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My biggest worry is attempted murder and sabotage. I would love to see this technology improve our society, but since all this is electronic, a hacker can kill someone with an alibi.
Well, somebody can still plant an explosion on your car, tied to your engine. There will always be bad people and bad things will always happen it doesn't matter whether you use a software or a physical object.
George Lubaretsi No shit Sherlock. "Let's ban using landmines in warfare so they can't accidentally kill innocents when the war is over!" And then an idiot replies "But they can still kill innocent people with guns and bombs" *facewall*
I have heard so many people talk about how quickly we will enbrace self deiving cars becuase of the money in it even thougg we have not even enbraced self service checkouts
I love Google for this - the actual safety driver on the video not an actor, great! I am really looking forward to the production model that has the sensors hidden and that looks normal, this is going to be a huge step
Once something syncs in it becomes normal. Look at RUclips for example. Its has changed in design many time. people often get mad but after you get used to it, it becomes normal.
Imagine how great it would be to just call your car ,with a synchronised phone, to come and pick you up. When these are out, I will sympathise with taxi drivers, or lack thereof.
It's an amazing technology. Automated cars will enable new jobs for the service of those cars. The driving jobs might go away, but there will be more administration and maintenance jobs for those cars, because they will be in use 24/7.
epSos.de Yeah tell that to the majority of people who are not technically inclined....NOT EVERYONE CAN LEARN TO BE A MECHANIC....think next time before you make stupid comments...
Imagine all the time and resources this would save! I think once all cars are driverless it would save trillions of dollars in the US alone- 1-Insurance costs will plummet because of the accident avoidness software 2- Car costs will plummet because they will no longer need all the safety features I.e reinforced steel , airbags.... 3- Fuel efficiency will go up due to the lighter cars 4- Traffic jams will be a thing of the past thus increasing fuel efficiency and productivity 5- Lives saved :D
and you wouldn't need to pick up your children from school ever again, the car would go on its own and bring them to you, or maybe your wife, she would go to the market with the car without needing a driver, that is a big Plus.
no, I'm talking about the general case, most car drivers are married, and most of the married people have childrens, and in these cases google car can be a big enhancement in their life ,,, when I said "you" I meant (in general)
I hope the cars will come with modes we can select at least like "Aggressive", "Depressed", "Reckless", "Granny", "Good Guy", "Lead Foot" and "Random Error".
ok, a human can spot black ice on the road, if it's 32deg or less outside and road becomes kid of shiny and slow down, can Google car do identical and slow down?
+Wojciech Zgodowski Actually most humans can NOT spot black ice, which is why it has that name (it blends into the black asphalt). As for temperature, yes the cars can certainly have an onboard thermometer. If it rains with temp
Bob Joe but then only that person will be judged but if the self driving does something like this then the reputation of all self driving cars will be hurt :)
duwiDota Even if this does happen, how many human drivers run into people every day? Even if a self driving car kills a person daily, this is far, far fewer deaths than human drivers cause. Besides, so far they've proven to be far safer and more courteous than any human driver has been.
This is uncommon, but how does it handle manual traffic direction: both by police at an intersection or by construction workers on a single lane section?
Like this is going to be so cool. Imagine just being able to send your car places without even having to drive it. No more moms having to drop their kids off at school, and we won't need to worry about airport parking lots. I can't wait for the future.
Alex Wohlbruck you do realize only like 1% of the population would be able to afford this right. if its coming out in 2020 regular people wont get it until like 2050
Troll God Self driving cars won't very likely be something the average person goes out and buys. Companies like Uber will have fleets of them, and they'll constantly be ferrying people around like robotic taxis. You'll just call one up on your phone with an app. Self driving long haul trucks will be a thing very quickly too. They might be more expensive initially, but factor in truck driver wages and benefits like health coverage and suddenly the self driving option looks a lot cheaper.
corgrath No, because not only cars uses that information. Cyclists, barack osama and walkers are using these signs too to make up their choises when passing roads. Which i hope electronics will NEVER do for us in future. (I included a joke, dont ¨cri evri tiem¨ over it)
When I drive into town I often have to avoid squirrels and other animals that run into the road. I doubt your product can even come close to doing that.
I LOVE THIS!!!! I cant wait for this to become mainstream. This would put alot of cab drivers out of work but imagine no insurance! you could even nap on your way to work!
Where? Knowing google they would probably charge you the fucking electric bill for the production plant along with a 10% mileage tax so their CEO can get a raise.
Jack Daniels Well, I don't have 100% proof, but this article says that safety director for Google’s self-driving car program Ron Medford said so. bgr.com/2014/05/20/google-self-driving-cars-and-tickets/
Excited for this, to say the least. I wonder if it's already completely functional at night. I also wonder how it adjusts for weather conditions, like rain and snow. Does it acknowledge standing water ahead and slow to avoid hydroplaning?
Well, for now, they are using a vehicle that can easily be maneuvered by human interference. If they decide to go with something without a steering wheel- then the complications begin, and that question will have to be answered with something having to be built into the vehicle in case the laser breaks down and so on.
Before the vehicle would go into production, there would be redundancy built into the critical systems, i.e. multiple sensors, backup battery power, extra computers.
There is already several other forms of data that get filtered to get an accurate pose estimate, that I know they are using: 1. Camera tracking can be used to observe obstacles without the LIDAR using stereo and optical flow. 2. GPS can be used to navigate off of the road, mixed with previously learned data of the surroundings of the car, interpolated over time given previous velocities and up-to-date camera data. 3. Human intervention is always an option.
i saw this demo car, years a ago in test drive's in mtv view Ca. now i know what they were doing, with no hands on the wheel , thanks GOOGLE for all your hard WORKERS they are making great changes ...
the goverment really couldn't help less with this. it is all google. and if this gets implemented globally, it will save thousands of lives a year and make those long rides across the country bearable. Do you really want to give that up for some fun?
it will take at least a hundred years from now to be able to fully implement something like this, because this cars will be inferior to human drivers in all cases except when there isn't a single human driver on the road. Those cars are and will forever be unable to prevent accidents better than humans and their instincts. You say they are safer, but they've driven a million miles and got into about 30 accidents and 11 of them were the car's fault, but 10 were saved by the humans in those cars. That's about the life-long driving career of 2 average drivers and very few people actually crash 15 times in their life. Even if you count the "human-caused crashes", 17, it's still too much. I'm willing to bet most of the crashes would've been prevented with a human at the wheel instead of this software. It's gonna take at least another 10 years to make this viable, and then about half a century to a century to pass all legal hurdles and actually convince people to buy it. And it takes just a couple crashes to destroy people's trust hold this back an entire generation. But yeah, the dream is that if those are the only cars on the road they're probably not going to crash into each other, they could be driving in excess of 400 km/h on motorways safely. Maybe even 500 if the technology will be up to it. Very few people alive will actually be there to see it, though.
