Autonomous Vehicles

[Hoofhearted]

(04-18-2018, 04:38 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: I believe that you either have to have roads that are 100% autonomous vehicles or none. And it will take a long time for the general population to give up their vehicles.

I would take autonomous cars in a heartbeat. The technology needs to be perfected, but I have little reason to doubt that autonomous cars will be safer in the long run. 

Maybe it's the fact I have an hour plus commute to work (I must sound like a whiney New Englander to some of our board members in larger states) but I would love being able to just hop in my car, press a button, go to sleep, and wake up at work. Or do just about anything other than driving during that hour.

I don’t think there’s any way at all they’re able to make roads just for autonomous vehicles. It would take an absolute unfathomable amount of work to do that. I’m guessing they focus on making this technology more advanced vs all that hard labor for making new roads.

I love the fact these vehicles are AI. So they talk with all the other cars about potholes, traffic, other humans, etc. I’m starting to try and wrap my head around the repercussions of this... no more mechanics, taxi drivers, semi truck... basically the entire transportation industry will be turned upside down