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How will driver-less cars work during storms? Will there be 4WDriverless vehicles in the snowbelt? Will driver-less cars be smart enough not to drive into high water in Houston this week?Will there be pools of commuter driverless cars vs. pools of interstate/longhaul driverless vacation cars you would book differently? book a car to take the family to Disney World, does the car wait in the hotel parking lot until your week is up. What about visiting other countries that still (God forbid) have only driver-cars, young people would soon never have learned to drive and couldn't rent a car in a foreign country. Sorry but I cannot see everything being worked out very quickly.
Who is going to clean the driverless car when some drunk pukes in it? And when the driverless car with the fresh puke in it comes to pick me up, how long will it take to get me another driverless car? Will I get a discount?I'd have to imagine that unsupervised people in driverless cars would treat them like crap and there would be a lot of vandalism. Of course, the answer to that would be 24/7 surveillance cameras in millions of driverless cars. Who will monitor that? Where will it be stored? Etc. These are honest questions; I haven't heard/read too much about the driverless car "model" where everyone would be using "cars for hire." Is the thinking that for-profit companies similar to taxi companies will spring up with fleets of cars that they will deploy and maintain?Obviously, none of these issues are insurmountable, but I think that even if widespread adoption of driverless cars become a reality (I should probably say, "when" it becomes a reality), lots of people will still prefer to own their own cars rather than rely solely on community cars.
Obviously, none of these issues are insurmountable, but I think that even if widespread adoption of driverless cars become a reality (I should probably say, "when" it becomes a reality), lots of people will still prefer to own their own cars rather than rely solely on community cars.
Agree. They'll never sway people away from giving up the option to have their own car. You can store things in it, hook up your Xbox and play since you'll be driven around anyway, even have your own fridge, only worry about your own bodily fluids being in it, etc. In major cities where it's already impractical for most to have a car, it'll be even less practical, more rural areas you'll not have to rely on your own car for everything.
The technology has already been worked out. Google alone has 10,000 hours of driver-less car testing in all kinds of scenarios. And yes their will be dozens of versions. It will not just be millions of Google eggs buzzing around. They will be large, small, luxury, basic, vans, trucks, buses and so on. You can request what you need.This brings up another cost savings. Request what you need. Going to the story to buy furniture? Have a pick-up or van take you there. Want to impress a date, luxury car. Get together with many friends, a party bus or van. This is far better than now, one car that is forced to meet all these needs.
No self driving car has been tested in bad weather. All 10,000 of those hours have been logged on sunny California days. I don't think winter weather is insurmountable for the tech, but we're not there yet, and it isn't even close to being "all worked out." A self driving car can't drive on roads where all of the lines, and half the signs, are covered in snow.
this didn't sound right but its absolutely true... just read about it this morning.
http://y105fm.com/car-safety-demonstration-ends-with-incredibly-ironic-crash/
This was funnyhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/driverless-cars-hit-the-road-almost-hit-each-other/
I like what this offers!There can be driverless RVs: I can sleep in my bed to work, brush my teeth, shower and change and STILL get to work on time!Who needs a house with a lawn to maintain or with exorbitant rent? Driverless mobile homes will fill the housing gap!
http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road
I get what your trying to say ... But in a world of driverless cars all connected to each other and no parking, going from Mequon to Mitchell airport on a Friday at 5pm in the rain will take 15 minutes. You will no longer have a commute that will take much time.