Driverless cars
Discussion
Tarmac Tickler said:
Exactly, handy if you have had a beer or two, or can you be done for being in charge of a driverless car 
currently as the law stands you are still responsible for the vehicle , even if the robot is driving so if you've had few you can't jump in a doze off while Mr robot trundles you home
350Matt said:
Tarmac Tickler said:
Exactly, handy if you have had a beer or two, or can you be done for being in charge of a driverless car
currently as the law stands you are still responsible for the vehicle , even if the robot is driving so if you've had few you can't jump in a doze off while Mr robot trundles you home
Working for a company that might have to confront this in the future (Not naming where)...
There's a lot of research going on, obviously, and it might not be that much of a surprise to read that it's fantastically difficult to do such a thing. OEMs are generally breaking it down in to categories as follows:
Level 0 (Or 1, depending where you are or which number you want to start with) - People drive and do everything.
Level 1 - A function is autonomous. Like Auto Braking or Cruise Control.
Level 2 - Things combine. So for example, cruise and active lane assist. This is where Tesla are now.
Level 3 - The organic sack behind the wheel is still there, but doesn't need to pay attention all of the time and the car could be trusted to for example, drive around Birmingham whilst the driver has a nap. Waking the organism up would be required say, if the car got to West Bromwich, where it, like me, wouldn't quite know what to do and could be prone to pretending that it is somewhere better. This is what Uber/Google are testing and working on at the moment in and around various bits of Silicone Valley.
Level 4 - The car is a means of conveying a species intent on inventing its own obsolescence to the next place that it needs to go to discover further inadequacies. Squishy object gets in at one place, gets out anywhere else and does nothing at all. Tesla say 2018 for this... Looks doubtful.
Level 5 - No option to control the 'car' at all. There is 100% trust that its navigational references are unable to be hacked by terrorists looking to send thousands of cars crashing into one another at lethal velocities.
I for one would quite happily hand my morning commute over to a computer. I hate it. It takes too long, I'd rather be asleep and because it's a daily duty, I'm not in a car I like very much anyway. Or at least, not in the most exciting of my cars.
This kind of autonomy is, in my view, the saviour of cars like my Cerb because at that point, when I'll be doing the driving, I'll most probably be doing so in a car that I think is amazing. I'll be fully engaged; the experience not dulled by the monotony of doing it every day. I'll be more alert, enjoy it and hopefully, be safer. It'll be a great recreational activity and more of an occasion than it already is when taking a car of this type for a run.
Also, I'd happily see most other people be nothing but passengers so that I would no longer be a passenger to their frequent stupidity.
There's a lot of research going on, obviously, and it might not be that much of a surprise to read that it's fantastically difficult to do such a thing. OEMs are generally breaking it down in to categories as follows:
Level 0 (Or 1, depending where you are or which number you want to start with) - People drive and do everything.
Level 1 - A function is autonomous. Like Auto Braking or Cruise Control.
Level 2 - Things combine. So for example, cruise and active lane assist. This is where Tesla are now.
Level 3 - The organic sack behind the wheel is still there, but doesn't need to pay attention all of the time and the car could be trusted to for example, drive around Birmingham whilst the driver has a nap. Waking the organism up would be required say, if the car got to West Bromwich, where it, like me, wouldn't quite know what to do and could be prone to pretending that it is somewhere better. This is what Uber/Google are testing and working on at the moment in and around various bits of Silicone Valley.
Level 4 - The car is a means of conveying a species intent on inventing its own obsolescence to the next place that it needs to go to discover further inadequacies. Squishy object gets in at one place, gets out anywhere else and does nothing at all. Tesla say 2018 for this... Looks doubtful.
Level 5 - No option to control the 'car' at all. There is 100% trust that its navigational references are unable to be hacked by terrorists looking to send thousands of cars crashing into one another at lethal velocities.
I for one would quite happily hand my morning commute over to a computer. I hate it. It takes too long, I'd rather be asleep and because it's a daily duty, I'm not in a car I like very much anyway. Or at least, not in the most exciting of my cars.
This kind of autonomy is, in my view, the saviour of cars like my Cerb because at that point, when I'll be doing the driving, I'll most probably be doing so in a car that I think is amazing. I'll be fully engaged; the experience not dulled by the monotony of doing it every day. I'll be more alert, enjoy it and hopefully, be safer. It'll be a great recreational activity and more of an occasion than it already is when taking a car of this type for a run.
Also, I'd happily see most other people be nothing but passengers so that I would no longer be a passenger to their frequent stupidity.
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