Re:Uber CEO Says He’d Buy 500k Self-Driving Cars From Tesla ...
by Diederich on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:02PM
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Removable steering wheel..that's kind of funny:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/googles-latest-self-driving...
We are certainly still in the "Every single one of them still absolutely requires a driver." phase. Given that you've been in the automated transport field for years, and I haven't, I won't make any comments about the many years/decades timeline, except to say that, in general, the pace of technological growth in many areas has surprised me.
Re:Uber CEO Says He’d Buy 500k Self-Driving Cars From Tesla ...
by shalmanese on Friday June 26, 2015 @03:12PM
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This could be solved by hooking the car sensor platform to a remote controlled driver for the times when hands off operation is impossible. Uber could hire their top 5% of drivers to work at at Uber HQ to be drivers on an as-needed basis. and save on 95% of their labor costs.
Re:Uber CEO Says He’d Buy 500k Self-Driving Cars From Tesla ...
by nostrademons on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:31PM
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Google's goals, at least, are for 100% driver-free cars. Not something where you can take your hands off the wheel for 10 minutes, but one where there is no steering wheel at all. I'll let the company speak for how close they are to that, when they choose to.
No, you don't. You see cars which have a hands-free driving mode. Every single one of them still absolutely requires a driver.
I've been closely involved in automated transport for years, and the current hype cycle is getting exhausting. There are several orders of magnitude of difficulty between a car which allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel some of the time (or even most of the time), and a car which does not require a driver. We are many years, and possibly decades, away from the latter.