nothing is ever what it seemsApple is still 5+ years from launching any vehicle, if at all
It seems like they still don’t even no what they want to do in this space. After ten years and billions and billions of $ spent
Yes. I reserved believing until I actually saw it happening. There was so much fake news before like Mercedes's "self-driving" vehicle that was really just something preprogrammed to drive on a closed track. Now there's a video of a Tesla driving the nearby freeway to Santa Cruz in moderate traffic with absolutely no input from the driver. It's real.Meanwhile, I'm expecting a software update for my Model 3 within the next two weeks enabling Full Self Driving. That'll be pushed out to about a million customer owned vehicles.
Feel free to check for all the videos of people using Tesla's Full Self Driving beta already on YouTube - hundreds if not thousands of beta testers already out there.
Waymo is operating hundreds of vehicles with nobody in them on public roads, too.
You're talking about a different issue from the one being addressed in my quote. Mass deployment is also going to require a comprehensive upgrade to our infrastructure: roads, bridges, traffic comms, cameras, standard language for vehicle cross-talk, etc. 15-20 years? Idk. But again, different issue from the legality mentioned by @farewelwilliams15-20 years before any sort of mass deployment for the general consumer. test pilot systems have to orders better at AI than they can be with our current designs for AI.
A small issue in this discussion, but the EV1 was a General Motors product. It was serviced at Saturn dealerships and only available by lease.Electric vehicles have been around for quite a while, the most notable ones being the Ford EV1 (modeled after the Probe) and Toyota's RAV4 EV way back from the Nineties.
Yes. I reserved believing until I actually saw it happening. There was so much fake news before like Mercedes's "self-driving" vehicle that was really just something preprogrammed to drive on a closed track. Now there's a video of a Tesla driving the nearby freeway to Santa Cruz in moderate traffic with absolutely no input from the driver. It's real.
This is more the case simply because people don't buy new cars that often, myself included.15-20 years before any sort of mass deployment for the general consumer. test pilot systems have to orders better at AI than they can be with our current designs for AI.
People aren't happy with driving in dense or congested cities.Except no one cares. People in general are not interested in autonomous driving. Not at all. It is an entertaining gimmick inside the tech bubble. It doesn't exist outside of that.
It makes for a cool albeit extremely expensive proof-of-concept. One that will not get off the ground in our lifetime. It doesn't matter if its safer....it could be many orders of magnitude safer. People are happy with things the way they are, and are not clamoring for their cars to drive for them.
You’re tripping.You mean the guy responsible for Siri? Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
"Millions"??? As it is now the near 330 million population of the USA is only responsible for about 38,000 vehicle related deaths per year.nope. driverless vehicles will be legal in the next 5-10 years. yes driverless vehicles will kill thousands of people but the data will show it will save millions.
Will you have to flip the car over on it's roof like the Apple mouse to charge it so the charging port does not detract from the design?
Apple is continuing work on developing some kind of autonomous vehicle product, and the project is under new leadership. Apple artificial intelligence lead John Giannandrea is now overseeing Apple Car development as prior lead Bob Mansfield has retired, reports Bloomberg.
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One of the self-driving vehicles Apple uses to test its autonomous driving software
It's been quite some time since we heard news about the Apple Car, but Project Titan as the car development is known is now in the hands of Giannandrea, though day to day operations continue to be overseen by Doug Field.
Field was reporting to Bob Mansfield, who came out of retirement in 2016 to handle the Apple Car project. Mansfield first retired in June 2012, but ultimately remained at Apple as an advisor. Prior to being led by Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering Dan Riccio was overseeing work on the Apple Car.
Giannandrea is Apple's senior vice president of AI and machine learning, and Project Titan's hundreds of engineers are now under his watch. Giannandrea also heads up Siri development and Apple's work on machine learning.
Apple has been working on some kind of self-driving car technology since 2014, but development has been stymied by technical and leadership challenges. Apple was originally working on a full car, but focus seems to have shifted to an in-car autonomous driving system. Apple continues to have dozens of self-driving test vehicles out on the road.
Back in 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that Apple is working on autonomous driving software. "We're focusing on autonomous systems. It's a core technology that we view as very important. We sort of see it as the mother of all AI projects. It's probably one of the most difficult AI projects actually to work on," he said.
Article Link: AI Chief John Giannandrea Takes Over Apple Car Project
Ok...You’re tripping.
This guy is NOT famous for the last few years of AI work he has done on Siri. He is famous for his like decade of AI work he did as the head of a search engine called “Google”.
I’m glad people chuckled at your ribbing, I guess- but if you want to pretend like the man isn’t extremely knowledgeable, and one of the top AI guys on the planet, that’s super disingenuous.
Ok...
I'm waiting for the improvements he'll make with Siri. Because it hasn't improved since he got here. If anything, Siri has gotten slower and less responsive.
"Millions"??? As it is now the near 330 million population of the USA is only responsible for about 38,000 vehicle related deaths per year.