[Cooky]

latest and higher-class cars have so many sensors and electronics systems to be considered very close to self driving
and we are talking about stock cars, not a group of test cars

how are they close to self driving? you have to have your eyes on the road at all times and steer the vehicle, accelerate, decelerate, etc

even a blind guy was able to travel to work in google's self driving car, I don't think all the 'sensors and electronic systems' of todays cars are going to come anywhere close to that capability. you literally don't have to touch anything.

[Iridion]

latest and higher-class cars have so many sensors and electronics systems to be considered very close to self driving
and we are talking about stock cars, not a group of test cars

how are they close to self driving? you have to have your eyes on the road at all times and steer the vehicle, accelerate, decelerate, etc

even a blind guy was able to travel to work in google's self driving car, I don't think all the 'sensors and electronic systems' of todays cars are going to come anywhere close to that capability. you literally don't have to touch anything.

-cars that can park themselves (they steer on their own)
-distance sensors and braking systems that brake automatically at a certain distance are growing to higher speeds (up to 50kmh atm, which is city speed)
-many cars have: antisleep, anti lane-crossing, cruise control, light sensors, everything. so yeah cars are close to being self driven w/o google's test car
-plus the more and more advanced automatic shifts, electronic controls such as abs

obliviously actual cars arent pushed to the limit, but for the average driver the above stuff eliminates pretty much all the possible downsides/difficulties of driving. a whole automatic cars like you is for extreme situations and cant be referred in a normal situation imo

[JustRK]

Agree with iri, if you could program destinations and stop light recognition most higher classed cars are basically self driving with their proximity censors that over-ride user controls in the event they begin to sway out of a lane or come too close to a vehicle.

but most self driving cars are just prototypes at that and the problem of mass producing them would be having to train people to over ride the system in case of a malfunction or emergency as well as having an interlinked traffic light and driver to operator data base in the event a child is stuck in a car alone without an adult.

[Iridion]

also, i would never ever drive an automtic car. the only electronic controls i'd like to have on a car are security controls (must be able to disable them) and of course no automatic shifter

[Cooky]

yes todays cars do have a lot of automatic featured like iri listed, but I still think its a bit of a stretch to say that todays cars are to be 'considered very close' to self driving cars

just my opinion

[Pein]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

[Madprox]

Just saying, 100% self-driven cars from point A to B, are already a thing, like, that's already been invented and made.

[Iridion]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

of course not

its not like 10 yr old kids are allowed to drink alcohol because they can lift a bottle and drink it

[Pein]

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they already have self driving cars

Are you fkin kidding me?  

nope

The Google project team has equipped a test group of at least ten cars, consisting of six Toyota Prius, an Audi TT, and three Lexus RX450h,[14] each accompanied in the driver's seat by one of a dozen drivers with unblemished driving records and in the passenger seat by one of Google's engineers. The car has traversed San Francisco's Lombard Street, famed for its steep hairpin turns and through city traffic. The vehicles have driven over the Golden Gate Bridge and around Lake Tahoe.[4] The system drives at the speed limit it has stored on its maps and maintains its distance from other vehicles using its system of sensors. The system provides an override that allows a human driver to take control of the car by stepping on the brake or turning the wheel, similar to cruise control systems already found in many cars today.[3][15]

In August 2012, the team announced that they have completed over 300,000 autonomous-driving miles (500 000 km) accident-free, typically have about a dozen cars on the road at any given time, and are starting to test them with single drivers instead of in pairs.[18] Four U.S. states have passed laws permitting autonomous cars as of December 2013: Nevada, Florida, California, and Michigan.[19] A law proposed in Texas would establish criteria for allowing "autonomous motor vehicles".[20][21]

In April 2014, the team announced that their vehicles have now logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles[22].

LOL I AM NOT EVEN FKIN READING. png but I believe you.

he quoted that from a random article/google lol

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do anyone think a device will be invented that can store informations in our brain?

[Pokeh]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

I'm positive something like an automated breathalyzer will be required to start your engine or something but yeah if cars do become automated then i don't really see the point in having one. Alcohol limit will still be 21 or w.e it is in your country.

