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I have the Subaru Eyesight stereo camera adaptive cruise control and braking system in my Outback. It also has a lane-crossing warning. After a year with it, even this native Massholian uses his freakin' blinkers before changing lanes on the highway. It proves conclusively that I drive just as poorly as everyone else any time I put my nose in my smartphone.
The adaptive cruise control is a bit pessimistic when someone ahead of you is making a right turn into a business or if oncoming traffic is making a left turn in front of you into a business. My driving style is now to not touch the pedals and click the adaptive cruise control up and down with the 1 mph and 5 mph controls on the steering wheel. The only time I touch the gas pedal in normal driving is to override the pessimistic braking.
I'm just about to turn 58. I'm hopeful that self-driving technology will keep me out of assisted living 20-ish years from now.
I'm also optimistic that autonomous cars will solve the city commuter traffic jam problem. If you don't have clueless humans at the controls and all the cars are networked together, you can run cars at 60 mph bumper-to-bumper and not have some moron trigger the stop & go mess. Most lanes will be for autonomous cars and there will be a human-driven car lane that barely moves.
My wife's Jeep has "ESP"...I've learned to turn it off because it has a different idea of how to drive than I do.
I learned to drive in a 1950-something Dodge with a three-on-the-tree and no power nothing. I don't need no stinkin' computer trying to drive 'for' me.
Frankly I can't wait to have the self driving cars, personally. Even if they putter along under the speed limit.. if I can remove my focus from the road onto my mobile device, I consider it freed up time, to a degree.
I wish the technology had trickled down faster. As I sit looking for a slightly used 2013-2015 model car, none of them have adaptive cruise except at the very highest, "touring" level builds.
If all this stuff raises the inflation adjusted price $5-10K it won't be worth it though.. they have to find a way to bring the costs down.
i would say 99% of people drive with a purpose, IE, going to some place. if navigation and self driving becomes standard then traffic should cease to exists. bring the future faster
Frankly I can't wait to have the self driving cars, personally. Even if they putter along under the speed limit.. if I can remove my focus from the road onto my mobile device, I consider it freed up time, to a degree.
I wish the technology had trickled down faster. As I sit looking for a slightly used 2013-2015 model car, none of them have adaptive cruise except at the very highest, "touring" level builds.
If all this stuff raises the inflation adjusted price $5-10K it won't be worth it though.. they have to find a way to bring the costs down.
They already are. Even lower status brands like Hyundai are implementing the new tech. In the used market we are just a generation away.
I've been saying it, self driving cars will be mandated in the future. If not mandated, then car insurance will be so expensive for cars without self driving abilities that only the wealthiest will be able to afford to drive them.
Not only that, but you'll be banned from doing almost any maintenance beyond maybe changing the oil on them yourself. Otherwise, too much risk something goes wrong. And I'm not sure what's going to happen to the independent mechanic. Tesla already has their service manuals locked down so tightly and can basically shut your car down remotely that only the Tesla service center can work on your car. Not sure how that stands up to Magnussen Moss, but that's the situation.
My boss has a car that auto brakes and the other day he drove me. The car in front turned into an offramp and braked suddenly and then my bosses car braked. They still have some kinks to work out.
Not only that, but you'll be banned from doing almost any maintenance beyond maybe changing the oil on them yourself. Otherwise, too much risk something goes wrong. And I'm not sure what's going to happen to the independent mechanic. Tesla already has their service manuals locked down so tightly and can basically shut your car down remotely that only the Tesla service center can work on your car. Not sure how that stands up to Magnussen Moss, but that's the situation.
If cars become truly self driving ownership will become an outdated method of transit. Why own when you can have a self driving car arrive when you need it?
Is this in the immediate future? No.
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