Sam Kade wrote: » But you are comparing a situation where you would have no other cars on the road.
murpho999 wrote: » How? Planes have other planes in the sky and they avoid each other.
Oodoov wrote: » People like to drive. It won't become the norm.
fizzypish wrote: » Planes have a 3d environment. Cars only have 2d. A lot more cars than planes too.
murpho999 wrote: » How? Planes have other planes in the sky and they avoid each other. Do you really think that autonomous cars will be released onto the roads without the ability to detect other road users? They will be an awful safer than what we currently have.
murpho999 wrote: » It's still the same principle. Avoidance collision software will work.
Oodoov wrote: » And nobody runs out across the road in front of an airplane, cyclists and motorbikes don't filter past airplanes either. How do we think these self driving cars are going to handle our nations wonderful potholes? I'm sorry how much will those new sensors cost mister Honda? Is that a puddle or has a part of the road just given way? Oh shoot is that a massive diesel spill on the road? Darn it's begun to snow and the road marking are gone? Silly trees and their falling Autumn leaves have blocked the road markings, mother nature :mad:!!! Oh oh road works!!!
Kevin Irving wrote: » I like to drive, I don't like sitting for 2 hours on the motorway in the lashing rain and fog at night though.
Johnnyhpipe wrote: » I'm not sure that self driving cars can ever overcome the inevitable moral dilemma... the car is heading towards a group of school children and doesn't have enough time to brake. Does it: A) plough through the entire class throw its owner off the road and down a cliff (for some reason!!)
Oodoov wrote: » Self driving cars won't solve that, if anything it will be a longer commute. More people will be able to drive equals more cars. M50 will be even more fun when heavy rain makes road markings unreadable. Hey maybe i'm wrong but self driving cars seem like a disaster waiting to happen. Sometimes less technology is better for the majority.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » How does a human driver overcome this moral dilemma?
Sam Kade wrote: » Planes go as the crow flies, roads have bends and cars coming in the opposite direction at close range. I know this car was still in the testing phase but there's a long way to go to have them as safe as you imagine they will be.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/13/tesla-autopilot-investigation-fatal-crash?0p19G=c
fizzypish wrote: » If a pilot has to move off his/her (Just gonna make the pilot male from here on) "lane", the he must communicate with neighboring aircraft. This is pretty grand when there's few other crafts but you'll notice near airports there needs to be a massive control tower due to the amount of traffic. This is well known to be a very stressful job. If it could be safely done via computer, they'd be doing it. From the SW POV, craft A moves automatically to avoid craft B. It veers into another lane. Craft C then needs to adjust, then D, then E and in busy airspace the ripple will spread. All aircraft in the vicinity need to be hooked up to the same system, all receiving real time data with perfect clarity. I don't know how air control works but they're still taking calls from the control tower to do this. Aircraft are not automatically moving. Even if they were, say the system was controlling 1000 planes in its airspace. Any system used for cars would have to deal with much higher volumes. 1 car goes off the grid fore some reason, the system doesn't realize its there and you've got a 20 car pileup before it can respond. Just in case you think I'm ****ting on your view, I'm not. The tech is there. The infrastructure is not. You'd need to remove every non automated vehicle from the road too.
murpho999 wrote: » Do you not think that all these problems have been thought of by the manufacturers? All these issues you are talking about are being worked on.
fizzypish wrote: » Yes but I don't think 10 years is enough time to make the technology robust. All I can say is I won't be touching an automatic car until after they've been fully launched for over 10 years.
Shenshen wrote: » I remember talking to someone online about electric cars some 7 years ago or so. I was confidently assured that those would not go into production before the year 2050. I'm driving one now.
murpho999 wrote: » This has been in development for years already so will be very robust when complete. You know when steam trains first came out people said that people would be killed by the g-forces of the train travelling at 50kph.
Sam Kade wrote: » Even though people were galloping on horses at 35 mph long before trains, stop making up stuff for your argument
murpho999 wrote: » "Before the opening of the first major railway line, the Liverpool & Manchester in 1830, there were fears it would be impossible to breathe while travelling at such a velocity, or that the passengers’ eyes would be damaged by having to adjust to the motion."Source
Sam Kade wrote: » You"re gone from auto pilot in planes to the first trains it still doesn't mean that self driving cars will be the norm in 10 years.
ScumLord wrote: » When self driving cars are routine it's as likely people probably won't need to own cars. You could just hire the car for the time you need it and leave all the responsibility of maintaining it to someone else. Most people only need the car in the morning to go to work, the evening to come home and at the weekend to do some shopping. The costs to taxi companies would plummet once the driver is taken out of the equation, they could own twice as many cars for the price of hiring a load of drivers.
Muhammed_1 wrote: » I wonder what the car would do if sexy times happen in the car?
TheOven wrote: » Go to something like a race track where you aren't risking lives if you want to drive yourself.
