by "Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
Published 04/14/2017 at 18:15
by "Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
Published 04/14/2017 at 18:15
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I drove from my place to my parents today and I would not miss actually driving it if I had the option. It’s 150 miles of boring motorway with regular speed cameras and variable speed limits for 60 miles of it. It’s just tedious and irritating. Letting the car take over would be a god send to be honest.
I still love driving and would never willingly give it up, however for some journeys autonomy would be nice. Provided they don’t try to take away the right to drive yourself (a valid concern) I welcome the tech. Plus if it keeps some of the dickheads who can’t drive properly from piloting a car, that would be a bonus too.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
04/14/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 0
I don’t think they’ll ever mandate autonomous cars. It would jack up prices, new and used, way too much. There’s almost no way someone on minimum wage could afford to maintain any kind of an autonomous vehicle.
"kgman" (kgman)
04/14/2017 at 20:11, STARS: 1
I agree, I love driving but there are parts of my commute that I would gladly give to a computer
"facw" (facw)
04/14/2017 at 22:04, STARS: 1
That assumes prices will always be high. The actual sensors won’t be that expensive when mass produced. The R&D costs are high, but once you’ve developed a system, it shouldn’t cost a ton to push it out to new models.
Additionally, some of the additional cost will likely be offset by cheaper insurance premiums. Self-driving cars have potential to be vastly safer than human driven ones.
All that said, while I don’t see it being mandated on normal surface streets for a very long time, I think we could get to banning manually operated cars from highways much more quickly. You see less benefit there, but you still get a lot of advantages, and people with “classic” cars can still get from point a to point b on other roads.
"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
04/15/2017 at 03:39, STARS: 0
I’m thinking decades, not the near future. Eventually the tech will be cheap and common.