Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden
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#2Volvo have stopped selling manual transmission ("stick") cars in North America. They have lost me as a customer.
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#3No rotating laser dome on the roof?
Re: Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden
#4Volvo have stopped selling manual transmission ("stick") cars in North America. They have lost me as a customer.
If you dislike automatic transition I guess you'll not like self driving cars.
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#5“The test cars are now able to handle lane following, speed adaption, and merging traffic all by themselves,”
This is an important step, although I must say they appear to be far behind Google. My money is on Google getting to an acceptable deployment phase far earlier.
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#6Volvo have stopped selling manual transmission ("stick") cars in North America. They have lost me as a customer.
If you dislike automatic transition I guess you'll not like self driving cars.
I was quite a fan of the manual transmission, but I got an automatic car for the first time now (Mercedes A-class), and it's just so good at shifting that I never even consider it any more. I think of the transmission as another part of the driving experience to automate away now, like turning lights and parking brakes on and off.
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#7No rotating laser dome on the roof?
LIDAR does not work in rain, on wet roads or in the snow.
Google car drives only in good weather in California for a reason. In Sweden they could drive maybe a week in a year.
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#8No rotating laser dome on the roof?
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#9“The test cars are now able to handle lane following, speed adaption, and merging traffic all by themselves,” This is an important step, although I must say they appear to be far behind Google. My money is on Google getting to an acceptable deployment phase far earlier.
Given the driving conditions in Sweden and the years of experience Volvo has as a car company, I would bet they will be able to deploy and all weather version before Google.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you dislike automatic transition I guess you'll not like self driving cars.
I was quite a fan of the manual transmission, but I got an automatic car for the first time now (Mercedes A-class), and it's just so good at shifting that I never even consider it any more. I think of the transmission as another part of the driving experience to automate away now, like turning lights and parking brakes on and off.
There is difference with automatic gearbox (planetary gearbox) and DCT gearbox which is much closer to the manual IIRC.