A hundred years from now? Bro, this shit is happening RIGHT NOW. I wouldn't be surprised if self driving cars become very popular after being proven safe. "You say they are safer, but they've driven a million miles and got into about 30 accidents and 11 of them were the car's fault, but 10 were saved by the humans in those cars" Source? Again, you're underestimating the timeline of adoption for them. I know for a fast that sometime in my life, I'll be buying one. Probably used though. :p
Spacey ace AND they aren't even perfected yet. When cars are self driving, you should still have a manual option to drive yourself if you want, but you don't have to stay alert for 16 hours on end when you are driving across the country. And you are right, it IS happening now! Look at the teslas slowly perfecting their autopilot and nobody is complaining. A few decades from now your car will suck if it can't drive itself and needs a flammable gas to run on.
Commenterguy221 This is true. And a machine is able to apply a rigid protocol like the highway code, in all the situations : it's not submit to stress, tiredness or distraction. It can optimize the parameters of the car to be more efficient and reduce pollution more precisely than a human... it's a fact.
But there is 1 probleme ! Cyclist are sometimes not doing there hands signals when there turning. So what will the Google Car do if a Cyclist turns but without doing his hand signal ?
+ling ning I believe it is still early to run tests on those conditions. First they need to perfect the driving, location, identification and other systems as much as possible. Only when the car is ready to deal with regular weather and driving conditions by itself it should move on to ice and snow. Because then it should be easier to adapt the software to understand the new conditions and thus, make the car/computer understand that the things it already knows shall be applied slightly differently on the new conditions. Gotta take one step at a time, you know. It's like walking. First you learn to walk and then you learn to run. I'm pretty sure it would be very impractical for the engineers to "teach" the car both things at the same time.
99billion dollar question? If we had all the cars in the bay area with this system will the traffic improve 80% for better or would it be worse since all the car would be obeying all traffic laws. do they make this in 5 speed?
I would imagine traffic would improve dramatically. How many times have you been held up by some idiot who didn't go when they could have, or waited 3 seconds on a green light before moving because they weren't looking, a computer will make no such mistake.
I'm super siked about self-driving cars. My main concern right now, and one that I wish we'd see addressed at least once in a google press release or video, is the issue of inclement weather, especially snow, and the few cases when the car will have to drive on backroads. Are these cars only practical for highway and city driving? and only in cities where there is little to no snow in the winter? I'm sure being based in sunny california puts these things out of mind sometimes, but they are probably the main reason that self-driving cars are not close to being the mainstream mode of transport yet, and not for years unfortunately. I live in Canada, and I'm curious to know how it would handle driving conditions here in some of our smaller towns and rural backroads, where google maps information is often badly out of date. How does it handle potholes? Just this summer I was using an old dirt road, riddled with potholes, to drive to a lakeside cabin my family sometimes uses in the summer. In the future we'd certainly want to use our self-driving car to get us there. One of the most dangerous side effects of self-driving cars is that someone who regularly uses self-driving cars will be without most of the driving experience he needs to navigate situations the car can't do on it's own. How do you know how to drive on snow and ice if you can't even drive on plain asphalt anymore? Perhaps snow can be dealt with in some way, but I think I should restate the importance of considering smaller more suburban towns, because I know from growing up in one, that everyone drive and everyone drives a car. In the city, more people take public transit or bike or walk, but in a town like mine, where things are spread out and public transport is limited, something like a self-driving car would be a huge asset.
will it recognize an empty paper bag on 80mph highway after highway curbs to the right, will it slam it's brakes and avoid hitting the paper bag? now 80k lbs is getting into that curved highway, not enough braking power to stop such waight. and there's a fataliy.
I'm sorry, but who doesn't like to drive their own car? I would hate not being able to drive my own car. If you're really that lazy, or uncomfortable with driving, using public transit or Uber would be much more affordable and better alternatives (and you don't even have to look at the road). I'm sorry, but the self driving car isn't nearly as valuable or desired as a hybrid or all electric car (or even better yet a solar charged electric car). That is the kind of green technology Google should be invested in, within the car industry (something more revoluntary and life changing). This self driving cars seems like a waste of investment on Google's end. It's just not a necessity or something that people need, it's just a quick frill that will likely not be desired by the mainstream unless you offer it as a cheap addon to current cars (a few hundred dolllars not the thousands that Google is aiming for). I just can't seem many of these cars being sold, unless they're very cheap (which wouldn't get the ton of money they've invested in this technology).
kill me please , they drive too slow to help traffic, they'll likely be slowing it down. The car always drives on the safe, slow side and drive too slow. In St Louis or most major cities, if you're driving the speed limit during rush hour, you're impeding traffic.
+Nathan Daniels what if a disabled person wants to drive a car but or a blind person wants to get to point A 2 B. Or if you want to drive through the night but your too tired to do so. what if your injured and cant drive and the car can do it for you. The google car can even prevent get road rage.. or causes injury if a drunk person is behind the steering wheel. It can even drop your kid of at school and pick them up.
lol Nathan, I agree with u, I love driving my g35, but not going to lie, every other week I drive to Toronto, it's 3 half hours away, and I come back Sunday at 10 pm, man I'm usually exhausted and can't keep my eyes open for 3 half hours, lol this comes handy, id only use it for road trips
+Nathan Daniels It's not about being lazy, it's about preventing people from dying due to human error. People just aren't efficient drivers, no matter how you try to justify it.
Imagine the military applications self flying jets, no need to worry about fear or confusion slowing down reaction speed. And the precision would be off the charts.
blackdiamond Yes. There's a video of it driving a blind man through taco bell for some tacos. It handled the drive through and pulling up to the windows just fine :D
would a $10 spray paint can be able to blind all cameras and sensors on the car?, and since not computer is save from hackers, will this car be hacker proof?
And this is a car for how many million dollars? Seriously!? Is that what Google belive most people have LOL. These cars is a waste of money for the company because they are super ridiculously expensive so they will barely manage to get one sold. It's a nice thought though but they really need to sell it like milk to turn the risks and stats around to really have done the humanity a service sort of.
It's based on trickle down technology. When certain technologies become available in vehicles, they start out costing a lot. As more time goes by and more cars are made with that technology, price drops accordingly. It will b very expensive at first, but will become more affordable in due time.
Google can afford to sell at a loss, all they want is for you to use their services so they can serve ads. Their only objective is to stay relevant forever. As long as they are the #1 search provider and serve ads, they have billions of money to spend to stay #1. Nest, google glass, google car, chromecast, android, chrome, gmail, google fiber, they all serve one purpose: make sure customers keep using google.
