Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic by reader5000 on Saturday October 09, 2010 @03:49PM (#1775676)

If the computer driver is correct 99% of the time and the human driver 98%, then it is a vast improvement. I imagine that ultimately this technology would result in almost 0 human input other than e.g. typing in a destination.

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Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic by andreyf on Saturday October 09, 2010 @05:09PM (#1775889)

typing in a destination

You mean speaking, right? ;)

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Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic by ph0rque on Saturday October 09, 2010 @10:46PM (#1776442)

You mean thinking it, right? ;~)

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Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic by mdwrigh2 on Saturday October 09, 2010 @11:49PM (#1776513)

Didn't Eric Schmidt say they'd know what you want even before you did? So no thinking required!

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Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic by skorgu on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:50PM (#1777373)

I know you were joking but you're also right.

I go food shopping every week at about the same time. I email trip plans between friends and schedule them. I don't drive to work but certainly if I did that's an obviously predictable event.

Between synergy among the various google properties and good pattern-recognition in the google cars (or whatever) system itself I'd be surprised if predicted trips didn't hugely overwhelm explicitly-ordered ones.

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