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What happens when all of the 1000 parking spaces are filled up? Where would the other driverless cars go to? They would drive around in circles until they run out of gas, and then there would be gridlock.
To a spot even further away, just like drivers do now.
1. OK, point taken. We have now established that they suck, but they could improve.
2. Who is going to pay for and operate this central control system?
3. Manual drivers will never be out of the equation. How many times do many of us have to reiterate that we will never stop driving? We have no interest in buying your stupid ridiculously expensive self-driving cars.
1) humans already suck and apparently have been getting worse at driving. Like progress but backwards.
Reproducing no longer requires being the strongest and smartest.
2) thats like asking who maintains the internet. It's a collective of automated cars that communicate with each other. They just need to be on the same protocol.
3) you don't have to stop driving. But you're going to get old and busted one day and you won't have to rely on your offspring to drive you to Walgreens. Eventually you won't have a choice just as you dont have a choice to buy a new car without ABS now.
Will driverless cars EVER be smart enough to be on the Road on their own?! I really can't imagine. Seems there are situations that unavoidably need human intervention.
Considering the number of traffic accidents and deaths each year, a driverless car is our future.
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Will driverless cars EVER be smart enough to be on the Road on their own?! I really can't imagine. Seems there are situations that unavoidably need human intervention.
Will some of the drivers we see everyday EVER be smart enough?
2. Who is going to pay for and operate this central control system?
I would imagine the same people that pay for the stop signs, traffic lights, line markings, bridges and the road themselves. In a world where all all cars are driverless all those stop signs, red lights and every other sign are instantly made obsolete and that money could go to funding a centralized sytem. That would be an inevitable outcome to fully utilize the benefits these cars can make. As I previously said if all cars are driverless it opens a huge window of opportunity, such a sytem would be able to manage traffic on streets and highways that could have traffic flowing in any direction... Just so it's clear such a centralized sytem would not be required, it simply extends the cars autonomous capabilities.
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3. Manual drivers will never be out of the equation. How many times do many of us have to reiterate that we will never stop driving? We have no interest in buying your stupid ridiculously expensive self-driving cars.
Never is a very long time. I support the use of coal , you will hear me say solar and wind will never replace coal but you'll won't hear me say we will never stop using coal. Technology marches on, as I suggested previously the timeline for this might be 50 years. That has nothing to do with perfecting the tech, it's simply logical that such a transition would take that long for practical reasons.
It would a sight to see hundreds maybe even thousands of driverless cars find parking spots at malls on Black Friday or during Christmas holidays. Or even sporting events, concerts, or even Costco on weekends. That would be a sight to see.
I noticed my GPS usually gets lost when I'm in a big box store parking lot, driving in a large apartment or condo complex, stadium parking lot, etc. I use Google Maps. That could be a big problem for driverless cars.
On another note, some people can't use voice recognition to tell the car where to go because it doesn't understand accents very well. Typing in the address is tedious and potentially dangerous while driving, and people often misspell things. Though I speak perfect English with no accent, my GPS still misunderstands me on occasion.
The slightest misunderstanding of your voice or a typo, and the car could take you to Mexico when you were trying to get to Los Angeles. Or some other technical glitch that commonly occurs with GPS.
I noticed my GPS usually gets lost when I'm in a big box store parking lot, driving in a large apartment or condo complex, stadium parking lot, etc. I use Google Maps. That could be a big problem for driverless cars.
On another note, some people can't use voice recognition to tell the car where to go because it doesn't understand accents very well. Typing in the address is tedious and potentially dangerous while driving, and people often misspell things. Though I speak perfect English with no accent, my GPS still misunderstands me on occasion.
The slightest misunderstanding of your voice or a typo, and the car could take you to Mexico when you were trying to get to Los Angeles. Or some other technical glitch that happens with GPS.
A lot of parking lots also do not have markings, especially in more rural areas. It's just big concrete area, or sometimes just dirt.
I noticed my GPS usually gets lost when I'm in a big box store parking lot, driving in a large apartment or condo complex, stadium parking lot, etc. I use Google Maps. That could be a big problem for driverless cars.
On another note, some people can't use voice recognition to tell the car where to go because it doesn't understand accents very well. Typing in the address is tedious and potentially dangerous while driving, and people often misspell things. Though I speak perfect English with no accent, my GPS still misunderstands me on occasion.
The slightest misunderstanding of your voice or a typo, and the car could take you to Mexico when you were trying to get to Los Angeles. Or some other technical glitch that commonly occurs with GPS.
A lot of parking lots also do not have markings, especially in more rural areas. It's just big concrete area, or sometimes just dirt.
Also in urban areas and suburbs, the residential streets usually don't have lane markings.
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Ever use Google maps? It will be like that.
Yes, but when you are driving the car you will tend to notice something is wrong sooner rather than later, and you can correct it. But when people are not driving, as in a driverless car they won't be paying as much attention.
A lot of parking lots also do not have markings, especially in more rural areas. It's just big concrete area, or sometimes just dirt.
A driverless car means you can take a nap on your way from New York to Miami. You might still have to park yourself at some flea market or whatever. Eventually as business owners realize they're missing out on customers because their outdated parking lot can't accommodate modern cars, they'll change to marked parking.
A similar thing happened with pay at the pump gas stations and credit cards in general. Business owners didnt like them, but those who didn't adapt got ran out of business. In the end a business will do what their customers expect.
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EVER be smart enough? 
