We can't even implement NFC payments because carriers are interested in the percentage of the revenue.
Sadly judging from this, there's no way self-driving are going to be in mainstream reality. With all the insurance, oil and other companies in the way....
I hope I'm proven wrong.
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#42One of the big advantages of completely self-driving cars will be for the elderly. Thing about it, currently our grandparents and great-grandparents who cannot drive anymore rely on family/ public transport and expensive taxis to get around. Once we reach the age of our grandparents we will be much for fortunate to be able to still travel independently wherever we want. This is a massive plus to look forward to.
Google had a blind man try out one of their cars a while back.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think most rational people would come to realize that even if the 1/10 of deaths are caused by computer errors then at least the problem can be fixed over time. With human error, there's not much you can do.
> if the 1/10 of deaths are caused by computer errors then at least the problem can be fixed over time. This only follows through if you don't introduce new technology and innovations to your software (and thus new bugs), which isn't going to happen. If you look at air travel, the number of fatal accidents occurring each decade since the 1950s has stayed around the same, even though we've significantly improved autom…
The number of accidents has perhaps stayed roughly the same but there's a hell of a lot more planes flying every day now. So it's highly likely that the accident rate per flight has dropped dramatically. (Though I don't have the data handy to support either hypothesis).
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#44I am closely following the development of self driving cars specially at google and i can assure everyone of its sophistication that it's the best driver you can get for your car. I know you all would be aware of the fact but i want to take this opportunity to state that is has covered thousands of miles without a single accident isn't that an extraordinary achievement for a car without a driver(but a computer instea…
Google self-driving cars have caused accidents, although Google claims the self-driving feature was off at the time. I'm more concerned of what these cars will do to highway capacity and therefore traffic congestion due to the excessive lag/follow distance their algorithms impose. While they should be following at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIOE1IZrq4 ) is sub-human follow times and it's apparently the only car…
You straightaway want it to overtake lemans and lamborghini's did i not mention that it is still in the development phase?? all i can say is be patient and hope for a better product.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
They'll have to fight the insurance companies. Insurance companies will probably love to be collecting rent on every vehicle while having to cover 90% less accidents.
Actually I think this will kill insurance companies too. They will see their business fall inline with the cost of accidents.
The second part might be true, but human-driven cars are going to be on the road for a very long time. As long as they are here, accidents will happen, and insurance companies will find a way to charge you for it. Geico et al will never stop existing, so long as there is the possibility of human error.
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#46Self-driving cars = more time online = $GOOG profit
Thats exactly that they are looking for.
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#47As a cyclist, I long for the day when all cars (and especially heavy trucks!) are self driving.
What about self driving bicycles? You just need to peddle, and the integrated road traffic system removed the error prone human element completely from the equation.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
They'll have to fight the insurance companies. Insurance companies will probably love to be collecting rent on every vehicle while having to cover 90% less accidents.
Actually I think this will kill insurance companies too. They will see their business fall inline with the cost of accidents.
People will still want and demand car insurance. Stuff still happens, and I want my car and injuries paid for. So they'll still be around. It may be a smaller industry, but it won't kill them.
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#49It'll probably take at least 40-50 years before autonomous vehicles become the norm. The interesting thing will be what happens in the meantime, when there's a mix of autonomous and human driven vehicles. Will the laws change to have 'autonomous only' lanes? Will they replace HOV lanes? Will autonomous vehicles be allowed to make maneuvers that human driven cars cannot in order to improve traffic flow, such as drivin…
It was only 60 years between the Wright brothers and the moon landing. And considering the rate of technological advance is increasing, I think autonomous vehicles will take much less time. I can't even imagine what things will be like in 50 years.
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#50And perversely, if accidents happened one tenth as often, they'd become news, and people would think they were more common and dangerous than they do now. The question is whether we can get to a point of no return with self-driving cars before that effect takes hold.
This will be taken care of by insurance companies. If the data is there to show that automatic cars are involved in a lot less accidents than regular cars, the insurance premium will be prohibitively expensive for non-automatic cars. Only rich folks will be able to drive.
Why would the premium be higher than what it is right now?