Am I the only one who is looking forward to autonomous cars?

It will mean an end to dashcam compilation channels on youtube. We can't have that. We need our fix of Russian entertainment, and British arrogance/stupidity.
 
To an extent. I would welcome a world in which I can drive my car manually in most day to day and town driving, then switch to autonomous mode once I join a motorway or dual carriageway. From what I've seen of autonomous vehicles (such as the video above), this is a situation they can handle easily - not a lot of manoeuvring, traffic all heading in the same direction, easy to follow road markings, predictable road layouts. And I think MW/DCs would benefit the most from autonomous vehicles - no more lane hogging, no more tailgaiting etc. It would reduce congestion and increase travel times on major routes considerably. Best of both worls - I could still drive when I want to drive for pleasure, and let the car take over for the boring motorway slogs :)
 
I can see motorways being automated but town driving still being manual. At least with motorways there are less road side obstacles and in general people are heading in the same direction.
 
Hotwired said:
Are you trying to make a point or casually smear.

You are required to pass a test and then comply with the law.

An automated car would have to meet the same base standards of negotiating traffic as a human and responsibility would have to land somewhere also.

Some creativity is also required in real driving.
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Once the issues have been ironed out automated driving will be far safer.

I suspect what will happen is that we'll be driving manually but using the safety net of the sensors available to avoid collisions, this is already the case today but I guess it'll just more and more advanced. So rather than just beeping if there is a car in your blind spot it won't actually let you move.
 
chaparral said:
So what would these vehicles do if they were both controlled by computers ?
There also most likely a long line of other vehicles behind this bus & Van..




And how are they going to program a computer to be able to drive on the pavement only when needed ?
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Pure guess but it'd warn you prior to approaching then I presume it'd gradually slow down to a halt and give the option for the human to take over.
 
sigma said:
I suspect what will happen is that we'll be driving manually but using the safety net of the sensors available to avoid collisions, this is already the case today but I guess it'll just more and more advanced. So rather than just beeping if there is a car in your blind spot it won't actually let you move.
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Ford has Cross Traffic Alert with Braking....(My focus ST only has the Cross Traffic Alert with beeping :()

 
chaparral said:
Ford has Cross Traffic Alert with Braking....(My focus ST only has the Cross Traffic Alert with beeping :()

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The car advert was good for a laugh.

Casually driving along at 5mph in a carpark ignoring the other car reversing out a metre into the road.

But filmed with dodgy camera angles and last minute steering for drama.

Didn't even use a worst case van sandwich either.
 
I would welcome autonomous driving on motorways asap. Would eliminate traffic jams and other unnecessary slow moving traffic caused by idiots who can't maintain a constant speed, trucks overtaking etc..
 
If everyone else wants to be automated, that's fine with me.

Personally? Hell no, I like driving. What the hell else am I going to do while sit there? Watch TV or some ********? No thanks.
 
sigma said:
Once the issues have been ironed out automated driving will be far safer.
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It will just replace current risks with new ones.

I don't know why people think making everything reliant on computers is going to make it safer. They are binary, they work or they don't and there's no middle ground where errors can be corrected. Once it starts to mess up, to late, your going in to that tree at full pelt. It won't suddenly realise it's mistake like a human would.
 
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Clearcut said:
Raises an interesting point with all those occasions where you can only progress if the human takes control.

I see drunks crashing and trying to claim the car was in control (this can be analysed of course)
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It has already been said by the police somewhere that if you are in charge of one of these cars you need to be legally capable of driving it as if it was a normal persons car.
 
Nasher said:
It will just replace current risks with new ones.

I don't know why people think making everything reliant on computers is going to make it safer. They are binary, they work or they don't and there's no middle ground where errors can be corrected. Once it starts to mess up, to late, your going in to that tree at full pelt. It won't suddenly realise it's mistake like a human would.
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By that logic you're against electronic throttles in cars too? People have died from throttles jamming. Brakes failing. You name it.

I'm not sure what you mean by no middle ground, there's a huge middle ground, it's the person behind the wheel.
 
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