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If this happens, how will a middle aged man show his **** is bigger than the next guys?
......what?
If this happens, how will a middle aged man show his **** is bigger than the next guys?
......what?
Where would people keep their wallets?
As an applied mathematician and computer scientist, I am curious what percentage of the public would accept the conversion from using human-driven automobiles to self-driving automobiles. The necessary technology is clearly realistic. Let's assume, for the sake of simplicity, that the cost will be relatively the same. Here is just an initial list of benefits of my proposal:
Some of these even have benefits as a consequence, such as improved fuel efficiency as a result of fewer/no traffic jams. What support or opposition does anyone wish to provide?
- Prevention of DUI
- Prevention of accidents due to poor driving skills
- Prevention of traffic jams
- Potential to increase speed limits
- Freedom to focus on other things (child, eating, work, etc.)
- Auto-navigation
by then there will be no wallets
all you will require is a slender smart card
Is this going to be like the Prieus, where the car costs far more then what you save over years?
I'm not buying a new 50K car. Sell me a conversion kit for around 2K I can put in my existing vehicle.
You can separate the networked components from the critical driving components. Every modern car already has vital components like the brakes and engine controlled by computers anyway. A lot of modern cars also have networked features like onstar or integrated cell phone capability. However, the networked components are kept separate to prevent hacking from becoming a catastrophe.
I agree with that.
I want to see my 1963 Plymouth Fury drive herself. Christine anybody?????
Well, when I upgrade my vehicle, I'm looking for something like a Subaru or a 1-ton truck.
It will be about 10-15 years before I have enough net worth to afford to take the 20% hit and buy a brand-new car and watch it depreciate the instant I drive it off the lot. Only the rich can do that.
OK but for this to work, all cars on the road will have to be able to comunicate with each other.
How is a self-driven car going to avoid older driven cars that can't communicate with them?
If you get a call when you half way to work that your kid got violently ill at school, how do you quickly take over and get to where you need to go.
I think the combination of computer and human interaction is too much to risk.
If everybody has the same type of car, what will the middle aged man drive? Right now he buys a red Corvette. Do you know what I mean now?
That makes no sense. In order for the cars to be able to know where everything is the cars have to be networked at all times.
OK but for this to work, all cars on the road will have to be able to comunicate with each other. All cars. At this point in time, people can chose what car they drive even if it is a '60s car.
How is a self-driven car going to avoid older driven cars that can't communicate with them? They will be speaking a whole different language than the older cars spoke.
I see the practical implementation for a self driving car something like this.
1) The first gen vehicles which already exist They have something like a laser rangefinder which detects the distance of the car in front of your and automatically controls the brake and throttle to maintain a safe following distance without driver input.
2) The next step is probably to include sensors that can identify a lane on the highway and stay within it. Combined with the features above, the car can drive itself on long highway trips, only requiring user input to change lanes.
3) The big step. You combine the ability to change lanes with the ability to handle merges and forks in the freeway. The robot car needs to have 360 sensor capability, a navigation database and some advanced control software. Essentially, you drive the car onto the on-ramp and it drives itself to whatever off-ramp upon which you resume control. Designating certain lanes as robot car only would help in optimizing traffic flow.
Up to this point I am very confident that robot cars will be viable. Once you start getting into driving in urban or residential areas, you run into problems that don't have obvious solutions.
What happens on rainy days and areas with a lot of mud?
If the sensors can get dirty and get covered up in any way you can never depend on them.
Too many ? to trust your life with.
What happens on rainy days and areas with a lot of mud?
If the sensors can get dirty and get covered up in any way you can never depend on them.
Too many ? to trust your life with.
My Accord has this feature, which IMHO isn't a high-end car. With the cars monitoring this, notification could be sent to an authority figure through the network for enforcement.
Yeah but how many wrecks have you caused? Ever look in your rear view mirror?:lol:
30,000 car isnt low end and its the higher end of midrange
It cost $22k, not $30k.
I don't even make 22K in a year, forget about being able to fork over that much cash for a new car.
Show me something in the 5K range, like a conversion kit, and then tell me how this investment is going to save me money over the life of my car.