foxes_rule1978 Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 The UK government is to outline measures to permit driverless cars to use public roads by next year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28551069
Webbo Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 It's inevitable really. In 10 or 15 years times when it becomes affordable for the rest of us this'll be common place.
davieG Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 I seemed to remember a headline or two about this happening in the 70s.
Jimothy Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 I swear there's already some on the roads, the way people drive.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Personally I don't like being driven. I think I'd dislike it more if no one was driving.
Buce Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Designed by computers... Hand-built by robots... Driven by the missus.
separator Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 I enjoy driving, even long motorway journeys. No fun in being driven around by the car, unless you want want to relive the 80's and pretend your the Hoff in Knight Rider.
MooseBreath Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 I would have thought we'd get an autopilot option on cars first rather than going straight in at fully automatic. Can't see any technological barrier to mass producing cars which are capable of autopilot'ing on motorways and a-roads and then switching to manual for the last leg. As someone who clocks up about 25k miles per annum I would absolutely love being able to let a computer take over on main roads.
StanSP Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 At what cost?And if I get road-rage, I'd look silly directing my anger at an invisible person.
Vicki Vixen Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 I seemed to remember a headline or two about this happening in the 70s. You're right, the technology has been around since the 70s, but it's only now that insurers/manufacturers/governments are seriously considering making it a reality. The reason it didn't fly in the past is that no-one would accept liability if the technology failed and caused injury or death.
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 At what cost? And if I get road-rage, I'd look silly directing my anger at an invisible person. Just barge it off the road
StanSP Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Just barge it off the road All I have in my head is a scene from i,Robot where Will Smith is trying to barge the robot cars off in the tunnel
Bellend Sebastian Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Perhaps a driverless car wouldn't have driven itself into a concrete post yesterday, unlike my car with my missus at the wheel. I think this means I need to get a robot wife
Strokes Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Jeez the environMENTAL folk will do their nut, when cars are driving round with nobody in it.
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Jeez the environMENTAL folk will do their nut, when cars are driving round with nobody in it. I wonder if these things will start arranging car meets with each other?
Bellend Sebastian Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Jeez the environMENTAL folk will do their nut, when cars are driving round with nobody in it. I think I may be being really thick here. Why will there be cars driving around with nobody in them? I can see the case for driver-less cars, but demand for passenger-less cars probably won't be great
ADK Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Well it's probably cheaper to tell your car to drive around all day than pay for city parking.
Merging Cultures Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Eventually we will all just hire/rent drive less cars like taxis, the system will learn our habits and cars will be allocated based on predicted need, so as soon as your request a car it will drive to your location, but one will already be nearby and ready, to take you home. So yes, cars will drive around empty, but only to the nearest taxi/car rank, and then to pick up a rider.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Eventually we will all just hire/rent drive less cars like taxis, the system will learn our habits and cars will be allocated based on predicted need, so as soon as your request a car it will drive to your location, but one will already be nearby and ready, to take you home. So yes, cars will drive around empty, but only to the nearest taxi/car rank, and then to pick up a rider. I don't want to use a car if TBJS was the previous occupant!
MooseBreath Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Eventually we will all just hire/rent drive less cars like taxis, the system will learn our habits and cars will be allocated based on predicted need, so as soon as your request a car it will drive to your location, but one will already be nearby and ready, to take you home. So yes, cars will drive around empty, but only to the nearest taxi/car rank, and then to pick up a rider. True dat. Future generations will be amazed that in our day we could just get in a car and drive however we wanted where ever we wanted. Such freedoms, they will lament.
ADK Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 I'm betting it won't work. There will probably be zones in major cities where these things are used and they will be electric.
Webbo Posted 30 July 2014 Posted 30 July 2014 Eventually we will all just hire/rent drive less cars like taxis, the system will learn our habits and cars will be allocated based on predicted need, so as soon as your request a car it will drive to your location, but one will already be nearby and ready, to take you home. So yes, cars will drive around empty, but only to the nearest taxi/car rank, and then to pick up a rider. It'll put thousands of taxi drivers and independent garages out of business. That's progress I suppose.
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.