I don't think it will. Most of the people I work with travel for an hour per work day. Most of the managers I've worked with are doing over two. If they could watch an episode of Quincy on the way to work and spend an hour on Facebook on the way home, while paying less insurance, I think that's gonna catch on.Liveinadive wrote:It will be a long, long time before people stop driving their own cars by any meaningful amount. Which is entirely irrelevant to your question.
IanHamlett wrote:I don't think it will. Most of the people I work with travel for an hour per work day. Most of the managers I've worked with are doing over two. If they could watch an episode of Quincy on the way to work and spend an hour on Facebook on the way home, while paying less insurance, I think that's gonna catch on.Liveinadive wrote:It will be a long, long time before people stop driving their own cars by any meaningful amount. Which is entirely irrelevant to your question.
For the last time, you are not Raiden! Now take that silly wig off and eat your dinner.Tempy wrote:i will parry them with my sword and they will die
LesterUnlimited wrote:I think that's one of the problems which need to be addressed, the insurance. If there is an accident who is responsible? The car or the driver/passenger?IanHamlett wrote:I don't think it will. Most of the people I work with travel for an hour per work day. Most of the managers I've worked with are doing over two. If they could watch an episode of Quincy on the way to work and spend an hour on Facebook on the way home, while paying less insurance, I think that's gonna catch on.Liveinadive wrote:It will be a long, long time before people stop driving their own cars by any meaningful amount. Which is entirely irrelevant to your question.
It will depend how the law sees it. I would be very suprised if they are happy to have 1 ton metal boxes moving up and down the country with no human fail safe.Hulka T wrote:Cruise control is totally different to driverless cars though. You would never put a car on cruise control and have a nap. Unless you were American.
Liveinadive wrote:It will depend how the law sees it. I would be very suprised if they are happy to have 1 ton metal boxes moving up and down the country with no human fail safe.Hulka T wrote:Cruise control is totally different to driverless cars though. You would never put a car on cruise control and have a nap. Unless you were American.
Right now and until these systems are proven on a mass level, I think there will be an expectation for someone to be in control even if not controlling the car.
The alternate is what is being trailed in Milton Keynes next year, however that system is far from cars as we know them. They are low speed, small and limited to certain routes and areas.Pretty much personal trams really.
LesterUnlimited wrote:I was listening to a podcast where they said that the robot cars are safer when there's no human interaction at all. When you have a hybrid human/robot system you have a compromised system with the worst of human error and the least optimal driving scripts. They hypothesised that cars would not have any controls like a steering wheel and just have a touch screen for navigation.Liveinadive wrote:It will depend how the law sees it. I would be very suprised if they are happy to have 1 ton metal boxes moving up and down the country with no human fail safe. Right now and until these systems are proven on a mass level, I think there will be an expectation for someone to be in control even if not controlling the car. The alternate is what is being trailed in Milton Keynes next year, however that system is far from cars as we know them. They are low speed, small and limited to certain routes and areas.Pretty much personal trams really.Hulka T wrote:Cruise control is totally different to driverless cars though. You would never put a car on cruise control and have a nap. Unless you were American.
IanHamlett wrote:Driverless cars will be allowed on British roads in Jan 2015. Taxi and HGV drivers will be replaced. Car ownership will decline meaning less jobs in manufacture, distribution, sales and maintenance. Fewer parking spaces and petrol stations will be needed. How is our economy going to work when robots are doing all the jobs?
LesterUnlimited wrote:Depends how many humans decide Fuck this I know better and take the controls.
Hulka T wrote:Thats right now though, in 10 or 20 years will that be happening? Hard to say. Theres no way I would be interested in having partial control (and blamability) of a car, it would have to be all or nothing. Plus obligatory ejector seat.
How easy would farming be to robotise? With that in place all we need is free housing and our economy would surely become a leisure society?
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