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Google are working on self driving cars!

  • 11-10-2010 3:28pm
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Article Here

    This is fantastic. Great to see someone working on making real technologies combine to make something properly cool – self driving cars! Using Google maps, a few cameras and a bunch of proximity sensors, Google has been successfully trailing them in California – over 200,000km in total - accident free apart from on car getting rear ended! Seems like they work pretty well already – they don’t plan to have them out for about 8 years, but I can see this taking off substantially when it does. It would be great to have for those long boring drives!

    There is already a post about this in AH but the discussion wavers around end of the world and the Terminaror etc


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  • #2
    Mena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    Meh, they're way behind on this one. BMW did this ages ago, JC tested out the 335i that took him around the TG track if I recall.

    Edit: here it is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rbUfTYykc


  • #3
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    They did but they had to program in the track - and it was just a hot lap, these cars actually negotiate traffic in cities and avoid obstacles & pedestrains etc


  • #4
    Mena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    Zascar wrote: »
    They did but they had to program in the track - and it was just a hot lap, these cars actually negotiate traffic in cities and avoid obstacles & pedestrains etc

    That is a step ahead I'd agree.

    Though, I can't see myself using something like that much. I like driving too much.


  • #5
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    It would be bloody brilliant to be able to go to the pub and have a few pints, and have the car take you home at the end of the night though! Or even get a snooze in on the way to work in the morning!

    Google are betting on the fact that you will spend this spare time surfing the web – which is why they are doing all this. Oh, and for the greater good of Humanity too, of course!


  • #6
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Zascar wrote: »
    It would be bloody brilliant to be able to go to the pub and have a few pints, and have the car take you home at the end of the night though! Or even get a snooze in on the way to work in the morning!
    Nah, I can guarantee that for at least 30 years after the first ones come on the market, all road traffic laws will state that there must be a sober person in the driving seat ready to take control at all times.

    I'll probably be close to the grave when it's finally possible to always have a lift to the pub. :(


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  • #7
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Yeah that's very very probable - however if they showed themselves to be better and saver dries than the average human, maybe it might change!

    It would be good if these self driving cars lad different rules like being allowed to do 160kph in grouped together speed trains on long motorways.


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