They can remove all regulations to promote driverless cars. But it's never gonna be a dull reality. Because real world is not easy to model in software. You can try all AI or whatever, something says nothing can match the human instinct.
Well it’s same old tired argument. Don’t change anything until I, the consumer, am ready. I’m still using my ten year old Mac so Apple better make sure I get security updates and patches until I’m darned good and ready to buy something else. USB-C is okay as long as you keep the standard USB ports too until I’m darned good and ready to buy something else. Or else I’m looking with “tentative, doubting, squinting eyes” at going to the competition. Guess what? Apple doesn’t care, never has cared, from ADB and SCSI, NuBus, to doing away with DVDs before consumers were “ready” for it. And Apple is doing quite well with that way of doing business.
They can remove all regulations to promote driverless cars. But it's never gonna be a dull reality. Because real world is not easy to model in software. You can try all AI or whatever, something says nothing can match the human instinct.
Starting on April 2, companies in the Bay Area that are working on self-driving vehicle technology will be able to deploy cars that do not have a driver behind the wheel.
This, however, can be a scary thought. This is one reason (the only reason) I hope Apple gets into the game. Imagine a terrorist cell or even one “lone wolf” who can hack a truck and drive it through a crowd
Serious question. When it's found that a software/hardware glitch caused a fatal accident, who will be liable?
This could bring back the pump jockey at fuel and EV stations.
What about the blind? They are listening for cars and such crossing at intersections. These electric cars are very quiet. Blind people are taught to raise their cane to show drivers that they are preparing to cross the road. Of course driverless cas wouldn’t know.I think looking both ways before crossing the street is one of the earliest lessons I was taught. Also, I’d rather trust an autonomous car coming at me than a drunk driver.
No, dude - I was talking about driverless cars, not Uber. I don't care about Uber and this article isn't about Uber. Nobody ever claimed driverless cars would alleviate traffic problems, that is not their goal.No, it wasn't just specific to driverless cars.
https://www.ted.com/talks/travis_ka...ussion?referrer=playlist-the_economy_of_trust
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/16/technology/uber-travis-kalanick/index.html
And now you also have these companies proposing set routes where the cars just go around in circles and don't necessarily drop you off exactly at your location (like a bus). Imagine what that's going to be like for congestion.
In Pittsburgh, and other places, some Uber cars are self driving and someday will be driverless.No, dude - I was talking about driverless cars, not Uber.
Not all autonomous cars are electric... The one in the picture isn't. Even so, they have significantly better reaction time than humans and they will be able to stop earlier if they detect a person in the way. There are practically no limits to how these cars can be programmed, they can absolutely detect if there is a person on the side of the road attempting to cross.What about the blind? They are listening for cars and such crossing at intersections. These electric cars are very quiet. Blind people are taught to raise their cane to show drivers that they are preparing to cross the road. Of course driverless cas wouldn’t know.
What does that have to do with anything?In Pittsburgh, and other places, some Uber cars are self driving and someday will be driverless.
Inductive charging has a very long way to go before it is viable to use in EV's - even the most efficient implementations are around 65% which means you are wasting 35% of the electricity you are using to charge the car. There will be automated plugs long before they attempt to use inductive charging, if the technology for inductive charging ever gets there.I guess self-driving EVs will have inductive charging and only have to park on the right spot. Self-driving gasoline cars will probably be very rare and thus there won‘t be any infrastructure to fill them up automatically. aren‘t there any service-gas stations left in the US? we still have the occasional one in europe. a self-driving gas-car could just go there.
While I agree in principle, it'll be decades before we see that kind of benefit. If left purely to market forces, driverless cars will remain a small percentage of the vehicles on the road for the foreseeable future. Expense combined with the general unease of relinquishing control to a computer is going to make this an uphill battle. So much research has been done into the technology, but not enough into the psychology.
Are driverless cars only for fair weather states? How do they navigate with snow on the road or when sea gulls muddy up the sensor lenses?
You can try all AI or whatever, something says nothing can match the human instinct.
Serious question. When it's found that a software/hardware glitch caused a fatal accident, who will be liable?
I think looking both ways before crossing the street is one of the earliest lessons I was taught. Also, I’d rather trust an autonomous car coming at me than a drunk driver.