Many companies from General Motors to Google are investing in the technologies of self-operated cars and they are speeding towards road-going reality.
Major question for this technology is how these vehicles will work and interact with traditional cars, and how broad the adoption will be, remain wide open.
In the recent times from Nissan, they promised to put an autonomous vehicle in consumers’ hands by 2020. Luxury sedans from Mercedes-Benz, Lincoln, Volvo and Infiniti already contain some form of corrective-steering technology, with more brands joining virtually every few weeks.
There are some suspects that owners of self-driving cars would be at a disadvantage as more and more drivers learned they could cut ahead without consequences. The end result? Owners of self-driving cars might kick into manual mode and drive defensively, defeating one of the core tenets of autonomous-car advocacy: that these vehicles are safer.
Self-driving cars will be adept at avoiding certain types of accidents, argued Kevin Mercuri, such as being able to stop abruptly when the leading car stops short. But taking smart evasive action, he contends, would be nigh on impossible for a self-driving car.
“An onboard computer doesn’t detect stupidity; it will only detect the pedestrian four steps later when they enter the traffic flow.” Mercuri has avoided contact with absentminded pedestrians and others by scanning the road ahead and anticipating trouble spots before they manifested.
Jason Lancaster, editor of the consumer-information portal Accurateautoadvice.com, had the opposite fear: that driverless cars will never make it out of testing and into circulation. “The US legal system and US media will prevent autonomous cars from being anything more than a pipe dream,” he wrote.
In his post, he recalled the problems Toyota encountered after the media reported an electronic throttle problem that allegedly caused runaway vehicles. “What's worse is that even though claims of an electronic throttle problem were found to be bogus, Toyota still ended up paying a massive $1.3bn class-action settlement.” He worried that the same level of scrutiny would come with any incident, or even a perceived incident, involving an autonomous car.
“Unless there are some legal protections for automakers, they're going to handicap the autonomous systems just enough so that the driver must be paying attention 100% of the time,” he wrote.
People may loose the joy of driving and races may become virtual.
Many may become job less...
Many predictive analysis is going on.
All dependent on the network and computation power of processor build into the car.
Its all about the matter of sensors reading all the way from the starting of engine till shut down.
Continuous monitoring is required and one car may communicate to the other..
Matter of smartness and the speedy.
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