Student's self driving car

EoghanIRL

"When self-driving cars reach the masses, thanks may be due to a 19-year-old high-school student from Romania who developed an artificial intelligence that slashes the cost of the technology. He took top prize — a $75,000 scholarship — Friday at an international science and engineering fair.

Self-driving cars are nothing new. Tech giant Google, for example, has been working on one since 2010. But Google's uses technology that was developed without thinking about cost. His self driving car costs 4000 dollars vs 75000 for the google car "

What do you recon ah , self driving cars . Imagine getting driven home from a night out without needing to get a taxi . I have no doubt it will save lives also . Is this the future?

The Queen of England

Feckin students.

General General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwBmPiOmEGQ

Rothko

I don't know if they'll ever become popular since so many people actually enjoy driving.

TheJak01

Sure, if they can get computers to anticipate the stupid things you see every day on Irish roads, then why not. Can't see it coming in cheap though, nor will it be as enjoyable as driving yourself.

Kichote

Meh...

Rabies

When the first crash happens with a computer controlled car and a pedestrian/cyclist, the insurance companies are going to have a field day knocking up the rates.
No matter how fast the computer works, an accident will happen.

I hope drink drivers don't think it gives them free pass home.

YFlyer

How will the self driving car deal with that crazy cyclist?

20Cent

It will be gradual.
The self parking car,
then the button for motorways, etc

Next thing you know you can kip in the backseat on the way to work, bring it on.

Kichote

20Cent wrote: »

It will be gradual.
The self parking car,
then the button for motorways, etc

Next thing you know you can kip in the backseat on the way to work, bring it on.

Your job might be outsourced to a robot by then.

Rabies

Kichote wrote: »

Your job might be outsourced to a robot by then.

Or India

20Cent

Kichote wrote: »

Your job might be outsourced to a robot by then.

Don't see robot pole dancer's being popular.

The Backwards Man

We made you! WE . . .MADE. . .YOU!!!!

JustAddWater

Rabies wrote: »

Or India

Or an Indian robot

EoghanIRL

TheJak01 wrote: »

Sure, if they can get computers to anticipate the stupid things you see every day on Irish roads, then why not. Can't see it coming in cheap though, nor will it be as enjoyable as driving yourself.

4000 dollars isn't too expensive for this . The currents technology available is 75000 dollars .

pacelut

Back to the original news. Where is he from? My God, he is actually inventing? Not begging or milking the system? What will we do now with the stereotypes regarding romanians? :rolleyes:

pacelut

pacelut wrote: »

Back to the original news. Where is he from? My God, he is actually inventing? Not begging or milking the system? What will we do now with the stereotypes regarding romanians? :rolleyes:

He's romanian, not Roma, for christs sake


Anyway, self driving cars sound interesting
I like driving, but I'm thinking of the scifi situation where they're all self driving and go way quicker :cool:

corktina

my cars an automatic, nothing new here folks move on......



(I do still have to steer though...)



oh and I lied about it being an automatic for the sake of an old joke.

Capt'n Midnight

Rabies wrote: »

When the first crash happens with a computer controlled car and a pedestrian/cyclist, the insurance companies are going to have a field day knocking up the rates.
No matter how fast the computer works, an accident will happen.

Insurance and the blame game is the main reason why we didn't have self driving cars 50 years ago.

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/homer----simpson/7768065518/

Kichote

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Insurance and the blame game is the main reason why we didn't have self driving cars 50 years ago.

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/homer----simpson/7768065518/

We had them much longer ago than 50 years. They were connected to a horse that knew the way home

goose2005

Suas11 wrote: »

I don't know if they'll ever become popular since so many people actually enjoy driving.

People used to like riding horses too

Peregrine

YFlyer wrote: »

How will the self driving car deal with that crazy cyclist?

Machine guns mounted on all four corners

Gbear

Wouldn't be surprised if people driving is outlawed eventually.

Hard to argue against really.

I love driving but nobody dying on the roads anymore is an easy sell to most people.

Kichote

Gbear wrote: »

Wouldn't be surprised if people driving is outlawed eventually.

Hard to argue against really.

I love driving but nobody dying on the roads anymore is an easy sell to most people.

Thats what I'd be afraid of. Dull armchair folk listening to Joe or reading
Daily Mail will agitate to have it banned and ruin our fun. Govt is usually sympathetic to requests from the public to limit what we are allowed to do

Kichote

goose2005 wrote: »

People used to like riding horses too

They still do and you are still allowed to use horses for transport its just expensive and impractical. I just hope it will be the same with manually driven cars in the future. Hopefully robotic overlord driven cars will keep a safe distance to avoid "lunatic car driver crashes into perfectly safe robotic car with 8 children inside" headlines

wandatowell

Its all about the driving experience for me. I love nothing more than the power, the feel, the smell of my 96 Jetta roaring down the dual carraigeway at 59mph.



Gw'an ta fcuk!



p.s. fair play to the young man from Romania, but why would he need a scholarship with all the begging his family does in our towns and cities? :pac:

looking_around

I have feeling what this might do, is have people don't know how to drive still able to get a car. People won't need to learn.

It probably is the future, think some state in america, engineers are research the possibility of driverless, 1-4 people, electric vehicles.

I don;t know

jd007

Never mind a self driving car, I want to know when I'm getting my hoverboard!

Capt'n Midnight

jd007 wrote: »

Never mind a self driving car, I want to know when I'm getting my hoverboard!

2015

Probably be based on Quantum Levitation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA

Seaneh

YFlyer wrote: »

How will the self driving car deal with that crazy cyclist?

It would hopefully be obeying the rules of the road, so it wouldn't be an issue, unlike the hysterical woman who went full retard in the youtube video.

Fox_In_Socks

bluewolf wrote: »

He's romanian, not Roma, for christs sake

I tink he was doing dis new ting called Irony.:pac:


I think the only way that the self-driving car option will become a reality is if they are allowed on motorways. And by that, it will be mandatory to have the self-driving function switched on on a motorway and all non self-drivingg cars will be banned from motorways the same as cyclists/tractors/provisional license holders, are now. Negotiating towns, secondary roads etc will have to be done manually.

biko

Source that OP forgot
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/students-self-driving-car-tech-wins-intel-science-fair-1C9977186