You probably wouldn't need a licence at all if it was fully autonomous. much like getting a taxi. Also the car would have to get a licence instead of the passenger
To all the people claiming this car is just another excuse for people to be lazy, claiming it's another step towards the robot-ification of America, the coming of the end times, etc: I've been extremely sight disabled since birth. While I legally can get a driver's license, I've found many situations when it would simply not be safe for me to do so. I'm 21 years old and feel trapped, degraded, like a second-class person because I don't have a vehicle and have to rely on other people to get me places. While this technology might yet still be in it's infancy, self-driving cars might just be a life-changing advancement for people like me. It would open up the world in a way I've yet to experience, and would give me the confidence I need to progress in life. So before you start spouting off about how we're getting lazier as a people, and more reliant on technology, think about those of us who are trapped in a two or three mile wide bubble because of limitations we have no control over. For the average person, a trip to the grocery store is a half-hour long affair that most don't give a second thought to. For me? It's a two-hour long commute, and at the end of it I have to decide what I can and cannot buy because I have to carry all of it back. "Well what about buses and other public transportation?" I live in an area where these don't exist. If I want to get to a doctor's appointment or other necessary event, I either have to get a friend to drive me, or walk the six miles there and back. Are self-driving cars and similar technologies entirely without fault? No, of course not. But for people like me who know what it's like to put off buying essential items like food, soap, clothes, etc because it's impossible for us to get to the store (icy roads, construction, you get the idea) this is truly a step towards leading a fulfilling life, one I could almost consider "normal". So please, take that into consideration before you try to take away what might be someone's last hope of a happy life.
Blind Guy Vaping --- I'm not blind but I'm the type of person who never learned to drive due to severe panic attacks. I just see this as Knight Rider becoming real.
If you look closely, theres a lot of flaws. So it doesn't render cars across an intersection that it might have to stop for because it's speeding at 60mph? Really ti doesn't load cars across the intersection, or it doesn't load the slow sign. It doesn't load the van about to turn into the road at 0:58 . These cars will need a little more work, but besides that stuff it looks cool.
Compared to driving, it's a godsend. Too many imbeciles, technophiles, and all around inattentive, incompetent people drive, but lack appropriate reaction times, and induce havoc. My praise ends there. An autopilot vehicle is still a vehicle, and as such, is still unhealthy to utilize in excess. Looking back, we can easily see the problems caused by overreliance on cars. Laying down enough asphalt to make our landscape a desert; cars being continuously manufactured, shipped, and bought to the point they outnumber people, defeating the point of cars, to get us around; pollution which threatens public health, including those who aren't making it; constant wars and pillaging for something that is not biologically imperative like petrol and stealing what is not ours; mental crutch, out of habit, folks will drive even when they are going someplace well within walking distance, then wonder why they are out of shape; reinforces unhealthy materialistic pursuits. As a taxi, this could reduce or stabilize the overall number of cars on the road. If cities buy it first and run the bus lines with it, we might wean ourselves off of cars before we get further hooked. Maybe we can remove unneeded freeways and parking lots and place plants in their place. Or let them fall into disrepair save two lanes. Let cars be produced only as is needed to get cargo or people around, not to drive demand. Indefinite growth is not sustainable.
+TheNotverysocial People have ALWAYS owned cars & used them to travel down roads to remote destinations......private ownership is not a new idea. And today's pollution is certainly a lot less than when cars were pulled by horses. There was a time in the 1800s when you could SMELL New York and other cities, before you could see them, because the horse manure clogged the streets. The invention of the horseless car eliminated that problem .
electrictroy2010 Private ownership is highly overrated. Buses, taxis and trains reduce the existing pollution from too many vehicles in operation. Having a tendency to drive even when walking would suffice is clear evidence of a lack of patience. The express market around the corner is not across the road or even a block away, yet many still see fit to drive. Where did that get us? Obesity, diabetes, a carcinogenic atmosphere. I have too much patience to bother myself with a car. I simply won't do it. If you think owning and driving an automobile is a bare essential to life, get out of metropolis/suburbia and go to the sticks where you belong, motor enthusiast. We have too much pollution in cities as it is now without bringing more cars into them. Buses, cabs and trains make economical/ecological sense. We don't need more cars unless we all live somewhere it gets pitch dark at night. If there is light when it gets dark whether you turn them on or not, you can live without one. As for our beloved Equinn friends, let them take care of their own affairs as they have done for thousands of years. They do not need us any more than we need them. They make good friends and companions, but we biologically do not need each other, and we never have.
+TheNotverysocial BUSES and trains only average 25 people-miles/gallon of fuel burned. That's because they often run empty or near-empty (according to the US DOT that tracks these things). In contrast a Prius averages 50 MPG. If it's a 2 person carpool, then it averages 100 people-miles/gallon. The Prius and other high MPG cars are "less polluting" than the 25 average for buses/trains .
This is bullshit I will never ever own one of these. Seems like such a pointless technology. What are people too lazy to give their attention to driving these days? They really need to sit there and watch the car drive itself? And I'm not sure it is possible to invent any technology that is as good at judgement as our brains. So I doubt there will be fewer accidents and if there are I seriously doubt it will be significant.
I honestly don't see any advances in a self driving car. It's an undeniable fact that technology managed to made us dumber lazier and more antisocial from one another now more than ever, we have become the perfect slaves of the system and we have financed our own enslavement from the very beginning to this very end !
It's not a advance in itself for the humanity but like airplane they are driven by auto-pilot and it's more safe than if a human were at the control 100% of the time trying to do everything. What it would bring is, if you are tired, sick or whatever, the auto-pilot will drive you safe with the other car controled with an auto-pilot since they would speak to each other. By the if you become an extansion of a tool/technology, you are doing something wrong. Like in some branch of art, if the program on your pc determine the limit of what you can do... You shouldn't be the extension of it neither should it decide your limit. So far I haven't see human becoming an extension of a tools, maybe when their will be robots enslaving human.. or robots using human as their extansion. Also dumber and lazier.. well.. some of the technology helped us to evoluate some didn't not. As for a self driving car.. it will be safer than a human because hey.. lots of us are too selfish, stupid, drive while too tired, drunk and etc.. sp we cause accidents.
Instead of the hammer being one of our tools, one of our extensions, one of the many other tools, to build a house for yourself - we have become the extension of the hammer. Specialization: Instead of hammering, sawing, measuring, designing; we merely hammer. Or merely type on a keyboard. The hammer is not anymore a extension of your arm, but rather the arm has become the tool for the hammer. Get it.
