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Automobiles Evolve to Live Up to Their Name

Posted by michael on from the introducing-the-homer dept.

MauriceV sent in a story about the trend toward the completely self-driving car.

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  1. It wasn't my fault, officer. It was my car. by Oncogene · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a non-account link to the article. Robo-Cars Make Cruise Control So Last Century

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  2. Re:What does this mean? by awtbfb · · Score: 4, Informative

    Human reaction time can be negative. A computer probably won't be..

    Actually, the next generation of adaptive cruise control (or intelligent cruise control, depending on the marketer) is cooperative cruise control. In this mode, cars communicate in real time within their local area on traffic conditions, braking rates, speed, etc and adjust cruise control accordingly.

    This has other benefits beyond emergency situations in that this sort of tech will suck up shockwaves in traffic, thus improving dense driving for everyone. There was a simulation paper on this a few years back that showed you didn't even need a majority of the cars to have this for these results.