http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-latest-chapter-for-self-driving-car.html

4/28/2014 10:19:19 AM

Quote :

"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90042092 the moslems are one step ahead"

Seems to be on its way to a reality in a few years:

http://www.masdarcity.ae/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdar_City#Transport_system



[Edited on April 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM. Reason : ]

4/28/2014 12:19:48 PM

5/23/2014 4:50:14 PM

The republicans will vehemently oppose this as communism.

5/23/2014 5:15:02 PM

5/28/2014 9:43:49 AM

getting pretty close

10/10/2014 2:34:52 PM

Quote :

"transportation will be dominated by ubiquitous, small, energy-efficient taxi vehicles, only much cheaper than today's cabs. Without the burden of a human driver, fares will only cost slightly more than the cost of fuel"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/exclusive-google-and-uber-are-going-to-war-over-taxis
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/uber-opening-robotics-research-facility-in-pittsburgh-to-build-self-driving-cars/

2/2/2015 6:23:13 PM

Quote :

"transportation of goods across the country takes place significantly via semi trucks. though many people will lose their jobs, the economic advantages of not having to pay people to sit in a truck their entire life will be unavoidable, and these companies will adopt self-driving systems as soon as safely possible. cost of transportation of goods will decrease, which will decrease the cost of goods that we pay, across the board."

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8556791/self-driving-semi-big-rig-freightliner-inspiration-truck

5/6/2015 4:13:31 PM

that fucker better transform

[Edited on May 6, 2015 at 4:15 PM. Reason : can't wait for the month long media coverage one one of these things has an accident]

5/6/2015 4:14:38 PM

^^
so, the noble art of trucking will become completely obsolete

that makes me vaguely sad, honestly.

5/7/2015 11:06:21 AM

it's been 5 years since i posted this thread. seems pretty inevitable at this point. media reports on it regularly, the idea is starting to enter the general consciousness. Uber is positioning itself to be the self-driving taxi solution I originally mentioned, with Tesla possibly being the first auto maker that wants to be the auto maker AND the taxi service.

Y'all ready yet?

10/3/2015 9:59:20 PM

Law enforcement, who rely heavily on revenue from speeding tickets, will try to put a stop to any machine that can be programed to obey the law at all times.

Auto Insurance companies, who profit from the fallibility of humans behind the wheel, will fight any attempts to drain their income.

10/4/2015 11:32:30 AM

^yep. we have had the technology to limit the speed of a vehicle based on the road it's on for years. we haven't done it because speed limits are not about keeping people safe. they are about making money for the state.

[Edited on October 4, 2015 at 12:31 PM. Reason : i look forward to this. i hate driving, insurance companies, and the police.]

10/4/2015 12:30:24 PM

So if a self driving car causes an accident, who is liable? This is the main reason why I think we are a long way off from this being common.

10/4/2015 12:44:02 PM

Oh, it completely changes the concept of liability in an accident.

"I wasn't driving...my car was"

The lability transfers to the auto maker and software developer, imo

10/4/2015 12:46:31 PM

Software Engineers will quickly need to get PE licenses.

10/4/2015 12:54:45 PM

The mafia will hire Chinese and neckbeard hackers as hitmen instead of wiring up car bombs

10/4/2015 1:01:45 PM

I want to see how self-driving cars will handle aggressive drivers around the DC area. The footage I've seen from Google seems to show the cars waiting out uncomfortable situations, and I think people will learn how to slow down these automated cars by swerving at them and then taking their lane after the car slows down.

10/4/2015 3:44:16 PM

they're already handling some of those types of scenarios. they're not just following traffic laws verbatim. they are sensing the environment around them and reacting to it, and we can continuously optimize those reactions based on the results that are seen in the real world.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2850530/Google-teaches-driverless-cars-AGGRESSIVE-Vehicles-nudge-traffic-compete-pushy-drivers.html

Quote :

"I think people will learn how to slow down these automated cars by swerving at them and then taking their lane after the car slows down."

people can already do that with human-driven cars. why would they be more likely to do it with self-driving cars? people are generally just trying to get from place A to place B safely, not trying to one-up every thing on the street they can bully around...

and if you are in a car that somebody is getting aggressive with, the car you want to be in is the one that is going to calmly and safely respond, not the one that's going to get offended and try to be an asshole back to it, increasing the likelihood of a real accident.

[Edited on October 4, 2015 at 4:00 PM. Reason : .]

10/4/2015 3:53:08 PM

Quote :

"people are generally just trying to get from place A to place B safely, not trying to one-up every thing on the street they can bully around... "

you've lived in New York long enough to know that every cab driver in that city will turn left from the right lane and cut off 4 cars with the right-of-way if it gets them somewhere 5 seconds faster.

