yup self driving cars. Coming from GM in 2008!

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=107011

 

That's neat.

 

So...

Who do you trust?
Your average interstate driver....

or

General Motors cars cruising themselves down the highway?

 

I can just see Joe Blow American thinking, WFT . And then punching the radio!

 

Ill take the microprocessor for $500 Alex...

Lets just hope this thing has gigantic alarm bells for when it kicks offline.

 

Put me down for the computer.

Plus, if it runs on Windows, it'll crash without me.

 

skynet will soon take over.....

 

I wrote my thesis on AI in automobiles like this. I had video of a truck, city bus, and bonneville that they all had wired to drive on its own in a number of conditions. There were a bunch of other projects like "racoon" too that could triangulate taillights of a car up ahead at night to determine bends in the road, etc

I believe Carnegie Mellon has alot going on, although Id have to pull out my old paper to be more specific, its been a few years. I did find this though:
http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/030314/030314_gmgrant.html

 

Thats easy, if its squishy and made up of about 75% water with a cell phone strapped to its head. I dont trust it.

 

lol, a Hummer with no driver, riding around looking for Sarah Conner

 

when a car drives itself, that is the day driving is no longer any fun. Boring crap and IMHO prone to failure.

 

I like the idea of the OPTION to put your car on to an autopilot control, but at what point does the car sence you are doing "bad things" and want to take over and disable your ability to drive the car?
I dont think that a computer can process the information of every single possible accident.

 

so not only will be have to be carefull of crazy drunks, slow senior citizens, and aggresive young punks, but now crazy couputer drivers.


Excellent

 

Well for most of the driving public, which are too busy to be actually be bothered with driving, these cars will be a godsend.

and on a more positive note, sexually induced genitalia amputations should go down.

 

oh, boy. I hope the didn't outsource the coding to India....