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GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: General Motors Co Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Thursday the automaker will expand testing of self-driving vehicles to Michigan, and will build its next generation of self-driving cars in the Michigan plant that builds the Chevrolet Bolt electric car. GM has been accelerating its efforts to deploy self-driving cars, earlier this year buying autonomous driving startup Cruise Automation. GM and Cruise engineers have been testing self-driving prototypes in Arizona and California. Rivals, including Ford Motor Co, Uber Technologies and Alphabet Inc's Waymo self-driving car unit, are also testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in various states and countries. Barra used a press conference at the company's Detroit headquarters to show off an electric Chevrolet Bolt equipped with roof-top sensors designed to enable autonomous driving. GM executives have said the automaker could eventually deploy self driving electric cars in fleets managed by its ride services partner, Lyft. However, Barra did not address Lyft in her remarks Thursday.
Jaguar announced that it has completed designs for a self-assembling car. It builds itself, transports itself to the dealer, sells itself, obtains it's own financing, then drives it's new owner home. At that point it's up to the new owner to drive it back to the dealer to repair the electronics.
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On the roads.
Or on the sidewalks and in the cross walks when there is a sensor malfunction.
Can we say LAWSUITS? This will be an interesting bit of product safety litigation that won't soon go away. It will keep an army of lawyers and "expert witnesses" employed for decades. I think I need to get an AI degree and some experience in self driving cars so I can collect some the bundles of cash that will be forthcoming for "experts" in the field.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
I wonder who got the ticket for that?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Even if they do eventually get it to do intersections, will it ever be able to handle Michigan winters? Imagine - sensors covered with frost in the mornings and covered with all that road sludge during the day. Night driving in winter could be deadly.
we don't have anything to worry about vis-a-vis self driving cars and their negative effect on the jobs. Since it's not like there are 2-3 stories a day about how the technology is progressing. Sure is great that nothing in human civilization ever changes, and that even if it did we'd approach those changes like rational, decent creatures and wouldn't descend into a terrifying dystopian society of haves and have nots just because the ruling class had no need for the working class. Yep. Boy am I glad that Luddite is just a slur with no historical context whatsoever and that it didn't take the economy 80 years to catch up to the industrial revolution ushering in decades of unemployment, poverty, starvation and social unrest. Let the good times roll, forever.
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can it do more then the speed limit?
I don't want this crap doing 55 on I-294
I'd like to see it try a Michigan left, even during summer.
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That's what I'd do, at least until summer.
Yeah seriously. Musk Oil, anyone?
Look, Tesla might look like it has a serious contender to automagically drive you onto the crossing semi truck but that's just LARPing to the real thing.
So much as I hate Google, they have the only system which I'd trust: lidar vision. THAT makes it viable. Not dinky cameras all around the car that fail once it loosed the lines on the ground.
Well, I know this is a crazy idea, but the sensor could note when it can't "see" clearly and notify the driver. So you come out to your frozen car and turn it on and, damn it, have to drive it yourself. Or you could, you know, clean off the sensors. They put these things on my car to clean the windshield--maybe they could do something similar with the sensors.
As someone below noted, I'm sure these things are being considered. It'll be interesting to see what solution they come up with.
"Well, I know this is a crazy idea, but the sensor could note when it can't "see" clearly and notify the driver."
The rear proximity sensors on my wife's 2013 Hyundai do exactly that. I would assume other current vehicles do the same thing.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
I'm told GM has changed it's ways. Of course, they've been telling us that for four decades or so. But maybe it really is different this time.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
I wonder who got the ticket for that?
When the Uber SDC ran the red light, it was under human control and the SDC capability was not active. So the human driver was at fault. No one was ticketed, because the violation was recorded by a bystander, not the police.
GM makes a car name the Chevrolet Bolt?? That's itterly Usain!
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Have you driven in winter? I'm not buying a car that has a remote chance of stopping and forcing me to walk through ankle deep dirty slush to wipe something off. Defeats the point of the self driving.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
So buy a car that you drive, oh wait...