What if there is an accident or contruction site and someone is waving and stopping cars to go by , will the car read the police officer or anyones hand signals ?
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They should add an I'm Feeling Lucky option,where it drives you to an random location
What if it drives you off a cliff?
3 years later, Tesla is now adding that to their next update :)
Oooo
Does it anticipate a race if the car next to you revs the engine?
I suppose Google cars come with Chrome rims....
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Hahah
I love seeing the self-driving cars around town while i'm biking. The safety drivers are always super nice and smile at me.
So will a self driving car pull over for cop sirens or will it drive faster and say fuck the police?
that's funny, what would a self-driving car do to get pulled over in the first place?
lol
But why would police ask a robot car to stop because it wouldn't have done anything wrong...
Exactly especially if it's made in China.
thats funny
For someone that has epilepsy and can't drive this makes me so happy and hopeful! Thanks Google
My biggest worry is attempted murder and sabotage. I would love to see this technology improve our society, but since all this is electronic, a hacker can kill someone with an alibi.
You're right. The more technology, the lesser safety from hackers.
Well, somebody can still plant an explosion on your car, tied to your engine. There will always be bad people and bad things will always happen it doesn't matter whether you use a software or a physical object.
George Lubaretsi No shit Sherlock. "Let's ban using landmines in warfare so they can't accidentally kill innocents when the war is over!" And then an idiot replies "But they can still kill innocent people with guns and bombs" *facewall*
I have heard so many people talk about how quickly we will enbrace self deiving cars becuase of the money in it even thougg we have not even enbraced self service checkouts
Leonell Valderama Nice straw man argument. That's not even close to the same thing.
Does this mean that maybe you could call your car and it could come and pick you up instead of paying for a taxi?
Damn I hope so...
+Eric Miret rip taxi companies...
+Eric Miret true. i hoped the robots can just kill us all.
I love Google for this - the actual safety driver on the video not an actor, great! I am really looking forward to the production model that has the sensors hidden and that looks normal, this is going to be a huge step
I can't wait for these to roll out in the future. It is really exciting to see how far we have come from horses to self driving machines.
Once something syncs in it becomes normal. Look at RUclips for example. Its has changed in design many time. people often get mad but after you get used to it, it becomes normal.
Heard about SDC as far back as the 80's. I NEVER thought I'd see this in my lifetime. And here it is. wow.
Imagine how great it would be to just call your car ,with a synchronised phone, to come and pick you up. When these are out, I will sympathise with taxi drivers, or lack thereof.
and imagine... when your phone is out of battery...
Amrit Singh you charge it up again! #logic
If you don't have a smartphone how could afford a smart(not the brand) car
Exactly mini cooper and, if you don't have a smartphone... Why?
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Wow. I remember when this was a massive breakthrough. Look where we’re at now!
It's an amazing technology. Automated cars will enable new jobs for the service of those cars. The driving jobs might go away, but there will be more administration and maintenance jobs for those cars, because they will be in use 24/7.
epSos.de Yeah tell that to the majority of people who are not technically inclined....NOT EVERYONE CAN LEARN TO BE A MECHANIC....think next time before you make stupid comments...
Open the passenger door HAL...Sorry Dave,I'm afraid I can't do that.
*car rides off a cliff and into a sunset, faint screams are heard but ignored*
+Adnan Bhuiyan IM DED.
The Butler Did It Haha EXACTLY!! That was a funny version of what would happen, but that still could!
The Butler Did It ---- Fuck you, Michael. Get out and walk.
lol, yeah, I'm not programmed to complete that task... But it my mom, I'm sorry, whats a mom...
So when it says it reacts to gestures. Does that mean when a guy flips you off then the car runs him over many times
You made my day XD
will it have an asshole mode for BMW drivers?
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shut yo broke ass up
+Camo Jacket lol IKR
I was gonna ask the same thing for Mini Cooper's.. I almost squashed some lady when she stole my parking spot acting like a bitch.
Imagine all the time and resources this would save! I think once all cars are driverless it would save trillions of dollars in the US alone- 1-Insurance costs will plummet because of the accident avoidness software 2- Car costs will plummet because they will no longer need all the safety features I.e reinforced steel , airbags.... 3- Fuel efficiency will go up due to the lighter cars 4- Traffic jams will be a thing of the past thus increasing fuel efficiency and productivity 5- Lives saved :D
Emma S didn t you hear that, they are still improving the car to make it safer? also i couldn t careless about insurance agents losing their job.
and you wouldn't need to pick up your children from school ever again, the car would go on its own and bring them to you, or maybe your wife, she would go to the market with the car without needing a driver, that is a big Plus.
othman alazzam do I know you?
no, I'm talking about the general case, most car drivers are married, and most of the married people have childrens, and in these cases google car can be a big enhancement in their life ,,, when I said "you" I meant (in general)
othman alazzam Not true, I prefer being in control. I think its funny that you would want a machine dictating you.
This car is good for commuters who have to spend over an hour to get to their work. Can't wait for this to come out!
I hope the cars will come with modes we can select at least like "Aggressive", "Depressed", "Reckless", "Granny", "Good Guy", "Lead Foot" and "Random Error".
ok, a human can spot black ice on the road, if it's 32deg or less outside and road becomes kid of shiny and slow down, can Google car do identical and slow down?
+Wojciech Zgodowski no not yet. This technology is just getting started and not ready to go live yet.
+Wojciech Zgodowski Actually most humans can NOT spot black ice, which is why it has that name (it blends into the black asphalt). As for temperature, yes the cars can certainly have an onboard thermometer. If it rains with temp
It's all fun and games until the computer malfunctions and slams into a 10-year old.
Just like the movie Demolition Man right?
duwiDota Humans are much more likely to malfunction and slam into 10-year-olds than computers.
Bob Joe but then only that person will be judged but if the self driving does something like this then the reputation of all self driving cars will be hurt :)
***** where did you see this information?
duwiDota Even if this does happen, how many human drivers run into people every day? Even if a self driving car kills a person daily, this is far, far fewer deaths than human drivers cause. Besides, so far they've proven to be far safer and more courteous than any human driver has been.
Yes, Very Good. Looking forward to seeing this technology available to the public late this decade.
This is uncommon, but how does it handle manual traffic direction: both by police at an intersection or by construction workers on a single lane section?
It would probably use the same technology that senses cyclists' hand signals or cones and act accordingly.
good idea
Like this is going to be so cool. Imagine just being able to send your car places without even having to drive it. No more moms having to drop their kids off at school, and we won't need to worry about airport parking lots. I can't wait for the future.
Imagine having a few too may cocktails at the bar ... no problemo !
