Google lobby to make driver-less cars legal
The first proposed amendment is to an electric-vehicle bill providing for the licensing and testing of autonomous vehicles. The second is for an exemption that would permit texting in a car. Google hired Las Vegas-based lobbysit David Goldwater to promote its proposed legislation.
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Posted 13 May 2011 - 12:18 AM

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Posted 13 May 2011 - 05:18 AM

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Posted 13 May 2011 - 08:37 AM

~Jon
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Posted 13 May 2011 - 10:15 AM

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Posted 13 May 2011 - 03:13 PM

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
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Posted 16 May 2011 - 10:13 AM

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone."
#7
Posted 30 November 2011 - 08:28 PM

Schools of fish, flocks of birds -- even bicyclists in the Tour de France -- all use the principles of swarm behavior and drafting to conserve energy while moving in the same direction.
Australian industrial designer, Charles Rattray, believes these concepts are the future of transportation. That's why he's designed Autonomo, a biomimicry inspired autonomous vehicle he hopes will revolutionize the auto industry by the year 2030.
http://news.discover...les-111128.html
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Posted 18 September 2012 - 07:17 PM

Cliff Notes:
(1) 75% of cars on the road by 2040 will be autonomous.
(2) GM is coming out with Semi-Autonomous cars in 2015
(3) No traffic lights nor any traffic signs by 2040
(4) No driving licenses needed by 2040 (serious)
(5) V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle communication) being worked on in Ann Arbor, MI
(6) V2I (Vehicle to Infrastructure communication) being worked on
(7) Some people won't be happy with the change (I certainly will though)
Not only is it exciting that the first generation of this technology will be ready within a few years, but I have a feeling
that this will cut down drastically on the number of automobile accidents and drunk driving incidents that happen on
a daily basis. Only good things could come from this. There are probably cons, but I think the pros far outweigh them.
Google's autonomous cars are also mentioned in the article, but it talks more so about what other companies are doing.
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Posted 19 September 2012 - 12:21 AM

Edited by H3llion, 19 September 2012 - 12:22 AM.
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Posted 19 September 2012 - 12:31 AM

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 01:29 AM

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 03:10 AM


"Since we first emerged, a few million years ago in East Africa, we have meandered our way around the planet. There are now people on every continent and the remotest islands, from pole to pole, from Mount Everest to the Dead Sea, on the ocean bottoms and even, occasionally, in residence 200 miles up - humans, like the gods of old, living in the sky."
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Posted 19 September 2012 - 04:06 AM

Hey. Stop reading. The post is over.
#14
Posted 19 September 2012 - 04:25 PM

I can think of the quickest con - the auto insurance industry!
They'll take a beating from this big time when it starts becoming ubiquitous. Just the amount of accidents that would be reduced would be staggering. How they'll react, costs, etc. will all come in due time as this starts moving into the real world via more legislation and more auto companies jumping on board. If an accident does occur as well...who's really at fault? May sound like a simple question but insurance companies are always battling. Who knows what crazy definitions they'll create.
That's an interesting question, since there could be a number of people or organizations that could be argued as responsible. If the car is at all semi-autonomous, then you could blame the driver. However, if it was clearly a technology error, that really complicates things. It starts a whole search for which component of the guidance and control system failed. Since the car would likely be made up of components from a number of different companies. I can just picture the arguments over who's component was actually responsible. It reminds me of what happened between BP, Transocean, Halliburton, and Cameron after the Deep Water Horizon spill.
It would be a lot more difficult than today, where it's at least usually clear which human is responsible.
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Posted 19 September 2012 - 05:38 PM

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone."
#16
Posted 19 September 2012 - 05:46 PM

One day manual mode will not be covered by any insurance, forcing people to go automatic, and finally death toll of car accidents will drop to nearly 0.
But there is still the issue for having the right to manually drive a car... I doubt this will be solved without a hard fight.
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Posted 19 September 2012 - 06:49 PM

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone."
#18
Posted 20 September 2012 - 12:17 AM

"Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content." -Conan the Cimmerian
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Posted 20 September 2012 - 12:24 AM

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Posted 23 September 2012 - 04:17 PM

What do the self-drive cars do in the case of a puncture or a breakdown?
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