[Iridion]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

I'm positive something like an automated breathalyzer will be required to start your engine or something but yeah if cars do become automated then i don't really see the point in having one. Alcohol limit will still be 21 or w.e it is in your country.

or simply his parents will be careful and avoid letting the kid take the car? perhaps like it have always been.
this is why we cant get a clear prevision of the future: we cannot keep simple concepts that way and we abstract even the simplest aspects.

quick example: we (meh) get all excited about an automated car, hoping that soon cars will drive automatically and we (another meh) underline how the google team has made many miles with an automated car and a blind man was able to "drive" one; yet we don't know that the combustion engine that moves the majority of the world's car is more than a hundered years old and that the major development in the car industry has been made in that field - not in electronics or all the kinky stuff attention is focused on thesedays.

[Pein]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

I'm positive something like an automated breathalyzer will be required to start your engine or something but yeah if cars do become automated then i don't really see the point in having one. Alcohol limit will still be 21 or w.e it is in your country.

or simply his parents will be careful and avoid letting the kid take the car? perhaps like it have always been.
this is why we cant get a clear prevision of the future: we cannot keep simple concepts that way and we abstract even the simplest aspects.

quick example: we (meh) get all excited about an automated car, hoping that soon cars will drive automatically and we (another meh) underline how the google team has made many miles with an automated car and a blind man was able to "drive" one; yet we don't know that the combustion engine that moves the majority of the world's car is more than a hundered years old and that the major development in the car industry has been made in that field - not in electronics or all the kinky stuff attention is focused on thesedays.

mechanics is the basics, but still... these hybrid electric cars improves the efficiency and performance when the consumption of fuel matters a lot these days making it more environment friendly, every field contributes... cars should not exist just with the help of mechanics

[Iridion]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

I'm positive something like an automated breathalyzer will be required to start your engine or something but yeah if cars do become automated then i don't really see the point in having one. Alcohol limit will still be 21 or w.e it is in your country.

or simply his parents will be careful and avoid letting the kid take the car? perhaps like it have always been.
this is why we cant get a clear prevision of the future: we cannot keep simple concepts that way and we abstract even the simplest aspects.

quick example: we (meh) get all excited about an automated car, hoping that soon cars will drive automatically and we (another meh) underline how the google team has made many miles with an automated car and a blind man was able to "drive" one; yet we don't know that the combustion engine that moves the majority of the world's car is more than a hundered years old and that the major development in the car industry has been made in that field - not in electronics or all the kinky stuff attention is focused on thesedays.

mechanics is the basics, but still... these hybrid electric cars improves the efficiency and performance when the consumption of fuel matters a lot these days making it more environment friendly, every field contributes... cars should not exist just with the help of mechanics

cars would not exist with the help of mechanics
thats not my point anyway

[Pein]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

I'm positive something like an automated breathalyzer will be required to start your engine or something but yeah if cars do become automated then i don't really see the point in having one. Alcohol limit will still be 21 or w.e it is in your country.

or simply his parents will be careful and avoid letting the kid take the car? perhaps like it have always been.
this is why we cant get a clear prevision of the future: we cannot keep simple concepts that way and we abstract even the simplest aspects.

quick example: we (meh) get all excited about an automated car, hoping that soon cars will drive automatically and we (another meh) underline how the google team has made many miles with an automated car and a blind man was able to "drive" one; yet we don't know that the combustion engine that moves the majority of the world's car is more than a hundered years old and that the major development in the car industry has been made in that field - not in electronics or all the kinky stuff attention is focused on thesedays.

mechanics is the basics, but still... these hybrid electric cars improves the efficiency and performance when the consumption of fuel matters a lot these days making it more environment friendly, every field contributes... cars should not exist just with the help of mechanics

cars would not exist with the help of mechanics
thats not my point anyway

most basically, it would exist with mechanics by carnot's theorem

[Pokeh]

if self driving cars are produced and used commonly, will there be:-

license required for driving?

kids like "Ooo yea i'm only a 10 yr old kid and i can still DRIVE my dad's car!!" ?

I'm positive something like an automated breathalyzer will be required to start your engine or something but yeah if cars do become automated then i don't really see the point in having one. Alcohol limit will still be 21 or w.e it is in your country.

or simply his parents will be careful and avoid letting the kid take the car? perhaps like it have always been.

people will always be retarded and kids will always drive drunk and underage. It's going to happen no matter what, and it still happens today.