No more fun driving manual. It'll be a nightmare :(
Alex Wohlbruck you do realize only like 1% of the population would be able to afford this right. if its coming out in 2020 regular people wont get it until like 2050
Troll God Self driving cars won't very likely be something the average person goes out and buys. Companies like Uber will have fleets of them, and they'll constantly be ferrying people around like robotic taxis. You'll just call one up on your phone with an app.
Self driving long haul trucks will be a thing very quickly too. They might be more expensive initially, but factor in truck driver wages and benefits like health coverage and suddenly the self driving option looks a lot cheaper.
"How could they expect families on welfare to buy a new self driving car?" Take your broke ass to the bus station and wait for the self driving bus.
Who was the man that said "know what? I'm too fucking lazy to press down on a gas pedal" at a google board meeting?
2020....5 years from now!!
Don't dissapoint us google! Mark your words!
2 years now...
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How about navigating with motorcycles? Does it recognize it as another vehicle in the road or maybe a bicycle?
imagine never paying car insurance again because it would be the companies fault. Also you could take all road signs off the roads.
The computer still had to pay attention to the road signs...
***** Well, inst better that, that information is stored in a database instead of a physical metal plate?
corgrath No, because not only cars uses that information. Cyclists, barack osama and walkers are using these signs too to make up their choises when passing roads. Which i hope electronics will NEVER do for us in future.
(I included a joke, dont ¨cri evri tiem¨ over it)
Not everyone will have the luxury of a self driving car, manually driven cars will still be around.
Signs would be needed, it senses them and then listens to them
try India, China or Brasil roads, then you'll be ready....
try in Mississippi...
+Gallardo Santini Ukraine... i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/18/article-2280500-17A85DDF000005DC-486_634x353.jpg
Try driving in fucking Africa...
+Gallardo Santini American roads are full of holes!
Doney Hon guess its everywhere ... :) lack of maintenance... or budget cuts....
Let's hope this doesn't run on Windows.
+hdmat101 The computer in the prototype was running on Ubuntu
I would not want it to crash on me XD
Lol same if it does i hope it doesnt tell to upgrade
@Aarush Sinha absolutely nothing. Windows> chrome OS
Does this car can drive in foggy weather or when road is covered with snow?
When I drive into town I often have to avoid squirrels and other animals that run into the road. I doubt your product can even come close to doing that.
probably would detect them as pedestrians and thus stop when they are crossing
Yeah my guess is it has a heat sensors to detect any kind of beings not just humans.
well done Google - self driving car has always been my child hood dream - I hope this goes off and becomes the norm in the future!
No more accidents while playing Pokémon Go.
Grand stuff. Love the way the human driver keeps wanting to grab the wheel. :)
I hope in a 10-15 years almost all cars will be like this.
If you want a fun, go to racing laps or PC game + VR HMD.
the one in a billion type mind that actually dreamed up this brilliant idea along basic schematics & technologies deserve some credit
can it be pulled over by a cop and given a ticket or thats the end of work for traffic cops
This won't go past until more than 10 years until it's released
The only way this thing will become used by everyone is if it's extremely low-priced.
Can this machine work on bad conditions? Fog or rain for example
Microsoft should ask Google to help them fix the Kinect
Lol. So true.
The only way to fix the Kinect, is to DESTROY the Kinect.
Does the car recognize dogs and other animals? If one would suddenly unexpectedly run across the street would it hit the breaks?
This car is going to be seriously confused in Mumbai traffic xD
Ikr.
That is the objective. They must make it work everywhere in every scenario.
I LOVE THIS!!!! I cant wait for this to become mainstream. This would put alot of cab drivers out of work but imagine no insurance! you could even nap on your way to work!
I wonder who gets traffic tickets us or google
Google. They said so.
Where? Knowing google they would probably charge you the fucking electric bill for the production plant along with a 10% mileage tax so their CEO can get a raise.
Jack Daniels Well, I don't have 100% proof, but this article says that safety director for Google’s self-driving car program Ron Medford said so. bgr.com/2014/05/20/google-self-driving-cars-and-tickets/
It's designed to follow all the rules of the road. Billions of dollars in revenue lost all over the country, what impact will this have....Think!!!!!!
Excited for this, to say the least. I wonder if it's already completely functional at night. I also wonder how it adjusts for weather conditions, like rain and snow. Does it acknowledge standing water ahead and slow to avoid hydroplaning?
These are great questions, even for today's autonomous driving.
Have fun suing google, for road accidents.
Human traitor
How well does it test road conditions like slippery roads or potholes?
Now imagine this... on a Tesla car. The future is here, my friends. :D
This project is gonna make the world better and Better !
Thanks for the hard work !
Its not easy but once stared don't stop !
what would happen if....iii......iiifi...iffiiffff
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potato owner Most likely? A safety mechanism that is constantly polling the main software for responsiveness will halt the car immediately :)
Rip
404 is a HTTP error. Wtf are you talking about?
I wonder how it works with emergency vehicle flashing lights or in a police traffic stop? Will it automatically pull-over?
In the future, what if I enjoy driving, will I still be able to drive my own car?
There should be a manual driving mode.
***** But I want to drive
There should be a manual mode for all self-driving cars anyways, in case there's a malfunction.
Home of the Mad lol thx
Home of the Mad oh lol
Imagining this plus the solar road ways, seems like a huge step in terms of technology is just around the corner.
somehow make this car completly safe, and give it a clean energy source and i am bought
japan already made a water powered car
goodgalbadgal
Do you have a source on that? If it's true I'm really interested in learning more.
A car that runs on water man!!!
I'm highly skeptical of water powered vehicles. Hydrogen fuel cells maybe, but just water?
Convert a Tesla car into a Google autonomous car and you're all set :)
Don't need a drivers license anymore now with cars like this... Awesome!
Love it love it love it.
What happens if the sensor stops rotating or gets jammed? Is there a way for the vehicle to safely pull over without the laser?
Well, for now, they are using a vehicle that can easily be maneuvered by human interference. If they decide to go with something without a steering wheel- then the complications begin, and that question will have to be answered with something having to be built into the vehicle in case the laser breaks down and so on.
Before the vehicle would go into production, there would be redundancy built into the critical systems, i.e. multiple sensors, backup battery power, extra computers.
There is already several other forms of data that get filtered to get an accurate pose estimate, that I know they are using:
1. Camera tracking can be used to observe obstacles without the LIDAR using stereo and optical flow.
2. GPS can be used to navigate off of the road, mixed with previously learned data of the surroundings of the car, interpolated over time given previous velocities and up-to-date camera data.
