I imagine Google is eagerly awaiting all the good ideas they will harvest from these students. I am anticipating an 'incubator' program near the end of training that sidelines students and takes control as soon as their ideas start to come to fruition.
Sure insurance prices go up, but in a controlled way. Drivers shouldn't be expected to pay for bungs in software. One year you are paying $1000, and then a trailer crossing the road event happens and the next year you are paying $2500? How can anyone budget that way? It's Tesla's bug and their burden to bear and should not affect immediate insurance rates.
That's fine, as long as Sally Smith doesn't personally have to pay more because her automated car didn't see a cyclist one day when the sun was shining a certain way. Everyone should pay equally. The only way to accomplish that is to make it part of the cost of the car, which means no personal insurance anyway. Otherwise you get a situation where ten thousand people have fluctuating insurance rates depending on what bugs were found that month in terms of accidents.
No, it's more like how people don't use linux because they know straight away that it is more complicated than using macos or windows and don't want to deal with it. That seems to be what an EV is for the moment. Nothing wrong with liking how things work now. I get that you are an EV crusader or something, but you can't keep denying that EVs are less convenient than gas for the time being. Hopefully one day they won't be; I suggest you focus on making that happen.
As long as the insurance company can't raise a car owner's premiums when the car makes a mistake. The same software in every car means every car owner is equally as skilled. The practice of charging a driver according to their past driving history no longer has any logic.
People like you see one human making a mistake out of ten thousand and then go on about humans can't drive. I see humans making a true mistake in traffic, maybe once a month. In that time I must have seen 5000 drivers doing exactly the right thing. It's going to be a long time before you see 4999 autonomous cars not making a mistake ever and one that does.
But what will it do when it doesn't have accurate map data because I've been driving in another country for a month and I don't have an internet plan there, and someone has knocked over a stop sign?
It it matters that much then you have already lost. I have enough things to plan when I go on a weekend to the cottage. I don't need to strategise my route, I just don't. With an ICE I know I'll see a gas station at some point after my tank passes 1/4 full no matter where I am and it won't impact my timeline when that happens. When the same can be said for an EV then I will be less concerned about them.
Technology tends to get licensed in a way that the companies that develop it stand to gain the most by it. It remains to be seen whether any of them will see enough value with putting it in personally owned vehicles. They seem to be on a course to keep it in the hands of companies running fleets.
Along those lines, frequently in the winter snow clearing equipment will be blocking your lane and humans are good at just slowly driving around them in the opposing lane. The loader will stop, and you go around it. This kind of situation is going to paralyze a self driving car.
What about areas without connectivity? If self driving cars *need* these maps to work then how will they ever work if you drive away from an internet connection?
Ok so my vacation home is 250 km away. When I get there I find out the pump is broken and I need parts to fix it. The nearest town to get parts is 100km away.
Cost doesn't matter. Desperation for people to use it is what matters. And any how, we have no idea what a self driving array will cost once they get it to work.
I'm quite nervous though about the time it takes current EVs to recharge. It is conceivable as they get more popular, people get left without enough charge to respond to an emergency or do something they need to do. You get home from a long commute to work and back, and your friend calls you to join them for coffee across town. Now you have to do distance calculations on whether your car can get you there or not? That's kind of a pain.
Uh, no. Gas prices rise and fall in sync because gas stations have to charge what they are told to charge. There is very little profit for gas stations, but massive profit for oil companies.
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I imagine Google is eagerly awaiting all the good ideas they will harvest from these students. I am anticipating an 'incubator' program near the end of training that sidelines students and takes control as soon as their ideas start to come to fruition.
Sure insurance prices go up, but in a controlled way. Drivers shouldn't be expected to pay for bungs in software. One year you are paying $1000, and then a trailer crossing the road event happens and the next year you are paying $2500? How can anyone budget that way? It's Tesla's bug and their burden to bear and should not affect immediate insurance rates.
