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That is nonsense,

Simple camera based self driving cars have no more problems like a human has. On top of that you can have plenty of sensors that are beyond human capabilities.

And: self driving cars are not driven by an AI, for fuck sake. Stop calling it an AI if you have no clue what AI is or what a self driving car does.

Anyway, I wonder why american companies don't buy european tech instead of attempting to reinvent the "self driving wheel". We have self driving cars since 15 years. And since minimum 10 years we have fleets of self driving car roaming majour european cities.

In my town we have self driving cars of all majour brands running every day ... since a decade or longer. No accident so far.

https://www.fzi.de/en/research...

Being a scientiest is what the course of the study is called.
So if the univeristy calls it 'computer sciense' I'm obviously a computer scientist.

My papers and thesises are published at http://www.kit.edu/ and http://www.fzi.de/

Google is your friend.
Even google has a self driving car since roughly a decade ... just to mention it :)

In the meantime: https://www.fzi.de/en/our-offe...

In Karlsruhe we have self driving cars from every majour brand since minimum 10 years ... cycling around, under supervision of course.

I live in Karlsruhe ... and I worked for Continental, as test engineer for the cameras used in driver assisting cars. Continental is one of the mayjour manufacters of equipment for self driving cars and assisting systems. (Yes, that is the company that is mostly known for its tires)

Name one autopilot & vehicle that totally the vehicle's operator of all responsibility and need to be attentive.

You won't be able to, because none exist

They exist since decades. They just have not approval yet.

BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Toyota all have 100% autonomous cars. I'm pretty sure there are more companies.

However we call them "autonomous driving" and not "autopilot".

A few populations, not about the state of the art though, but videos included :D
http://www.fzi.de/en/research/...
http://www.fzi.de/en/research/...
http://www.kit.edu/kit/english...
http://www.eetimes.com/documen...

Question is when they will be market ready ...

Name one autopilot & vehicle that totally the vehicle's operator of all responsibility and need to be attentive.

You won't be able to, because none exist

They exist since decades. They just have not approval yet.

BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Toyota all have 100% autonomous cars. I'm pretty sure there are more companies.

However we call them "autonomous driving" and not "autopilot".

A few populations, not about the state of the art though, but videos included :D
http://www.fzi.de/en/research/...
http://www.fzi.de/en/research/...
http://www.kit.edu/kit/english...
http://www.eetimes.com/documen...

Question is when they will be market ready ...

The problem is that this does not actually scale that well. A large database will require large amounts of RAM when using this technique. This may be a good technique for small scale situations, but large data stores become troublesome. But that is not the only problem.

Additionally, the article admits to a lack of replication capabilities. But it gets worse. There are no real backend data mining capabilities. At best you can have the system export a file that can be imported into like objects and then write code to get information, but this is a far cry from an ad hoc SQL query. We still have not hit rock bottom, though. There is a lack of backup capability (wouldn't it suck if you have a bad sector on a disk and your log gets corrupted).

All of these shortcoming can be overcome, however. Since we have the code we can tweak it here or there. But in the end, we are back to a database. If you want an object oriented database, you might want something else:

• OBST
• ObjectStore

Even so, as this page shows, walking machines and designs have been around for a long while, even "ride on" models.