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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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must confess I didn't see that one coming. awesome news.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/...mous-cars-2021 |
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Meet George Jetson, His boy Elroy.....
No thanks, i like to drive. |
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agreed. but there's certainly a market for this in the CBDs
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Goodbye Taxis
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Not necessarily. Theres still people who wont own cars, people who use taxis due to lack of parking spaces, people drinking on a night out.
I'm sure the 'driver' would still need to be sober and licensed etc to be behind the wheel. Personally, as someone who does enjoy driving I still could do without having to drive to work and back around a 2.5 hour return trip so I'd love it for this reason. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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maybe not. if it's fully autonomous and doesn't even have a steering wheel there's nothing the driver can do anyway. Would need a legislation change here I'm sure but just imagine - no designated driver!
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Awesome in one way, scary as hell in another .
If they can pull off the successful fully autonomous vehicle, I reckon it will open up a whole new market, think of the oldies that still have their marbles but are to scared to drive themselves, people with disabilities, this will be a good thing. It probably opens up a can of worms though, you can see people abusing the system. "Okay car" ....... "take kids to school and return", "okay car" ..... " go to the bottle shop and get me beer and return". Just joking, but humans are good at finding ways to abuse the system, interesting times ahead. |
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I'm amazed by the technology but I can see why so many are apprehensive. How long will it take before somebody hacks it and tells a car full of people to veer into a semi-trailer?
If there is one thing I'm sure of it's this: humans will never cease finding new and terrible ways to kill one another. |
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Bring it on!
What's the bet that assertive drivers will scare the crap out of these drones, the drones will go into a passive avoidance mode, pulling over idling by the side of the road whilst their occupants are safe and late watching the world pass them by. |
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And like any advancement in society there will be a certain amount of responsibility on the user not to abuse it. Will be up to future generations to figure out that stuff as it crops up. Cheap autonomous transport that the oldies/disabilities can order up to get around, there will be a time when they'll say how did they cope without it. |
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"Ford Motor Co plans to offer a fully automated driverless vehicle to commercial ride sharing fleets such as Uber in 2021, "
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Although I feel very underwhelmed by all this, it might make car ownership more viable in my older years and hopefully gopher free.
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Fully automated will never happen. Imagine if a car company was liable for every accident one of its vehicles had? Bankrupt in a year...
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I think the trick is going to be to convince everyone that autonomous cars aren't 100% safe, but that they are 100x safer than human driven cars
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That will be great for a Sunday cruise. Me, i'd rather steer and speed up or brake myself
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I can't wait to get one and have it making money for me, driving people around on busy Saturday night in the city.
Then I can spend Sundays cleaning all sorts of stains, (most of them unknown to science) from the interior. Where do I sign up?
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What a pile of horse****.
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We're miles behind everyone else on driver-assistance technologies, and no plans on how we're going to catch up, so I'm just sprouting a bunch of crap to cover that up and pretend we're not techno-dinosaurs. You've also got to remember that EVERYTHING in the USA is driven by lawsuits, so this is never going to happen. The liability issues are too horrendous to contemplate. |
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In fact, knowing Ford, "Autonomous" probably just means chaining a Mexican to the steering wheel.
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Hmm one word describes autonomous vehicle BORING.
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Donald is building a wall. Actually I think it might be Pablo doing the building?
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Imagine having to listen to his political rants on your trips between pubs. And I thought Somalian drivers who don't speak a word of Engrish were painful.
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plus What's interesting about the following, is how quickly the predicted times from various manufacturers have reduced. Quote:
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computers crash,vehicle computers go ga ga when they detect problems especially low volts,jumbo jets and the like have back up computers and still fall out the sky,i think for me personally i wouldnt like the idea of sitting in a car driven around by nothing but a computer of some sort,like somebody said,hackers could have a field day if that way inclined.
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The main doubt that is in my mind with the current batch of cars with some auto drive function is i still have my doubts they get enough road information to be fully Autonomous .
How would it be if every single car had its own little beacon that sends a signal out to every other vehicle in the immediate area X amount of distance somewhat like aircraft , and the car also receives some form of signal from sensors in the road telling the car precisely where it is on the road . I dont think this would be too hard to do, and it might open up a whole new series of industries . Imagine if all those cateye reflectors on the road had small blue tooth module or something similar or an infra red beam or something every x amount of distance to communicate with vehicles , it would be an extra form of Autonomous redundancy .......... or am i up the fairies again ![]() |
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