How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
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#2I want to believe this is the future. Maybe not from Google, maybe from other companies, but self-driving cars are an amazing idea. Put a 100mph giant piece of metal in the hands of humans, on the other side, is not a smart idea...
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#3I want to believe this is the future. Maybe not from Google, maybe from other companies, but self-driving cars are an amazing idea. Put a 100mph giant piece of metal in the hands of humans, on the other side, is not a smart idea...
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#4Once legislation is updated to allow self-driving cars in most parts of the world, I wonder how profitable self-driving cars could be for Google.
About 77 million cars were produced in 2010. With the appropriate licensing, a percentage of that could make a very nice profit.
I should buy some Google stock :)
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#5I wonder if they will eventually license the self-driving software in an Android-like model?
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#6I wonder how long will it take till the price of something like this gets to reasonable levels. The lidar and other sensors probably won't get cheap anytime soon. Imagine the costs of Google having to drive through all the places first, mapping them. Then the massive insurance until its proven that self-driving cars are safer (and then it will probably get expensive again after a first accident)
Perhaps it would make sense for government to step in like it did with electrical cars.
Edit: It seems the LIDAR they use costs 75000$. :-/ http://eole.ecam.be/claroline/backends/download.php?url=L0dv...
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#7I wonder how long will it take till the price of something like this gets to reasonable levels. The lidar and other sensors probably won't get cheap anytime soon. Imagine the costs of Google having to drive through all the places first, mapping them. Then the massive insurance until its proven that self-driving cars are safer (and then it will probably get expensive again after a first accident) Perhaps it would make…
The cost of the hardware, sensors and mapping is expensive (initially) if you are talking about adding the hardware to a vehicle that one person or family will own. If you are talking about adding it to each vehicle in an autonomous taxi fleet, it suddenly makes a lot more sense and economies of scale kick in quickly.
You are replacing a taxi drivers wages with sensors and mapping essentially. Not to mention extremely-well paid surgeons who clean up after drunk driving accidents, theatre nurses, insurance costs, cost of mechanics.....this technology has so many implications it's hard to visualise them all initially. It's going to be extremely disruptive to some industries, and a boon to others (e.g. where I live, rural pubs are in trouble. This could change all that - "get driven home at 200mph in perfect safety after a night getting smashed!" etc.)
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#8I wonder how long will it take till the price of something like this gets to reasonable levels. The lidar and other sensors probably won't get cheap anytime soon. Imagine the costs of Google having to drive through all the places first, mapping them. Then the massive insurance until its proven that self-driving cars are safer (and then it will probably get expensive again after a first accident) Perhaps it would make…
Some people have noted that personal ownership of a self driving car is non-optimal in terms of effective use of this tech. But you make an excellent indirect connection. Since these things would be be most effective with a lot of usage, electrical cars or some other renewable energy source would be ideal for the environment.
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#9Everything Google does feeds back, somehow, to data mining.
How does self-driving cars fit in to Google's plans?
ETA: Downvoted for asking a serious question? WTH?
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#10I wonder how long will it take till the price of something like this gets to reasonable levels. The lidar and other sensors probably won't get cheap anytime soon. Imagine the costs of Google having to drive through all the places first, mapping them. Then the massive insurance until its proven that self-driving cars are safer (and then it will probably get expensive again after a first accident) Perhaps it would make…
Isn't the kinnect an example of very inexpensive LIDAR? (I may be wrong)