Cool, good for easing conjestion once they network them up, and bit of fuel savings to!
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Cool, good for easing conjestion once they network them up, and bit of fuel savings to!
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Lipstick up the nose you mean? Yeah!Originally Posted by oneofsix
A virus?? hack themtake control of their car. imagine the fun you could have
Just imagine the females putting their makeup on on the way to work and you cause the car to suddenly change directions.
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Highway Biker
What happens if you press the wrong button and you find your car driving to wellington with out you? Might need those automated petrol stations next.
Some people need it that's for sure. Would you still be able to use it, even if you dont have a licence?
I may be slow at getting things but..... no wait I'm just slow.
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Atually thats a fucking good question... If the car is self driving then you are just a passenger whom told it where to go then 5yr olds should be able to go see grandma in their parents car on their own technicallyWould you still be able to use it, even if you dont have a licence?
But does the car have to have a drivers licence
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Nope I meant it the way I said it. Its called CONTEXT.
Bad idea = accidents.......or vice verse......
Don't believe me google "Volvo failed autobraking"
As for driveless buses and taxis......they have been invented but I was referring more to the point of having a vehicle take you somewhere without you driving.
But I guess you take things quite literally, all the time.
Also there are lots of driverless train systems around the world.........get an education.
It kinda scares me that so many people on KB seem to think that because we do things a certain way in NZ/USA that the whole world works like that.
It may shock you to know that half the world does not own a personal, petrol-powered, vehicle.
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Actually hackers can already do this.A virus?? hack them
http://arstechnica.com/security/news...re-sensors.ars
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Occupants would probably be asleep, so they wouldn't care...
From the article, it sounds like it can already drive better than most of our drivers... It understands and actually obeys traffic lights...But does the car have to have a drivers licence
Rider in training
I suspect the biggest impediment to this technology would be lawyers. Hard to question a computer after a crash. Had to charge a machine with something. And who do you sue?
I recall reading about an expert computer medical diagnosis system that was developed in the US. It was able to more accurately diagnose patients than 90% of the doctors pitted against it.
It never got released - because no insurance company would insure it against a mis-diagnosis.
Grumpy Old Bastard
Now THAT would be unusual!... and actually obeys traffic lights...
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SH1 rider
Thought you would understand
that's what I was alluding to.
using China as an example it seems like they want to
yes and governments, they want to blame someone as well.
The car will still require a sober licensed driver. The Government will still want a driver to be nominally, at least, in control of the car, see p.dath's comments quoted above also the Government want license fees etc. I know there are other ways to collect fees but why shoot a cash cow before the udder dries up.
Highway Biker
Perhaps not writing in semi English might help.
Are you sure you're not Katman, he's "never" wrong either.
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Tissue for your issue?
Semi-english is all i know. What rat chatter do you speak?
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Does anyone know if NASA got back their supersonic flyer?
http://defensetech.org/2011/08/11/hy...-over-pacific/
Last I heard it was on autopilot.......
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Personally i can't wait to have a car which I don't need to drive. Just tell it where to go & have a nice snooze or whatever on the journey. Of particular interest to me is the mobility such vehicles will give the elderly, physically impaired, inept etc.
A friend in his 80's is still on the road & excuse my phrasing but he is fu#$%^g lethal! When the inevitable happens & his licence is revoked he will be stuffed, house bound & at the whim of carers. Tragic really.
So yeah, no, yeah, bring it on.
A self driving van would allow me to sleep on the trip down to Taupo, do a track day & then sleep on the way home. Marvellous!
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Maybe it didn't like the way it's owners treated it, so buggered off?
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