Is anyone really going to know if the new update fixes old bugs without introducing new ones?
So my kids can lose or break a $99 tablet or a $500 chromebook. I'll go with the tablet. In fact, I'm almost as likely to break it as they are.
If that's the deal then fine. Currently us Canadians have to pay $5 per 100 Mb when we go down south.
That's fine, as long as Sally Smith doesn't personally have to pay more because her automated car didn't see a cyclist one day when the sun was shining a certain way. Everyone should pay equally. The only way to accomplish that is to make it part of the cost of the car, which means no personal insurance anyway. Otherwise you get a situation where ten thousand people have fluctuating insurance rates depending on what bugs were found that month in terms of accidents.
No, it's more like how people don't use linux because they know straight away that it is more complicated than using macos or windows and don't want to deal with it. That seems to be what an EV is for the moment. Nothing wrong with liking how things work now. I get that you are an EV crusader or something, but you can't keep denying that EVs are less convenient than gas for the time being. Hopefully one day they won't be; I suggest you focus on making that happen.
As long as the insurance company can't raise a car owner's premiums when the car makes a mistake. The same software in every car means every car owner is equally as skilled. The practice of charging a driver according to their past driving history no longer has any logic.
People like you see one human making a mistake out of ten thousand and then go on about humans can't drive. I see humans making a true mistake in traffic, maybe once a month. In that time I must have seen 5000 drivers doing exactly the right thing. It's going to be a long time before you see 4999 autonomous cars not making a mistake ever and one that does.
But what will it do when it doesn't have accurate map data because I've been driving in another country for a month and I don't have an internet plan there, and someone has knocked over a stop sign?
Just get what you need and remember to get out. Annoying, but not really a problem worth going on about.
It it matters that much then you have already lost. I have enough things to plan when I go on a weekend to the cottage. I don't need to strategise my route, I just don't. With an ICE I know I'll see a gas station at some point after my tank passes 1/4 full no matter where I am and it won't impact my timeline when that happens. When the same can be said for an EV then I will be less concerned about them.
So a car is going to have enough storage for every stop sign and traffic signal anywhere in a local database, and this will be kept up to date, how?
Technology tends to get licensed in a way that the companies that develop it stand to gain the most by it. It remains to be seen whether any of them will see enough value with putting it in personally owned vehicles. They seem to be on a course to keep it in the hands of companies running fleets.
I know someone who works in the GIS department of my city. There is no freaking way they have the resources to keep up with this.
Along those lines, frequently in the winter snow clearing equipment will be blocking your lane and humans are good at just slowly driving around them in the opposing lane. The loader will stop, and you go around it. This kind of situation is going to paralyze a self driving car.
What about areas without connectivity? If self driving cars *need* these maps to work then how will they ever work if you drive away from an internet connection?
Im in canada. Nothing along the way.
Ok so my vacation home is 250 km away. When I get there I find out the pump is broken and I need parts to fix it. The nearest town to get parts is 100km away.
There are horror stories with AirBnB as well. It's a lot easier to fix a house then it is to fix a car. And houses don't tend to kill people.
That misses the point. Most people will want to use autonomous cars during rush hour. Unless you think only housewives will be using autonomous cars.
Cost doesn't matter. Desperation for people to use it is what matters. And any how, we have no idea what a self driving array will cost once they get it to work.
That's the point, I don't ever want to have to think 'in numbers'. I just want to be able to fill up in ten minutes if I need it.
I'm quite nervous though about the time it takes current EVs to recharge. It is conceivable as they get more popular, people get left without enough charge to respond to an emergency or do something they need to do. You get home from a long commute to work and back, and your friend calls you to join them for coffee across town. Now you have to do distance calculations on whether your car can get you there or not? That's kind of a pain.
Uh, no. Gas prices rise and fall in sync because gas stations have to charge what they are told to charge. There is very little profit for gas stations, but massive profit for oil companies.