3. Human intervention is always an option.
i need one now
I can drive but not very good..............
i saw this demo car, years a ago in test drive's in mtv view Ca. now i know what they were doing, with no hands on the wheel , thanks GOOGLE for all your hard WORKERS they are making great changes ...
It takes all the fun out of driving, Thanks Obama
the goverment really couldn't help less with this. it is all google. and if this gets implemented globally, it will save thousands of lives a year and make those long rides across the country bearable. Do you really want to give that up for some fun?
it will take at least a hundred years from now to be able to fully implement something like this, because this cars will be inferior to human drivers in all cases except when there isn't a single human driver on the road. Those cars are and will forever be unable to prevent accidents better than humans and their instincts.
You say they are safer, but they've driven a million miles and got into about 30 accidents and 11 of them were the car's fault, but 10 were saved by the humans in those cars. That's about the life-long driving career of 2 average drivers and very few people actually crash 15 times in their life. Even if you count the "human-caused crashes", 17, it's still too much. I'm willing to bet most of the crashes would've been prevented with a human at the wheel instead of this software.
It's gonna take at least another 10 years to make this viable, and then about half a century to a century to pass all legal hurdles and actually convince people to buy it. And it takes just a couple crashes to destroy people's trust hold this back an entire generation.
But yeah, the dream is that if those are the only cars on the road they're probably not going to crash into each other, they could be driving in excess of 400 km/h on motorways safely. Maybe even 500 if the technology will be up to it. Very few people alive will actually be there to see it, though.
A hundred years from now? Bro, this shit is happening RIGHT NOW. I wouldn't be surprised if self driving cars become very popular after being proven safe.
"You say they are safer, but they've driven a million miles and got into about 30 accidents and 11 of them were the car's fault, but 10 were saved by the humans in those cars" Source?
Again, you're underestimating the timeline of adoption for them. I know for a fast that sometime in my life, I'll be buying one. Probably used though. :p
Spacey ace AND they aren't even perfected yet. When cars are self driving, you should still have a manual option to drive yourself if you want, but you don't have to stay alert for 16 hours on end when you are driving across the country.
And you are right, it IS happening now! Look at the teslas slowly perfecting their autopilot and nobody is complaining. A few decades from now your car will suck if it can't drive itself and needs a flammable gas to run on.
I want do drive, millennials have are lazy fucking degenerates
How does the car respond to potholes, or bad roads or no roads at all. Does it have sensors to sense what is beneath ?
+Nakul Mohan If it can sense the direction of the road, it can sense flaws in the road.
I hope self-driving cars are around when I'm older so I don't have to get a driver's license.
AANickFan get one wtf
This is so cool. Remember KITT from Knight Rider, with the Auto Cruise Mode
The sensors in this car are such garbage compared to the human nervous system.
:O YOU JUST GOT TOLD BY A NON-HUMAN NERVES SYSTEM OF THE SCREEN YOU LOOKING AT LOL.
The nervous system doesn't watch the road ...
Zapk Looks at Road* ..Right.
It depends on the metric you judge them on, a human will never match the reaction time of a machine.
Commenterguy221 This is true. And a machine is able to apply a rigid protocol like the highway code, in all the situations : it's not submit to stress, tiredness or distraction. It can optimize the parameters of the car to be more efficient and reduce pollution more precisely than a human... it's a fact.
But there is 1 probleme ! Cyclist are sometimes not doing there hands signals when there turning. So what will the Google Car do if a Cyclist turns but without doing his hand signal ?
I would like to see this car deal with ice and snow , I think it is stupid they are trying to make this car, yet it seems untested in cold climates.
+ling ning I believe it is still early to run tests on those conditions. First they need to perfect the driving, location, identification and other systems as much as possible. Only when the car is ready to deal with regular weather and driving conditions by itself it should move on to ice and snow. Because then it should be easier to adapt the software to understand the new conditions and thus, make the car/computer understand that the things it already knows shall be applied slightly differently on the new conditions. Gotta take one step at a time, you know. It's like walking. First you learn to walk and then you learn to run. I'm pretty sure it would be very impractical for the engineers to "teach" the car both things at the same time.
Have you seen the robot dog on ice.
What about road construction and such where the GPS gets confused... Would the car just drive around in infinite circles?
No because they're trying to route you to a place, they'll follow the path through the area most likely
Thats why they dont rely on GPS.. they use sensors cause GPS sucks.
Its so amazing how can a car drive itself maybe in 2035 most of the cars will be driveless..
قران Bxhxjx That would be terrible bullshit. I want to be in control of my car.
I wish man was so lazy, most of this crap will never be implimented.
Ill use a 2013 car then
99billion dollar question? If we had all the cars in the bay area with this system will the traffic improve 80% for better or would it be worse since all the car would be obeying all traffic laws.
do they make this in 5 speed?
No.
I would imagine traffic would improve dramatically. How many times have you been held up by some idiot who didn't go when they could have, or waited 3 seconds on a green light before moving because they weren't looking, a computer will make no such mistake.
i rather have the cars we have now
I'm super siked about self-driving cars. My main concern right now, and one that I wish we'd see addressed at least once in a google press release or video, is the issue of inclement weather, especially snow, and the few cases when the car will have to drive on backroads. Are these cars only practical for highway and city driving? and only in cities where there is little to no snow in the winter?
I'm sure being based in sunny california puts these things out of mind sometimes, but they are probably the main reason that self-driving cars are not close to being the mainstream mode of transport yet, and not for years unfortunately.
I live in Canada, and I'm curious to know how it would handle driving conditions here in some of our smaller towns and rural backroads, where google maps information is often badly out of date.
How does it handle potholes? Just this summer I was using an old dirt road, riddled with potholes, to drive to a lakeside cabin my family sometimes uses in the summer. In the future we'd certainly want to use our self-driving car to get us there.
One of the most dangerous side effects of self-driving cars is that someone who regularly uses self-driving cars will be without most of the driving experience he needs to navigate situations the car can't do on it's own. How do you know how to drive on snow and ice if you can't even drive on plain asphalt anymore?
Perhaps snow can be dealt with in some way, but I think I should restate the importance of considering smaller more suburban towns, because I know from growing up in one, that everyone drive and everyone drives a car. In the city, more people take public transit or bike or walk, but in a town like mine, where things are spread out and public transport is limited, something like a self-driving car would be a huge asset.
Probably not well near other Self-Driving-Cars as the lazers may interrupt eachothers signals and crash your car
+RainAngel111 Eh hem, *psyched. ;)
Sky Obsession what?
Just correcting you like the utter grammar nazi I am. Sorry... D:
These condition requires critical thinking. Most of the time it will not be included in the programming...
