I believe the “large numbers” of autonomous cars on the road by 2035…. but not in 2017 at least in the US. Way too fast considering the economy, the price tag, and the reality of people still jobless or just coming out of the financial crisis to some reasonable degree of financial viability.
Obama promised that we would have a million electric/hybrids on the road by 2015. He is only 826,000 short of that goal. I had to laugh the other day when he was speaking at a car plant ballyhooing him saving the Auto Industry. Two problems, the plant was shut down for a time due to lack of demand for the small and hybrid cars and it was a Ford plant who didn’t take the bailout funds he was bragging about. He should have gone to GM or Chrysler to do that speech since they actually took government money.
agent2, I don’t think I am ready to be George Jetson yet and I do enjoy driving. Driving is very dangerous, especially with a lot of congestion on the Interstates, freeways, many of them 6 or 8 lanes wide. Couple that with yuppies on their cells talking or texting doing 70+ and you are asking for trouble. I am with you on the hackers doing harm. If they can hack Target, Home Depot and other businesses, how hard would it be to hack a car computer?
I guess you “ctrl,alt and delete” doing 70mph….who would be at fault in a accident if two car’s both driven by the computer hit each other? Insurance carriers will need to start to develop polciy language to address this (along with the courts).
Driverless vehicles will be blessing to the aging population (and their children/care givers) who need a vehicle to conduct their daily life s, but due to health, vision, other reasons, should probably not be driving. Taking away mom or dad’s car keys is traumatic.
All good comments so far… my worry is once these cars are available, how long will it be before Big Brother demands all vehicles become “driver less”… Will they take away our freedom to drive and say the computer controlled cars do it better?! And forget trying to get anywhere in a hurry. The computer will probably tell you it is only going to move at 55 mph on the highway for YOUR safety!
I believe the “large numbers” of autonomous cars on the road by 2035…. but not in 2017 at least in the US. Way too fast considering the economy, the price tag, and the reality of people still jobless or just coming out of the financial crisis to some reasonable degree of financial viability.
Obama promised that we would have a million electric/hybrids on the road by 2015. He is only 826,000 short of that goal. I had to laugh the other day when he was speaking at a car plant ballyhooing him saving the Auto Industry. Two problems, the plant was shut down for a time due to lack of demand for the small and hybrid cars and it was a Ford plant who didn’t take the bailout funds he was bragging about. He should have gone to GM or Chrysler to do that speech since they actually took government money.
For your information Agent, there are over 3M hybrids sold as of 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_vehicles_in_the_United_States#Historical_sales_1999-2013
I don’t know…..Windows has been around for 20+ years and it’s still buggy. What will a car do when it’s OS bugs out? Or hackers find a new target.
Or will the autonomous cars be able to react quickly enough when the non auto cars pull a dumb maneuver?
Besides, I do like to drive most of the time.
agent2, I don’t think I am ready to be George Jetson yet and I do enjoy driving. Driving is very dangerous, especially with a lot of congestion on the Interstates, freeways, many of them 6 or 8 lanes wide. Couple that with yuppies on their cells talking or texting doing 70+ and you are asking for trouble. I am with you on the hackers doing harm. If they can hack Target, Home Depot and other businesses, how hard would it be to hack a car computer?
I guess you “ctrl,alt and delete” doing 70mph….who would be at fault in a accident if two car’s both driven by the computer hit each other? Insurance carriers will need to start to develop polciy language to address this (along with the courts).
Driverless vehicles will be blessing to the aging population (and their children/care givers) who need a vehicle to conduct their daily life s, but due to health, vision, other reasons, should probably not be driving. Taking away mom or dad’s car keys is traumatic.
All good comments so far… my worry is once these cars are available, how long will it be before Big Brother demands all vehicles become “driver less”… Will they take away our freedom to drive and say the computer controlled cars do it better?! And forget trying to get anywhere in a hurry. The computer will probably tell you it is only going to move at 55 mph on the highway for YOUR safety!
As long as I can get a driverless Corvette I am okay with it.