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Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream?
Here's the thing, regardless of one's stand on self-driving cars, they are no longer a futuristic idea. Major car companies such as Tesla, BMW, and Mercedes have already released an autonomous vehicle or plan to release one soon. Sergio Marchionne, an Italian-Canadian executive who is currently the CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, recently said: It isn't pie in the sky. People are talking about 20 years. I think we will have it in five years. ZDNet has published its interview of Jim McBride, technical leader in Ford's autonomous vehicles team, who thinks self-driving cars are five years away from changing the world. At the same time, we must acknowledge the talks about these smart vehicles killing many jobs, and the security vulnerabilities we read every once in a while. What's your take on this?
OT I have a feeling /. got better recently. Articles got little bit more interesting and strangely the inflow of obscenities from disturbed users (or their bots) decreased slightly. I hope the trend holds on.
They need to define what 'self driving' means to get an answer. Self driving features such as parking assist or other very specific functions are already here, but I don't consider it self driving if I can't get from one location to another without driving. Maybe if I could travel an interstate with no interaction, that might qualify.
Ditto. People come up with all of these oddball scenarios (A dozen kids suddenly appear in the middle of highway. Hit them or run into a wall?), but fail to recognize the fact that a typical human driver would have only have looked up from his phone after he felt his car bowling over kids like tenpins.
To be successful a self driving car doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to avoid killing 30,000 people a year as well as avoiding about 5.5 million auto accidents that in turn injured 2.5 million people.
Humans sort of suck at driving, actually, and I've got to think a vehicle with 360-degree sensors that can see and react to conditions in microseconds can do a lot better than us tired, distracted, drunk, road-raging meatbags.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
"Volvo has announced it will accept "full liability" for accidents when one of its cars is driving autonomously"
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This has actually been discussed here before. The manufacturers seem to have a pretty good idea of how they want to do it. So at this point I don't see insurance being any significant hurdle.
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