Hands free driving

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Wow - I’m liking this already! Bring it on I say!

Electric curtains as standard

 

[daleyd]

Electric curtains as standard

 

[Cobbler]

Not with your hands down your trousers and porn on the display.


I know an artic driver caught doing just that in a artic got a few points on his licence

Would that be a stain on his license?

 

[500e]

No worse them without it, mostly they will leave it on.

Christ a computer is far quicker than a human

Not in my new TV

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Would that be a stain on his license?

What do you have to do to lose your licence in this country.
That's the real problem with road safety. People treat driving as a right not a privilege because there's no real fear of losing it

It's my living I can't lose my licence. Ok you can have some more points

I've met people with 40 plus points on there licence

 

[outofthefire]

The day they invent an operating system and computer that is guaranteed not to crash, with no possible way of anyone uploading a virus, i'd maybe consider it.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

With regards to computers being faster than our brains
How easy would it be to program a robotic arm and camera to catch a ball thrown randomly

Something most of us do without a seconds thought yet a huge amount of calculations take place in order to do so

 

[keithski122]

Saw something the other day that said it takes more concentration to drive a car with all these self driving functions that have the possibility not to work than it does to drive a normal car.
And if audi stick their self driving computors in a footwell thats likely to flood the outcome may be worse than their usual central locking computers flooding problem.

 

[pedrobedro]

If every vehicle was being tracked and controlled it would probably be safer. But mixing software with humans is a recipe for disaster
Too unpredictable.

I'm in for reprogramming next week, crashed twice this week already.

 

[jerrytug]

With regards to computers being faster than our brains
How easy would it be to program a robotic arm and camera to catch a ball thrown randomly

Something most of us do without a seconds thought yet a huge amount of calculations take place in order to do so

Computers can't be made which can command a robot to do most human sports and physical activities..unless you count chess as a 'sport'..

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Computers can't be made which can command a robot to do most human sports and physical activities..unless you count chess as a 'sport'..

or driving it would seem.
and yes, youve made my point perfectly cheers

The problem with accidents is there unpredictable. cant program for every possible outcome and mistakes will happen

 

[daleyd]

Computers can't be made which can command a robot to do most human sports and physical activities..unless you count chess as a 'sport'..

Equally there are some things which humans could not do without the aid of computers, eg flying the euro fighter - applying human achievements to things computers can/can’t do, while not irrelevant, shouldn’t be the question - it should be a simple question of can it do the task of driving well enough to allow us to use it. If yes, then fine, if no then don’t.

 

[pedrobedro]

It reminds me of when we hired a self drive van for moving house, I ended up driving it as it never drove itself anywhere. A friend of mine had an accident and when asked if he was driving at the time he told the police it was automatic but he had to be in there.

 

[pedrobedro]

Would that be a stain on his license?

Not a stain, more of a blot

 

[Dev]

The day they invent an operating system and computer that is guaranteed not to crash, with no possible way of anyone uploading a virus, i'd maybe consider it.

If you applied that to humans they shouldn't be allowed on the roads either .

 

[More Amps]

I can se it being disastrous until most vehicles are fitted with all the tech... lane guidance adaptive cruise control etc

The trouble is that the systems will never be rolled out overnight, and for maybe the first five years, maybe ten, there will be a small number of cars (ok their number will increase over time) with the system fitted but during those years you would have a recipe for disaster with people assuming that the car in front does/does not have the system fitted.

What happens when you have a blowout in the fast lane...the computer thinks, "hmm...speed is fine....no cars in front....oh car has had a blowout....better bring the car to a rapid stop" IN THE FAST LANE! No thankyou!!!

 

[TechnicAl]

The trouble is that the systems will never be rolled out overnight, and for maybe the first five years, maybe ten, there will be a small number of cars (ok their number will increase over time) with the system fitted but during those years you would have a recipe for disaster with people assuming that the car in front does/does not have the system fitted.

What happens when you have a blowout in the fast lane...the computer thinks, "hmm...speed is fine....no cars in front....oh car has had a blowout....better bring the car to a rapid stop" IN THE FAST LANE! No thankyou!!!

I reckon they might have thought of that one

The difficult one is when the wife says "how do I know where we are going"

When I got my first Automatic the wifes mate asked me "how does it know where you want to go"

 

[8ob]

What happens when you have a blowout in the fast lane...the computer thinks, "hmm...speed is fine....no cars in front....oh car has had a blowout....better bring the car to a rapid stop" IN THE FAST LANE! No thankyou!!!

Same sort of thing if a motorway comes to grinding halt in the fog, I would sooner scoot up a motorway bank or throw it down the hard shoulder than sit there waiting for the inevitable.

Bob

 

[daleyd]

Same sort of thing if a motorway comes to grinding halt in the fog, I would sooner scoot up a motorway bank or throw it down the hard shoulder than sit there waiting for the inevitable.

Bob

Are they proposing to take the steering wheel and pedals away as well - from what I understand all of the above will still be possible, if you want to.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Are they proposing to take the steering wheel and pedals away as well - from what I understand all of the above will still be possible, if you want to.

People have enough issues concentrating on the road ahead of them now when there supposed to be driving.
First thing they will know about it is when the computer slams the brakes on...