10/5/2015 10:56:08 AM

10/13/2015 2:47:53 PM

can't wait for this to happen so we can merge Tech Talk and The Garage into one section

10/13/2015 2:52:11 PM

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/14/9533539/teslas-cars-can-drive-themselves-starting-tomorrow

10/14/2015 11:51:20 PM

OP only got one thing right in his vision of the future

Quote :

"...nymore. transportation will be dominated by ubiquitouser"

10/15/2015 9:14:42 AM

how about the dozens of sensors though. yes?

10/15/2015 10:01:16 AM

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/10/22/drivers-are-being-idiots-with-teslas-new-autopilot-features/

Quote :

"In the video above, if you slow it down, you’ll see the driver traveling at high speed with his hands off the steering wheel and busy filming. The car sounds the alarm to take control, which he doesn’t acknowledge until it begins drifting naturally to the left — the driver saves himself just in time by jerking the steering wheel the other way."

10/22/2015 4:57:12 PM

I support the complete legislative banning of all of these technologies. This is a path towards job killing socialism.

10/24/2015 1:16:03 AM

Thanks. We needed the old white man perspective ITT.


[Edited on October 24, 2015 at 1:20 AM. Reason : Though this has nothing to do with socialism]

10/24/2015 1:19:03 AM

it does. robots have taken over manufacturing in the US... and what is left is outsourced. trucking is the next industry under fire from the automobile-borgs and eventually that industry will falter. we will still have an innovation class for a while, but since we export all technology production to china, how long do we really expect our collective innovation to keep us afloat?

not to mention rare earth metal supplies.

in 20 years, where do you see the american economy? (if 20 years down the line nothing changes and TWW still exists, and I am wrong, i will fully acknowledge i wasn't able to fully predict the future)

10/24/2015 1:29:04 AM

Yamaha Motobot

Coming to a racetrack near you



Video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3294047/Meet-Motobot-Yamaha-unveils-roborider-race-round-track-200mph-soon-taking-self-driving-cars.html

10/29/2015 1:12:01 AM

don't optimize for jobs. optimize for (societal) wealth. automated wealth creation is much more interesting than plebe wage driven wealth creation

[Edited on October 29, 2015 at 11:49 AM. Reason : .]

10/29/2015 11:48:59 AM

^^ very cool, i wonder if it's based off the ghostrider work from Berkley that started with the first DRC?

10/29/2015 12:23:48 PM

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/driverless-cars-are-this-centurys-space-race/417672/

12/1/2015 3:05:31 PM

12/1/2015 5:44:23 PM

[Edited on July 28, 2016 at 12:28 PM. Reason : itshappening.gif]

7/28/2016 12:28:28 PM

I, too, believe in a future :3

7/28/2016 12:53:34 PM

My brother would suck Elon Musks cock if presented. Bet him 50 bucks that all trucks will not be self automated in 5 years. Going to be more like 20.

7/28/2016 7:03:27 PM

it could happen in 5 years but it won't ever happen. even in 20 years, there will still be a lot of companies that rather keep the cheap, conventional trucks they own than take the leap in up-front costs.

7/28/2016 7:07:10 PM

I remember reading what Indy wrote and thinking this is what horse lovers thought when cars came out. Very odd read.

7/28/2016 9:00:14 PM

https://consumerist.com/2016/08/18/uber-launching-self-driving-ride-share-vehicles-in-pittsburgh-this-month

8/18/2016 10:35:27 AM

[Edited on August 18, 2016 at 11:03 AM. Reason : yaaaaaaas]

8/18/2016 11:03:11 AM

that escalated quickly

8/18/2016 11:20:25 AM

I still feel like all it will take is one or two wrecks and the lawsuits that follow for this to end quickly. I believe this would lead to less wrecks overall probably but when they do happen the lawsuits will get ridiculous I am sure.

8/18/2016 11:34:55 AM

There have been wrecks, and in this case there will be human co-drivers in the beginning.

8/18/2016 11:37:37 AM

I just want a car that can drive long drives on the interstate. I like driving around town.

8/18/2016 11:53:51 AM

http://jalo.ps/i4X3duG

9/14/2016 1:05:12 AM

Quote :

" Within the next 5-10 years, I hope to transition my career to pursuing this vision."

here we go....



could probably get in somewhere without the udacity credential, but it will def make it easier. and the curriculum will be nice to have, rather than having to figure out and learn all the pieces by myself

[Edited on October 4, 2016 at 10:43 AM. Reason : itshappening.gif]

10/4/2016 10:41:44 AM

Nice! Congrats man.

10/4/2016 10:52:15 AM

https://github.com/udacity/self-driving-car

10/7/2016 8:51:43 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/technology/driverless-cars-testing.html

This company is going to make waves. Their business model is free, ad-supported taxi rides.

10/4/2017 1:04:53 PM