Audi Gains Permit For Driverless Cars In Nevada - Following Google's Lead

[webby]

Following in the footsteps of Google's self driving car, Audi has been granted approval for self driving cars in Nevada.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxZSK9KMOW8


For the past few years, the brand with the four rings has been actively developing autonomous driving technology, with one of the early highlights of the program being the participation in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb course in Colorado with the Autonomous Audi TTS Pikes Peak research car.

Developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University, the driver-less TTS was able to complete the 156-turn, 12.42-mile (20 kilometers) Pikes Peak circuit in 27 minutes.
Audi said it will provide more information on its plans for piloted driving and piloted parking technologies during this week's 2013 Consumer Electronics Show that runs from January 8 to 11.

 

[Monk]

They've got a ways to go........... What happens when a wide load truck, or just one of many head-on centre line invaders come towards it? Does it have the smarts to move as close to the shoulder as possible? Or if something like a curb-side mail box is leaning into the road area? Hummm ?

I do like some of the ppl's comments, Airport return home & come back at a set day/time. Driving drunks home........ 'course this is only good for rich drunks.

 

[Dar-Dar]

20 years from now, people will forget or will never know how to drive automobiles.

 

[Monk]

20 years from now, people will forget or will never know how to drive automobiles.

I think a lot have already started that trend......

 

[Dragos]

20 years from now, people will forget or will never know how to drive automobiles.

Sadly yes. I wanted to say although I love the techie stuff from this as an innovation is very vicious. People will forget how to drive, bugs will exist and human controlled driving will be rare or impossible. Imagine trying to drive on a road of computer controlled cars, and of course next step is to network and coordinate them through traffic then you will not be able to keep up with the system. Manual trans will also be gone on a regular car, computer cannot change gears with a stick... Driving will be a luxury for the rich since making a human drivable car will be expensive due to the small market.

We're still far from that point though. And by then we'll very likely run out of oil anyways, or have so little that it will not be used for fuel, so no more cars as we know them today

 

[Dar-Dar]

Last year, I worked on a project with autonomous boats. It's a recipe for disaster. Lol. But I can see most ways of transportation to be like this. Aviation is a different story.

 

[Dar-Dar]

I think a lot have already started that trend......

So true.

 

[Dar-Dar]

Sadly yes. I wanted to say although I love the techie stuff from this as an innovation is very vicious. People will forget how to drive, bugs will exist and human controlled driving will be rare or impossible. Imagine trying to drive on a road of computer controlled cars, and of course next step is to network and coordinate them through traffic then you will not be able to keep up with the system. Manual trans will also be gone on a regular car, computer cannot change gears with a stick... Driving will be a luxury for the rich since making a human drivable car will be expensive due to the small market.

We're still far from that point though. And by then we'll very likely run out of oil anyways, or have so little that it will not be used for fuel, so no more cars as we know them today

And don't forget. People will start losing jobs while the population rate keeps getting higher. We don't have a need for this technology yet.

 

[Dragos]

And don't forget. People will start losing jobs while the population rate keeps getting higher. We don't have a need for this technology yet.

Good point! Driving just as manual labor will be a 3rd world country business and I do not mean that offensively. For sure not all countries will afford to invest in car networks. Not to mention what you do when you're off the car control grid? In china all the massive factories are not full of robots or high tech assembly lines, they're full of people assembling everything by hand. Technology is great but we tend to rely to much on it for some things and for some too little.

 

[Dar-Dar]

Yeah. And there are thousands of cabs being driven around NYC alone. And private drivers on top of that.

 

[Monk]

In china all the massive factories are not full of robots or high tech assembly lines, they're full of people assembling everything by hand.

Keeps the "kids" off the street........

 

[Dar-Dar]

Lol.

 

[Dragos]

Keeps the "kids" off the street........

Lol!

In a twisted way though what they do is intentional, not to say good, but their goal is to create jobs, even if they're bad jobs and others of their citizens get filthy rich from running the sweatshops... Good example of too far off the center government policies, let create jobs for all, minor detail they're all sweatshop jobs... Happens in both far left or far right countries.

 

[webby]

check out this thread & the videos throughout if you want to see some of the how-it-works stuff (google car)
http://9thcivic.com/forum/threads/how-googles-self-driving-car-works.2851/

 

[XdemonicfleasX]

Driverless cars? That's a huge step in making the world a safer place and putting fire, police and ems out of a job.

 

[webby]

Cars operated by humans aren't going to disappear overnight. Tell all of the classic car owners/collectors they can't drive their cars anymore.