So the world's first self-driving car was taught how to drive by a woman? Help us all. LOL
No, The 1st driving car was by a male. This is not the 1st driving car. Many companies are working on it though
Only on the internet.
Thanks for correcting my joke, ass hat.
Dave Kane If he was asian I would of agreed with you
Make sure they teach the car not to interrupt other automatic cars lazers
+James White If he was white, I would've agreed.
In case of the accident who gets the blame?
car owner or the company of the car?
probably the company
Now you can play candy crush
Xcool28 Oh goody i can't wait....your generation sucks by the way..lol
Nah. Super Nintendo.
will it recognize an empty paper bag on 80mph highway after highway curbs to the right, will it slam it's brakes and avoid hitting the paper bag? now 80k lbs is getting into that curved highway, not enough braking power to stop such waight. and there's a fataliy.
I'm sorry, but who doesn't like to drive their own car? I would hate not being able to drive my own car. If you're really that lazy, or uncomfortable with driving, using public transit or Uber would be much more affordable and better alternatives (and you don't even have to look at the road). I'm sorry, but the self driving car isn't nearly as valuable or desired as a hybrid or all electric car (or even better yet a solar charged electric car). That is the kind of green technology Google should be invested in, within the car industry (something more revoluntary and life changing). This self driving cars seems like a waste of investment on Google's end. It's just not a necessity or something that people need, it's just a quick frill that will likely not be desired by the mainstream unless you offer it as a cheap addon to current cars (a few hundred dolllars not the thousands that Google is aiming for). I just can't seem many of these cars being sold, unless they're very cheap (which wouldn't get the ton of money they've invested in this technology).
+Nathan Daniels Self driving cars will help traffic and lower deaths, it's not just about being lazy (For me it is).
kill me please , they drive too slow to help traffic, they'll likely be slowing it down. The car always drives on the safe, slow side and drive too slow. In St Louis or most major cities, if you're driving the speed limit during rush hour, you're impeding traffic.
+Nathan Daniels what if a disabled person wants to drive a car but or a blind person wants to get to point A 2 B. Or if you want to drive through the night but your too tired to do so. what if your injured and cant drive and the car can do it for you. The google car can even prevent get road rage.. or causes injury if a drunk person is behind the steering wheel. It can even drop your kid of at school and pick them up.
lol Nathan, I agree with u, I love driving my g35, but not going to lie, every other week I drive to Toronto, it's 3 half hours away, and I come back Sunday at 10 pm, man I'm usually exhausted and can't keep my eyes open for 3 half hours, lol this comes handy, id only use it for road trips
+Nathan Daniels It's not about being lazy, it's about preventing people from dying due to human error. People just aren't efficient drivers, no matter how you try to justify it.
टाटांनी भारतीय जनतेला अप्रतिम भेट दिली आहे! देविदास पवार
This technology is a motor head's nightmare. What if you just absolutely love driving?!
+bituco94
I don't know much about these but I think they allow for normal driving as well.
Ikr! I love driving! Manually! So if this did come out hopefully as you said^ it would also let you drive normally
Imagine the military applications self flying jets, no need to worry about fear or confusion slowing down reaction speed. And the precision would be off the charts.
Omg i dont know how to drive will this drive me
blackdiamond Yes. There's a video of it driving a blind man through taco bell for some tacos. It handled the drive through and pulling up to the windows just fine :D
How old are you ? 50% fully automonized by 2025 according to many experts. Altough a machine will probably make the taco at that point
James im 21 and scare to drive thats my biggest fear in life saw car accidents it scare me for life
+blackdiamond They say you come buy one as late as 2016 actually.
would a $10 spray paint can be able to blind all cameras and sensors on the car?, and since not computer is save from hackers, will this car be hacker proof?
And this is a car for how many million dollars? Seriously!? Is that what Google belive most people have LOL.
These cars is a waste of money for the company because they are super ridiculously expensive so they will barely manage to get one sold. It's a nice thought though but they really need to sell it like milk to turn the risks and stats around to really have done the humanity a service sort of.
yea, that's exactly what people were thinking back in the early days of computer. "no one on their right mind would want a computer in their homes"
As with all technology, it gets cheaper over time. A 16 gig flash drive cost me 60$ in 2009, you can get them for 8$ now.
Its not about selling it to people, Its about developing technology.
It's based on trickle down technology. When certain technologies become available in vehicles, they start out costing a lot. As more time goes by and more cars are made with that technology, price drops accordingly. It will b very expensive at first, but will become more affordable in due time.
Google can afford to sell at a loss, all they want is for you to use their services so they can serve ads. Their only objective is to stay relevant forever. As long as they are the #1 search provider and serve ads, they have billions of money to spend to stay #1. Nest, google glass, google car, chromecast, android, chrome, gmail, google fiber, they all serve one purpose: make sure customers keep using google.
Awsome car. I hope you get this car on the road so people can buy it
So do we need a different driver licenses for these? LoL..
You probably wouldn't need a licence at all if it was fully autonomous. much like getting a taxi. Also the car would have to get a licence instead of the passenger
+bAWSM
lol autonomous cars driving around a DMV with the evaluator in the car by himself
How much difference is there between this and tesla autopilot?
To all the people claiming this car is just another excuse for people to be lazy, claiming it's another step towards the robot-ification of America, the coming of the end times, etc: I've been extremely sight disabled since birth. While I legally can get a driver's license, I've found many situations when it would simply not be safe for me to do so. I'm 21 years old and feel trapped, degraded, like a second-class person because I don't have a vehicle and have to rely on other people to get me places.
While this technology might yet still be in it's infancy, self-driving cars might just be a life-changing advancement for people like me. It would open up the world in a way I've yet to experience, and would give me the confidence I need to progress in life. So before you start spouting off about how we're getting lazier as a people, and more reliant on technology, think about those of us who are trapped in a two or three mile wide bubble because of limitations we have no control over. For the average person, a trip to the grocery store is a half-hour long affair that most don't give a second thought to. For me? It's a two-hour long commute, and at the end of it I have to decide what I can and cannot buy because I have to carry all of it back. "Well what about buses and other public transportation?" I live in an area where these don't exist. If I want to get to a doctor's appointment or other necessary event, I either have to get a friend to drive me, or walk the six miles there and back.
Are self-driving cars and similar technologies entirely without fault? No, of course not. But for people like me who know what it's like to put off buying essential items like food, soap, clothes, etc because it's impossible for us to get to the store (icy roads, construction, you get the idea) this is truly a step towards leading a fulfilling life, one I could almost consider "normal". So please, take that into consideration before you try to take away what might be someone's last hope of a happy life.
