Apple certainly weighs on us all.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

I'm fairly certain a multi-processor can handle driving and texting at the same time. Humans can't.

Exactly.
It makes no sense to me that autonomous cars could somehow be more dangerous. It doesn't get any more dangerous than millions of humans whizzing around being humans in control of high-speed death-traps. The "buggiest" autonomous system imaginable couldn't possibly kill more people than sleepy, drunken, careless, reckless, incompetent, fallible human drivers could.

[crane3]

I'm more curious how a "really" driverless car will work, especially the ones without controls. How does the driverless car decide to stop at a roadside stand to get pistachios before proceeding to the destination? or more how does the driverless stop or know that it need to stop at the nearest place for a "potty" stop?

Going from point A to point B directly is easy but how about deciding to stop at a drive-thru to get a burger &/or coffee when not programmed to do so? How does the driverless car change the route when a passenger decides to check into a property along the way. There are multiple reasons that a person decide to change the direct route to the destination. Some may say to use a smartphone which I don't have to get the driverless car to go another way but that is "driving" the driverless car. No such thing as a fully driverless car especially the ones without car controls as proposed.

Having to take blood pressure medications play hell with my traveling & do wonder if other people will have the same problems with "driverless" cars.

[Apache]

I would love a driverless car. It would give me a lot more time to read.
Apache

[Phogg]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

I'm fairly certain a multi-processor can handle driving and texting at the same time. Humans can't.

Show me your real life multi-processor driving at the speed limit through Dallas at the speed limit on a Friday at five thirty PM. It must not creep below the speed limit, nor halt motionless when traffic should be moving.

Just to make it like routinely handled human driving, it should be August and the cooling system needs work that the owner can't afford (son broke his collarbone in a baseball game) to fix yet. The car may need to be turned off if there is a long wait at intersections. Best stick to the freeways even though there is so much construction at the big interchanges.

You can skip the whole texting thing.

The economy is bad, the car owner has had to go from a quality control position to a telemarketing job until something else comes up, so your system will need to be something a driver making twenty-five thousand a year can buy and maintain (unless your ultimate goal is to reserve travel to the wealthy only in which case you need to be honest about that) and must work in all weather while commuting twenty three miles each way.

I was kind, in that I did not set my real world test in Joplin, Tulsa, or Witchita. In those places frozen precipitation partially melts during the winter days and refreezes in the evenings and through the night. Much of the driving for nine-to-fivers is done on ice in heavy traffic.

Let's see this system.

[jhowell]

I think that it will be a very long time before we see self-driving cars without manual controls.

For reasons of liability the human driver is ultimately responsible for vehicle safety and needs to be ready to take back control at any time to avoid accidents. I believe that cars will display a statement to that effect and the driver will need to agree to this before self-driving mode can be engaged. Despite this I foresee that since the auto manufacturer has big pockets they will be sued whenever an accident occurs, regardless of whether or not the accident was unavoidable even if a person was driving.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I'd only be afraid of autonomous cars if they were forced to share the road with the current crop of incompetent, self-involved, risk-taking, moronic humans who use it.

QFT!

Autonomous cars will only work if all cars on the road are autonomous. Computers are predictable, humans most certainly are not.

Originally Posted by Apache

I would love a driverless car. It would give me a lot more time to read.
Apache

That's been my dream ever since I got my driver's license
Then people say: but you can take the train/bus! To which my answer is: I'd have to spend more time getting to a bus/train station from home and from a bus/train station to my work and vice versa than I'd spend driving from home to my work. So, that'd mean even less time reading, as reading in a packed bus/train isn't a pleasure either (I usually had an audiobook when I still went by train)

[Alohamora]

Originally Posted by Apache

I would love a driverless car. It would give me a lot more time to read.
Apache

I'll stick to audiobooks, tyvm.

The idea of driverless cars scares me. Although maybe in 30 years or so, if I'm too old to drive myself, I'll be more open to the idea.

The biggest problem I see is how they'll ever be able to deal with bad weather, especially snow.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Alpha o

If you mean the top opening over the whole front -- my 67 Spitfire opened that way. I used to sit on a tire to change the oil. I can think of other imported cars that did same. Apple going to ban them?

On the other post - some people like Android and some like nothing. I don't need a car chattering at me. I'd prefer to pay attention to the road visually.

At times, Gail drives us nuts. Gail is our GPS.