The "Top Gear", Season 24/25/26 thread

Lol driverless, automated car racing just seems pointless. You might as well just simulate it with CGI instead of spending all that money on a real car. It can't even be considered a sport.

They could at least make them remote control. That would be quite fun IMO, because no one would have any fear :)
 
Ditto on Rory. He seems like the third wheel kid in a group of friends at school that comes out with naff jokes and naff ideas to make himself look cool to the others. Which is weird because you would think it would be obvious from the script what his part was.
 
Rory should've stayed on Extra Gear, I actualy prefer him to George Lewis - but he should not be on the main show.

I actually think the autonomous racing is pretty interesting from a technology stand point, but I wouldn't watch it.
 
Autonomous racing is the future though, as will be autonomous cars on the road.

I guarantee in 50 years time there will not be a single car driven by a driver anywhere.
 
Motor Racing has always shown what will happen to road cars.

In a couple of years time this robocar series will kick off, and pretty soon I reckon manufacturers will start to really love it.

They can push harder and harder with technology and speed and power, as when it all goes wrong no one will die.

Manufacturers are working on this already, Nissan, BMW, VW, all have projects in the pipeline, google is testing stuff, and lets be honest Tesla is basically a fully autonomous car already, they just say the driver needs to stay alert and ready to take over, so it won't be long, before the driver is redundant.

Then as the technology matures, regulations and laws will be brought into force, to ban humans from controlling race cars, and eventually road cars, all in the name of safety.
 
I'm pretty fascinated with the idea of the robot car racing... It will really drive the automated tech forwards plus the cars themselves look awesome. I'm not convinced that the racing will necessarily be good but if they manage to give the autopilots some level of character (maybe model a car on Maldonado?) it could be entertaining :p Plus let's face it, half of the time F1 is as dull as dishwater to watch with the cars just following in a line and many of us still sit and watch that for a few hours when it's on!
 
I don't understand why they would fake him driving the car at all? Perhaps there is another driver for the drifts, etc, but going at a not-crazy pace and talking to camera is surely not above him. He's not that crap.
 
Entai said:
Autonomous racing is the future though, as will be autonomous cars on the road.

I guarantee in 50 years time there will not be a single car driven by a driver anywhere.
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What nonsense. Even when all transportation is via automated vehicles, people will still drive cars for recreation and sport, just as we used to use horses for transportation but now ride them for recreation and sport.
 
Clarkson said:
I don't understand why they would fake him driving the car at all? Perhaps there is another driver for the drifts, etc, but going at a not-crazy pace and talking to camera is surely not above him. He's not that crap.
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Could be wrong, but the steering input never seemed to correspond to what was going on behind him and I dont think he looked at the road at all.
 
Vertigo1 said:
What nonsense. Even when all transportation is via automated vehicles, people will still drive cars for recreation and sport, just as we used to use horses for transportation but now ride them for recreation and sport.
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Exactly. They are really over-estimating how many people actually WANT self driving cars. I'd never buy one.

The safety thing is not a good argument either. Computers go wrong more often than people do. There are only a few self driving cars in the world and already they have been involved in accidents :/
 
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Nasher said:
The safety thing is not a good argument either. Computers go wrong more often than people do. There are only a few self driving cars in the world and already they have been involved in accidents :/
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If all cars were automated I think there would be less chance of accidents, the issue is mixing automation with unpredictable humans :D
 
SupraWez said:
If all cars were automated I think there would be less chance of accidents, the issue is mixing automation with unpredictable humans :D
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Yes but if they are relying on GPS or other "cloud" system, it's one big single point of failure. Plus there's a lot more other variables that can break. Just a sensor going wrong could potentially cause a crash.
 
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