[BBC] Driverless car UK test cities named

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Driverless car UK test cities named

Bristol, London, Coventry and Milton Keynes are selected as the hosts of driverless car tests set to begin in 2015.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-303...hannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

[Bacon_Puffs]

This. Is. Awesome.

The number of lives that will be saved if it becomes widespread dwarfs pretty much any other reasonable safety measures.

[Athos]

Not at all thrilled about this. Will the computer's decision be as good as a person's reflex?
Also, this will only be effective if all cars will be driverless. And that is just not the way things should be. :|

Mind-blowing tech, definitely. But to share driving with a computer...Nah!

[Bacon_Puffs]

Not at all thrilled about this. Will the computer's decision be as good as a person's reflex?
Also, this will only be effective if all cars will be driverless. And that is just not the way things should be. :|

Mind-blowing tech, definitely. But to share driving with a computer...Nah!

I like the idea... A lot. Drunk humans...angry humans... Retarded humans are all over the place. A computer is infinitely faster than a human and not subject to emotions or being inebriated.

If controlling all, accidents would be close to, if not nil.

If an accident were to happen. They could immediately divert/slow/stop any nearby traffic heading in the direction of the accident and instantly have the appropriate team/ambulance on the way based on severity of impact.

Say goodbye to driving insurance, lazy donut traffic cops and the prisons that house drunks as well.

This is a huge huge step up as far as advancing safety. Of course computers controlling all traffic may never come to pass. People like driving too much.

[twistyplain]

This. Is. Awesome.

The number of lives that will be saved if it becomes widespread dwarfs pretty much any other reasonable safety measures.

Someone is going to hack the sh*t out of the control systems of these cars if they become widespread. We have managed to hack virtually anything controlled by computers and I doubt that autonomous cars will present much of a challenge.

The worst thing is that if such a car causes an accident, you (the passenger) cannot be sued because technically you were not driving it.

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Not at all thrilled about this. Will the computer's decision be as good as a person's reflex?
Also, this will only be effective if all cars will be driverless. And that is just not the way things should be. :|

Mind-blowing tech, definitely. But to share driving with a computer...Nah!

Exactly! A computer can do a lot more computations than a human but it is incapable of judgment.

The idea of having only autonomous vehicles is utter nonsense. Even if computers are theoretically safer than humans, how many years until this technology is accepted by the masses? I know numerous people that wouldn't get into a car that has no human driver.