Google must be testing out my insurance agent to be the first autonomous insurance agency because anytime I ever call or stop by their office nobody is there.
Did you ever think about what the heck we are going to be doing in 50 years. Won’t have to drive, we’ll have robots to do our work and errands, computers where we can buy stuff without leaving the house, computers to interact with other people without leaving the house. I wonder where humans are going to fit in.
Intresting I’m sure even with the built in safety features to avoid such collision the vehicle has to have time to react. So maybe if the second vehicle suddenly hit the breaks there wasnt enough time for the google prius to react.
No more drunk driving? The cars are legally no different than a car with cruise control, as long as a human is available to take over? Assuming the driver who takes over is sober. And you’ve got to be kidding me, comparing a completely autonomous car to cruise control?
There never has been, and there never will be, an engineer smart enough to outwit the dumbest and most irresponsible human beings. Toyota just got dragged through the mud on a bogus throttle software defect fiasco. I can only imagine what the bottom-feeding trial lawyers could do to a robo-car manufacturer.
Once more, reality will end up sticking it’s big, fat smelly rear-end into the utopians’ pipe dreams. No surprise Google chose a hybrid-fraud car to try to turn into a robo-car.
The Google car comes as no surprise to the trucking industry. Some trucks come with computer breaking and anti-rollover systems just in case. The only difference is that they’re programming navigation logic into the system. Luckily for Google, we’re helping program their systems with our use of smartphone Android systems.
David Berry http://www.txinsurancepro.com
A few years ago Mercedes Benz was very reluctant to introduce ABS on US market vehicles because if the ABS failed and there were an accident, the bottom feeding attorneys you see every fifteen minutes on your television would have a field day. Operating a motor vehicle is a serious activity and you would have to be goofy to allow a computer to take responsibility for your life on the road. I must admit that seeing a highway littered with overturned Prius’s with sparks and smoke coming out of them would be entertaining.
so, since this was an accident… um, let’s play this scenario…
officer pulls up to the scene and looks for all the drivers involved… notices that there is no driver in the principal car, thinking and hit-and-run – driver fled the scene of the accident… so then we need to find out who the owner is by running tags and then decides that this vehicle belongs to a company… so now, since no proof of insurance can be provided and no license to drive a vehicle… they now get 2 tickets and then a ticket for the accident… interesting as we give the info to the other drivers for the computer error, see you in court w/the vehicle in question (robots)…
P. Gopher: Are you kidding me? They’ve been working on these protype vehicles for 15 years. I received my Computer Sciences degree in 2002 and we watched a video about cars similar to this back then. My guess is you are one of those people that said the computer was just a fad, electric cars would never work and America would never outsource all the manufacturing jobs as it would be suicide.
Google must be testing out my insurance agent to be the first autonomous insurance agency because anytime I ever call or stop by their office nobody is there.
You must have St. Farm!
Did you ever think about what the heck we are going to be doing in 50 years. Won’t have to drive, we’ll have robots to do our work and errands, computers where we can buy stuff without leaving the house, computers to interact with other people without leaving the house. I wonder where humans are going to fit in.
I think that movie was called “I, Robot”…
that didn’t turn out too good, did it?
My guess:
5% of us will be making robots.
50% of us will work for the government.
Unemployment will be 45%. Sounds great!
Intresting I’m sure even with the built in safety features to avoid such collision the vehicle has to have time to react. So maybe if the second vehicle suddenly hit the breaks there wasnt enough time for the google prius to react.
How does the car avoid side and rear impact crashes?
No more drunk driving? The cars are legally no different than a car with cruise control, as long as a human is available to take over? Assuming the driver who takes over is sober. And you’ve got to be kidding me, comparing a completely autonomous car to cruise control?
There never has been, and there never will be, an engineer smart enough to outwit the dumbest and most irresponsible human beings. Toyota just got dragged through the mud on a bogus throttle software defect fiasco. I can only imagine what the bottom-feeding trial lawyers could do to a robo-car manufacturer.
Once more, reality will end up sticking it’s big, fat smelly rear-end into the utopians’ pipe dreams. No surprise Google chose a hybrid-fraud car to try to turn into a robo-car.
The Google car comes as no surprise to the trucking industry. Some trucks come with computer breaking and anti-rollover systems just in case. The only difference is that they’re programming navigation logic into the system. Luckily for Google, we’re helping program their systems with our use of smartphone Android systems.
David Berry
http://www.txinsurancepro.com
Gee David, I think you mean computer braking, not computer breaking. Most vehicles don’t need a computer to cause a mechanical failure.
A few years ago Mercedes Benz was very reluctant to introduce ABS on US market vehicles because if the ABS failed and there were an accident, the bottom feeding attorneys you see every fifteen minutes on your television would have a field day. Operating a motor vehicle is a serious activity and you would have to be goofy to allow a computer to take responsibility for your life on the road. I must admit that seeing a highway littered with overturned Prius’s with sparks and smoke coming out of them would be entertaining.
I wonder if anyone will put “How’s My Driving?” stickers on the back of these vehicles?
so, since this was an accident… um, let’s play this scenario…
officer pulls up to the scene and looks for all the drivers involved… notices that there is no driver in the principal car, thinking and hit-and-run – driver fled the scene of the accident… so then we need to find out who the owner is by running tags and then decides that this vehicle belongs to a company… so now, since no proof of insurance can be provided and no license to drive a vehicle… they now get 2 tickets and then a ticket for the accident… interesting as we give the info to the other drivers for the computer error, see you in court w/the vehicle in question (robots)…
Seriously? Have you used Google Maps or GPS lately…. Oops, that road’s not actually completed yet.
Oh that made my day. The truth in that statement drips true. That happened to me and I actually MISSED a meeting. Perfect Ins Guy :)
I agree, that’s the biggest head stratcher about this. I read that article, and all I could think about was Toonsis the Driving Cat.
P. Gopher: Are you kidding me? They’ve been working on these protype vehicles for 15 years. I received my Computer Sciences degree in 2002 and we watched a video about cars similar to this back then. My guess is you are one of those people that said the computer was just a fad, electric cars would never work and America would never outsource all the manufacturing jobs as it would be suicide.