Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
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Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#2In the early 2000's, I was hanging out sometimes in western North Carolina, and there was this young woman who has in the habit of getting together with some friends and driving around the clock to get to Colorado and back on short trips, instead of flying. I'm wondering if this technology isn't going to be used for such purposes.
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#3In the early 2000's, I was hanging out sometimes in western North Carolina, and there was this young woman who has in the habit of getting together with some friends and driving around the clock to get to Colorado and back on short trips, instead of flying. I'm wondering if this technology isn't going to be used for such purposes.
With self-driving cars it would probably be possible to design the seats so that with only one passenger it would be possible to lie down fully. This could make overnight drives in personal cars quite pleasant relative to buses.
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#4The real problem with self-driving cars is the car to human handoff. Over the long term it's incredible unlikely that humans will be any good at all at remaining aware and 'up to speed' on the current situation in the event that the car needs to give control back to the driver due to road conditions, hardware failure, or sudden situation that it cannot contend with.
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#5In the early 2000's, I was hanging out sometimes in western North Carolina, and there was this young woman who has in the habit of getting together with some friends and driving around the clock to get to Colorado and back on short trips, instead of flying. I'm wondering if this technology isn't going to be used for such purposes.
Would you be more willing to live 2 hours outside of SF if you could hop in a self-driving car 3x/week and watch a movie/surf the net during a trip into the office? That's the most exciting part of it for me.
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#6In the early 2000's, I was hanging out sometimes in western North Carolina, and there was this young woman who has in the habit of getting together with some friends and driving around the clock to get to Colorado and back on short trips, instead of flying. I'm wondering if this technology isn't going to be used for such purposes.
If I could get in my car, read a bit and fall asleep, and wake up in Las Vegas from San Francisco, I'd prefer it over flying every time.
But this has more to do with how air travel has become miserable than anything else.
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#7In the early 2000's, I was hanging out sometimes in western North Carolina, and there was this young woman who has in the habit of getting together with some friends and driving around the clock to get to Colorado and back on short trips, instead of flying. I'm wondering if this technology isn't going to be used for such purposes.
With self-driving cars it would probably be possible to design the seats so that with only one passenger it would be possible to lie down fully. This could make overnight drives in personal cars quite pleasant relative to buses.
To me this is the most exciting part of fully autonomous cars. Some of the new car designs we are going to see will drastically change automobiles forever when you no longer have the concept of a "driver" or steering wheel. Where should input/control surfaces go? How should the car be built? How can it be built safer?
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#8If it's a much cheaper car than the alternatives, would the self-driving capability be implemented with lower-quality hardware and/or software?
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#9In the early 2000's, I was hanging out sometimes in western North Carolina, and there was this young woman who has in the habit of getting together with some friends and driving around the clock to get to Colorado and back on short trips, instead of flying. I'm wondering if this technology isn't going to be used for such purposes.
Would you be more willing to live 2 hours outside of SF if you could hop in a self-driving car 3x/week and watch a movie/surf the net during a trip into the office? That's the most exciting part of it for me.
On one hand I get this; folks have been pulling crazy long commutes in the NYC area for decades. But the very idea of four hours per day of commuting being "exciting" in the age of completely practical remote work is baffling to me.
Re: Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
#10In the early 2000's, I was hanging out sometimes in western North Carolina, and there was this young woman who has in the habit of getting together with some friends and driving around the clock to get to Colorado and back on short trips, instead of flying. I'm wondering if this technology isn't going to be used for such purposes.
Throw in 90-100 mph driving speed and we have a great way to travel. There"s no reason we can't have higher speeds on highways with only self-driving vehicles?