Blind Guy Vaping --- I'm not blind but I'm the type of person who never learned to drive due to severe panic attacks. I just see this as Knight Rider becoming real.
i think its very nice and helpful when you can't even walk or drive home cause you are too wasted to it and taxis are expensive
The car didn't do a complete stop! 2:45
Canal PG I should rephrase what I said...it didn't do a 'full stop'.
mvckalel Does anyone make a full stop at stop signs anymore?
wolfclaw810 That's not the point, it's about safety...plus, giving machines 'human qualities' such as disregarding laws, isn't a good thing.
I was just joking, and besides its not even out yet so I'm sure its going through lots of testing still.
***** The car did NOT do a proper stop, it doesn't matter HER explanation or that people usually don't STOP at a STOP sign.
i used to be terrified of the idea of self-driving cars but now i’m actually kinda stoked!
This would be great for stupid drunk drivers, who claim they are ok to drive after 10 plus drinks.
If you look closely, theres a lot of flaws. So it doesn't render cars across an intersection that it might have to stop for because it's speeding at 60mph? Really ti doesn't load cars across the intersection, or it doesn't load the slow sign. It doesn't load the van about to turn into the road at 0:58 . These cars will need a little more work, but besides that stuff it looks cool.
Compared to driving, it's a godsend. Too many imbeciles, technophiles, and all around inattentive, incompetent people drive, but lack appropriate reaction times, and induce havoc. My praise ends there. An autopilot vehicle is still a vehicle, and as such, is still unhealthy to utilize in excess. Looking back, we can easily see the problems caused by overreliance on cars. Laying down enough asphalt to make our landscape a desert; cars being continuously manufactured, shipped, and bought to the point they outnumber people, defeating the point of cars, to get us around; pollution which threatens public health, including those who aren't making it; constant wars and pillaging for something that is not biologically imperative like petrol and stealing what is not ours; mental crutch, out of habit, folks will drive even when they are going someplace well within walking distance, then wonder why they are out of shape; reinforces unhealthy materialistic pursuits. As a taxi, this could reduce or stabilize the overall number of cars on the road. If cities buy it first and run the bus lines with it, we might wean ourselves off of cars before we get further hooked. Maybe we can remove unneeded freeways and parking lots and place plants in their place. Or let them fall into disrepair save two lanes. Let cars be produced only as is needed to get cargo or people around, not to drive demand. Indefinite growth is not sustainable.
+TheNotverysocial People have ALWAYS owned cars & used them to travel down roads to remote destinations......private ownership is not a new idea. And today's pollution is certainly a lot less than when cars were pulled by horses. There was a time in the 1800s when you could SMELL New York and other cities, before you could see them, because the horse manure clogged the streets. The invention of the horseless car eliminated that problem
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electrictroy2010
Private ownership is highly overrated. Buses, taxis and trains reduce the existing pollution from too many vehicles in operation. Having a tendency to drive even when walking would suffice is clear evidence of a lack of patience. The express market around the corner is not across the road or even a block away, yet many still see fit to drive. Where did that get us? Obesity, diabetes, a carcinogenic atmosphere. I have too much patience to bother myself with a car. I simply won't do it.
If you think owning and driving an automobile is a bare essential to life, get out of metropolis/suburbia and go to the sticks where you belong, motor enthusiast. We have too much pollution in cities as it is now without bringing more cars into them. Buses, cabs and trains make economical/ecological sense. We don't need more cars unless we all live somewhere it gets pitch dark at night. If there is light when it gets dark whether you turn them on or not, you can live without one. As for our beloved Equinn friends, let them take care of their own affairs as they have done for thousands of years. They do not need us any more than we need them. They make good friends and companions, but we biologically do not need each other, and we never have.
+TheNotverysocial BUSES and trains only average 25 people-miles/gallon of fuel burned. That's because they often run empty or near-empty (according to the US DOT that tracks these things). In contrast a Prius averages 50 MPG. If it's a 2 person carpool, then it averages 100 people-miles/gallon. The Prius and other high MPG cars are "less polluting" than the 25 average for buses/trains
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electrictroy2010
MMM-hmm. You will still never get me to buy a car, self driven or not. I will take a bus or taxi if they release it as such.
+TheNotverysocial Great writing! More people must realise this!
in a head on collision situation, let's say will it drive itself into a ditch to avoid fataliy?
self-driving cars would be great for sex.... who hasn't wanted a road-hummer at one point or another??
Theres two types of people
+DragonDebonaire ha ha
okay is this only for blind people or is it for vision impaired and where can they start making this.
This is bullshit I will never ever own one of these. Seems like such a pointless technology. What are people too lazy to give their attention to driving these days? They really need to sit there and watch the car drive itself? And I'm not sure it is possible to invent any technology that is as good at judgement as our brains. So I doubt there will be fewer accidents and if there are I seriously doubt it will be significant.
FalconGod717 --- I've wanted this since I was a kid watching Knight Rider.
What happens when 4 of these vehicles all come to a stop sign at the same time? I would love to see a video of this ...
They'll throw a dice, those with the higher number go first
I honestly don't see any advances in a self driving car. It's an undeniable fact that technology managed to made us dumber lazier and more antisocial from one another now more than ever, we have become the perfect slaves of the system and we have financed our own enslavement from the very beginning to this very end !
Instead of the tools and technology becoming the extension of our possibilities; we became the extension of the tools (specialized jobs).
OhFortunae :(
It's not a advance in itself for the humanity but like airplane they are driven by auto-pilot and it's more safe than if a human were at the control 100% of the time trying to do everything.
What it would bring is, if you are tired, sick or whatever, the auto-pilot will drive you safe with the other car controled with an auto-pilot since they would speak to each other.
By the if you become an extansion of a tool/technology, you are doing something wrong. Like in some branch of art, if the program on your pc determine the limit of what you can do... You shouldn't be the extension of it neither should it decide your limit.
So far I haven't see human becoming an extension of a tools, maybe when their will be robots enslaving human.. or robots using human as their extansion.
Also dumber and lazier.. well.. some of the technology helped us to evoluate some didn't not. As for a self driving car.. it will be safer than a human because hey.. lots of us are too selfish, stupid, drive while too tired, drunk and etc.. sp we cause accidents.
Instead of the hammer being one of our tools, one of our extensions, one of the many other tools, to build a house for yourself - we have become the extension of the hammer.
Specialization:
Instead of hammering, sawing, measuring, designing; we merely hammer. Or merely type on a keyboard.
The hammer is not anymore a extension of your arm, but rather the arm has become the tool for the hammer.
Get it.
OhFortunae Not really, you don't make sens..
What if there is an accident or contruction site and someone is waving and stopping cars to go by , will the car read the police officer or anyones hand signals ?
David Neilon Did you watch the video?