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Driving to the future

Why would you want to?

P.S. Can you imagine a self drive Trad?

How about self drive M3W or even a motorbike?

VERY frightening....

Impressive, but not a world I want to be in.
Yes, on a busy motorway or in a congested urban area, I could imagine using it. But on open sweeping country roads? No thank you!

Unless, of course, one could have the machine drive you back from the pub after a bottle of red wine...THEN I'd use it.

An astonishing achievement.
Very impressive.

There's the occasional hesitation - eg before reaching junctions - that looks like an extremely cautious driver... and in this world would find itself rear-ended before too long.
[Though the effect may be exaggerated by the accelerated film speed]

I wonder if this may extend "driving" into old age and infimity. I guess the authorities will require a driver in attendance who is able to comply with driver health requirements but in the longer term, when confidence has grown in driverless cars, maybe the requirement will be less stringent allowing older less able people to get around in their own car.

Makes me wonder how good a Tesla or like would be at seeing me on my bike. Would it react to a horn and look round? Or flashed lights? Is it programmed to say " Sorry Mate I Didnt See You!" in a voice like Stephen Hawking?

And I wonder how well it would cope with an unlit country lane with no road markings and tarmac that fades into roadside mud.

In the end I just dont see the point. After all, a car doesnt go anywhere without an occupant and if the occupant / human computer is trained to drive it, why bother with an electronic computer with far less processing power.

First of all, humans are pretty good already at "looking but failing to see" - if it happens just 1% less with machines that's got to be a good thing. (Let's not discuss the size of the 'if' here).

There's a huge point to cars driving themselves on many journeys; I could read a book, catch up on emails, etc. Etc. whilst on those boring motorways and trunk roads that make driving a chore. Switch it off when the going gets interesting or I just want a drive.

And as has been said previously, getting back from the pub will be a lot easier!

Not for me thank you , I dont wish for a machine to show me how to drive I have and thats enough.

By the way a great song but a bit creepy for this . Must be a better song .

I completely agree. One of the main aspects about these kinds of driverless technologies is that the vehicles should in fact be many times safer than cars driven by human pilots.

They have 4G comms, radar, ultrasonics, complete 360 degree vision, and processing power far faster than a normal human's ability to integrate information multiple sources simultaneously. Fighter pilots and driving gods might outperform them in these areas, but not the rest of us.

And of course their biggest single advantage is that, however much they might like to think otherwise, human drivers are completely unable to fully and accurately understand the intentions and motivations of other drivers, especially those which they haven't yet seen or heard.

Autonomous vehicles, on the other hand, would be able to communicate with each other and establish coordinating routes way before they come into a dangerous range.