Honda To Test Self-Driving Cars In California 34
An anonymous reader writes: Reuters reports that Honda has received approval from the State of California to test their self-driving cars on public roads. They join not just Google and Tesla, but Mercedes Benz, Nissan, and several other companies with permission to test. Take note: autonomous cars are no longer a fringe research project for a few future-focused companies. The industry as a whole is recognizing that autonomous driving technology will be a vital part of transportation by car sometime in the future.
One problem (Score:1)
Too bad there won't be enough people working/able to afford them!
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Once cars are "autos", you won't need to own one. Humans Need Not Apply as drivers anymore too.
Re:Off road (Score:1)
Re:Off road (Score:4, Informative)
Talk about delusional.. Have you ever been off-road before?
The question remains... (Score:2)
... will it respect the Asian driving style?
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Mr Trump, is that you?
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Do you think that opposition to illegal immigration requires you to make racist jokes?
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Do you think the sole criteria for becoming a US resident
Do you think the word "criteria" is singular?
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Your mom will not miss walking around a store to pick up a few items and than waiting in a check out line to go home again. I would think that she would enjoy shopping on the internet and having the items delivered in a self driving vehicle. I think that self driving vehicles will obsolete almost all or our present commercial areas. It will eliminate a huge number of jobs. It will also save 10's of thousands of death each year and hundreds of thousands of injuries each year. It will also save hundreds
Duplication (Score:2, Insightful)
Given that the intention is develop an autonomous vehicle it should make sense for all manufacturers to work on a common system, rather than a diverse range of competing hardware technologies. At the end of the day, the idea is not to distinguish the company's based on the quality of the AI, but on the service it provides to the customer.
This eliminates duplication of effort and associated costs. Further, a single system can be secured much better that an entire eco-system of buggy solutions.
Thank God! (Score:2)
When they hit your car, you can fight Honda's legal department, in Santa Clara's Superior Court whose sole purpose is to caters to the needs of the wealthy.
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Honda used to have a good reputation for quality
People are suckers.
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As a truck driver who has a little of this tech fitted to my truck already (adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking) I'm not worrying about losing my job any time soon. I live in a country which has lots of rain, fog and where it snows. The ACC and AEBS shit themselves and turn off when it rains heavy or as soon as the front of the truck gets a light covering of snow. Currently no autonomous car can drive in rain, fog or snow. The AEBS also has false positives ocassionally giving heart stopp
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The ACC and other bits you have on your truck are designed with stringent operational limitations to reduce liability issues.
The field of vision they have is nothing like what an automated vehicle has.
My decade-old car has ACC and what spooks it is quite predictable - just like a blinkered horse - which is what you'd expect from a very simple system with only one POV of the road ahead - unlike the 360 degree multispectral vision that autonomous cars have.
Autonomous vehicles are nothing like these simplistic
Just what we need (Score:1)
I misread that as "self-destructing" cars... (Score:1)
I misread that as "self-destructing" cars and was puzzled for a bit.