self driving sooner than we think!

[pianotuna]

Interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8PR5wKT9VA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0zI4Duqb5UVoemMm7-sLCUC803Rj...

[maillemaker]

You will know the turning point has been reached when they start altering road construction and signage to accommodate autonomous vehicles. When they start embedding things in the roadway, or special stripes on the roadway, or special visual or RF beacons on the roadside, that serve no purpose but to help AI vehicles navigate the roads, then you will know that the turning point has come.

Today, everything you see on and around roadways is to enable human drivers. Soon, there will be things there to enable AI drivers.

[mich800]

philh wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
It's already available on Tesla and other cars. It could be auto-pilot or driver assist. The auto-pilot can be totally driverless except for there is no regulations yet on the matter and car manufacturers are being cautious with the liability issues.

This is useful to us who drive long distance. And for me because I want to go sightseeing which is not possible when my full attention is into driving.

Actually no, there are no self driving cars.

There are people in the industry that think it's a short period of time, like a couple of years away. Me personally, I think it's over a decade or more away.

The Tesla is self driving. You just need to ignore the crashes and the actual disclaimer in the manual it is not. :B

[valhalla360]

Teslas are not self driving.

As with a lot of new cars, some driving functions can be taken over by the car but self driving isn't available on any production car.

It will come eventually but it's more likely to continue to be an evolutionary process where the easiest functions are incorporated first with the driver there to handle the more difficult functions.
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Lane Assist
- Curve Speed Limiter
- Traction Control
- Low Speed Self Parking

These are all functions that the car can do now.

I could see in 10yrs they reach the point where it becomes an honest question if they should skip the steering wheel...really, they could have a removable stalk now where you put a tablet and use that to control the car in a kind of limp mode if you really need direct control.

PS: As much fun as a sci-fi world with self driving cars sounds, it's a huge potential money saver. You can safely draft 10ft behind another car, crashes (and associated repair bills and injury bills) will drop like a rock. Lots of things we don't even know yet.

[time2roll]

midnightsadie wrote:
one of the top ten most stupid things they,ve come up with.

The idea might be for safer driving to reduce the 30,000+ deaths from vehicles every year in the US.
Worldwide almost 1.25 million die each year in a car wreck. And to think we are worried about a new virus....

[azrving]

A thousand dollars? Its easy to spend $200 at the grocery store

[midnightsadie]

one of the top ten most stupid things they,ve come up with.

[philh]

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
It's already available on Tesla and other cars. It could be auto-pilot or driver assist. The auto-pilot can be totally driverless except for there is no regulations yet on the matter and car manufacturers are being cautious with the liability issues.

This is useful to us who drive long distance. And for me because I want to go sightseeing which is not possible when my full attention is into driving.

Actually no, there are no self driving cars.

There are people in the industry that think it's a short period of time, like a couple of years away. Me personally, I think it's over a decade or more away.

[Bumpyroad]

Lwiddis wrote:
The future like it or not.

I surely don't plan on living that long myself.
bumpy

[Yosemite_Sam1]

It's already available on Tesla and other cars. It could be auto-pilot or driver assist. The auto-pilot can be totally driverless except for there is no regulations yet on the matter and car manufacturers are being cautious with the liability issues.

This is useful to us who drive long distance. And for me because I want to go sightseeing which is not possible when my full attention is into driving.

[way2roll]

I'm all for it. While I like to drive, I think the ability to be a passenger while my car - or even Motorhome take me to my destination, like a train, would be pretty enjoyable.

[Lwiddis]

The future like it or not.

[noteven]

pianotuna wrote:
Interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8PR5wKT9VA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0zI4Duqb5UVoemMm7-sLCUC803Rj...

Ya it is.

[noteven]

I’m working on a autum...atana...autatim...self driving towed...you’ll be able to program in your next boondocking spot, slap it on the ass, and it’ll meet you there...

And a self driving camper - same idea - so you can ride your motorsickle and not have to drive the lumbering rv rig ...

[gbopp]

What's next, self drinking beer? Where does this madness end? :B

[ScottG]

Eventually they'll go to self-camping and I wont have to show up at all.