Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? 792
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to this long article from EE Times about the 'Self-Navigating Vehicle,' the answer is a resounding yes. Many car experts think that autonomous vehicles which avoid collisions and communicate wirelessly with other cars will be the norm in two to three decades. In the meantime, the enabling technologies for self-navigating cars are emerging, from sensors embedded in the brake or accelerator pedals to more powerful computers. Already, partial solutions exist for adaptive cruise control or for staying in a highway lane. One day, we'll be able to do something else than driving our cars through traffic jams, saving us about two hours per working day. This is the future that engineers are building, but will you accept to be driven by your car? So many people like driving that the concept of a completely autonomous car might be delayed for psychological reasons, not technical ones. This summary contains selected details of the original article."
it's called the bus (Score:3, Funny)
Think of the chauffeurs... (Score:2, Funny)
No problems not driving (Score:3, Funny)
Pfft some of us are already doing it... (Score:5, Funny)
Not that bad once you get used to it, really.
Parking lots (Score:2, Funny)
Re:urban legends (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This would be great (Score:1, Funny)
The Right Sandwich? (Score:2, Funny)
It helps to be making the right sandwich [ebay.com]
Re:I don't think I could ever trust it (Score:3, Funny)
And stay peeved for the rest of your life.
Re:Humans shouldn't control vehicles (Score:3, Funny)
I want to die like my granddad, peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming and carrying on like the people in the car he was driving.
isn't that a "train"? (Score:2, Funny)
The train cabs can't move off the rails. But PRT - private rapid transit - can.
We used to have that!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Amazing technological breakthrough (Score:2, Funny)
Oops, nevermind... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't think I could ever trust it (Score:2, Funny)
And that reason is: to give George Carlin something to carp about. Why isn't it called a near hit? If you had nearly hit something, you'd have missed it. On the other hand, if you nearly missed something, doesn't that mean you hit it?
Cheap bandwidth (Score:2, Funny)
However, there may be something like a 1/4 second delay for the signal to travel all the way around the world and back.