Police Officers could actually do their job, protecting citizens from crimes against body and property.
This technology could help all sorts of stereotypical driver flaws. Women, Asians, Teenage Boys…
90% of drivers believe they are above average drivers. Now 100% of driverless cars could be above average drivers.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/hack-attack-on-iran-s-nuclear-facility-easier-than-thought-1.715318[/quote]
Hmmm. Note the name of the government authority quoted in the newspaper article. I suspect that resistance, to driverless cars, is futile:
“Things that sounded extremely unlikely a few years ago are now coming along,” said Scott Borg, director of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit…".
Edited to fix (futile) HTML BOLD attempt.
how do people envisage the design and shape of these cars changing with this technology?
interesting topic
Let me just say that I think it is cool as shit that there are vehicles being designed that are driverless. Just to think for a second about the time we live in now is pretty cool. I only posted the links because someone brought it up earlier and was dismissed as irrational. I am pretty sure the companies, or government looking into this tech has a very large part of their research department dedicated to trying to come up with ways of preventing hackers or how to deal with them. But, where we are now IF there was a mass production and use of driverless cars on the road, hackers would be a major concern to public safety
[quote]yolo84 wrote:
how do people envisage the design and shape of these cars changing with this technology?
interesting topic[/quote]
Design will probably want to aid the recognition technology used by the car. The more the car can “see”, the safer the ride can be.
Yeah I’m not comfortable with a computer driving me and yes I’m aware computers fly airplanes for the most part but I LIKE to drive. Would not purchase.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
1st of all I am not living in fear of advancements in tech. I was just pointing out where you were wrong in your other statement about shit that cant be hacked. Here is a link about China hacking shit[/quote]
I didn’t say you were living in fear of advanced technology. You’re living in fear of what people will do with those advancements.
Do you honestly think that China has ANYTHING to gain by destroying our infrastructure? Of course not. No country with the technological advancements necessary to destroy our infrastructure would benefit at all from doing so. They’re hacking into our shit so they can steal it, not destroy it. It saves them tons of money in research costs if they can just steal technology rather than work to develop it themselves.
I really don’t know what is so hard to understand about that. The U.S. is a major consumer of Chinese goods. What the fuck do you think is going to happen to the Chinese economy if they destroy so much of our shit that our economy goes in the tank and we stop buying a ton of the stuff that we currently buy from them because we can’t afford it anymore?
[quote]cakewalk wrote:
[quote]mbdix wrote:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/hack-attack-on-iran-s-nuclear-facility-easier-than-thought-1.715318[/quote]
Hmmm. Note the name of the government authority quoted in the newspaper article. I suspect that resistance, to driverless cars, is futile:
“Things that sounded extremely unlikely a few years ago are now coming along,” said Scott Borg, director of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit…".
Edited to fix (futile) HTML BOLD attempt.[/quote]
Exactly. This guy is just one more in a long, long line of people whose career depends on us Americans being scared shitless of something. Of course these doomsday scenarios exist, but the more pertinent issue is how likely they are to occur. It’s not like there won’t be some serious research and development going into preventing these sorts of things. That’s why virtually all of these doomsday scenarios haven’t become reality.
Is this going to effect Nascar?
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
Is this going to effect Nascar?[/quote]
If we’re lucky it will become obsolete.
Fingers crossed.
Even if these cars are mass produced what will the price tag on one of these be? I imagine it will be pretty high.
[quote]stefan128 wrote:
Even if these cars are mass produced what will the price tag on one of these be? I imagine it will be pretty high.[/quote]
Free: They need to be handed out like Obamaphones, ya know!!!
In all seriousness if they were smart it would just be an upgrade on your current car like Onstar for non-GM vehicles. Put some sensors on the car, upgrade some software for the onboard computer and your off.
[quote]stefan128 wrote:
Even if these cars are mass produced what will the price tag on one of these be? I imagine it will be pretty high.[/quote]
Who knows? The cost right now is about 300K, but it’s dropping exponentially. In Part 3 of the article I originally linked it mentions that the cost trajectory of the gigabyte went from 300K in 1981 to 10K in less than ten years, then from 10K to 10 dollars about ten years later and now a gigabyte costs about 10 cents. These cars are following a similar trajectory.
In 2008, these cars were only capable of traveling two blocks at 25mph on a closed course. Now, they can travel at 75mph on the highway in real-world conditions. That’s an amazing acceleration of development.
I’m sure that whatever happens, the cars will be affordable. There is simply too much incentive in the short and long term for Google to not continue developing them to the point of viability, cost-wise.
If you can turn it on and off, I’m so down for this it isn’t even funny.
Being able to go get 4 Jameson’s after work rather than 2? Fuck it how about 6 or 8 Jamesons?
Hell yeah, this is gold.
I have an hour+ commute everyday though, so I’ll be posting in the porn addiction tread roughtly 2-3 months after this comes out.
Here is some advanced technology I can get behind
It will be interesting to see what industries virtually disappear as a result of this shift and what new ones will pop up.
I suppose motels will become mostly obsolete. The car repair sector will mostly disappear as well. Oil companies will get hit hard since the efficient driving will reduce gas consumption. Of course, that might be offset by more people taking longer trips in their cars that they wouldn’t otherwise take if they had to actually do all the driving themselves.
I also wonder what sort of industries a savvy investor could get in on the ground floor of. I’m sure things like toilets or miniature showers and microwaves and that sort of thing might become popular. People will be able to just get up in the morning and get ready for work while they’re on their way there, rather than beforehand. Maybe companies that begin making plumbing products for cars, not unlike the shit that’s in Winnebagos, will start booming. Obviously, whatever car companies are clairvoyant enough to link up with Google and start applying their technology to their vehicles will be ahead of the curve, as will Google itself. I know that Lincoln and Audi have already started developing their own driverless cars. I’m actually considering sinking some extra money into Google and the Ford Motor Company in the near future. Google’s stock is pretty much already a no-brainer smart investment, but I think Ford’s stock could end up being very significantly higher than it’s current 12 dollar price in the coming years.
[quote]dmaddox wrote:
In all seriousness if they were smart it would just be an upgrade on your current car like Onstar for non-GM vehicles. Put some sensors on the car, upgrade some software for the onboard computer and your off.[/quote]
They are smart. That’s why cars are harder to service yourself than ever. I doubt they will make the upgrade cheap. Car makers will probably buy out anyone selling upgrade kits to consumers, forcing you to buy a new car.
[quote]kakno wrote:
[quote]dmaddox wrote:
In all seriousness if they were smart it would just be an upgrade on your current car like Onstar for non-GM vehicles. Put some sensors on the car, upgrade some software for the onboard computer and your off.[/quote]
They are smart. That’s why cars are harder to service yourself than ever. I doubt they will make the upgrade cheap. [quote]
So much truth here. The days of the dad laying under a car and showing his son how to change the oil is coming to an end. I have replaced a fuel filter and alternator myself on my 2001 F-150. On my wife’s 2012 Expedition, its a bitch just to get the battery out. If/When these smart vehicles go out on the production floor, self maintaining your car will be the thing of the past.
FUCK ALL THIS
GODDAMNIT I WANT MY FLYING CAR.
BLADERUNNER PROMISED ME THIS SHIT
I’d be all over these. Think of all the extra time we’d have for activities now that we didn’t have to drive.