Yeah. No one thinks of security. Remember how responsive jeeps was to the jeep hacks. And then we will send updates via USB drives in the mail. What happens when someone hacks our automated cars and just tells them to keep accelerating. Think of the devastation. You really think any manufacturers are giving much concern to security you are sorely mistaken. They will give us a warm fuzzy that they are, but everywhere I have worked development and new features have trumped security. The NSA will find back doors as usual and will keep them secret to exploit while others will find them and exploit them. Target and home depot can't keep your credit cards safe, what on earth makes you think Volvo or Tesla or Ford will keep you safe
Also what about all the displaced jobs. Mechanics, insurance agents, drivers, after market parts, junk yards, and others. Best argument I hear is they will have opportunities for the new jobs automated cars will provide. But no one can say what those opportunities are.
Just remember your perfect automated car is only as smart as the imperfect programmer who programmed it.
I am cynical about the inability to own a car the loss of freedom, the near constant tracking of my movements by corporations who will sell your soul for money, the targeted advertising and all the other crap. That being said I think the technology itself is awesome.
But if I enjoy riding my motorcycle to work every day, that is my waste of time. I am all for autonomous cars, as long as I am allowed to have my vehicles and drive them when I want.
Also we all know the security on cars is weak, who needs a bomb in a terrorist attack when you can just hack something and order 50,000 cars to crash (that might sound silly, but it hackers find ways). Do you trust auto manufacturers enough to secure it? Yeah we can mail firmware updates on USB sticks, what could go wrong.
Sorry I am pretty sure I am one of those hostile drivers. They should market it as like a designated driver for the drunk. It would sell faster then.
With automated warehouses and autonomous cars and automated fast food and everything else just think of all the jobs lost. I read articles saying the jobs will be offset with new jobs, but no one bothers to explain what. Also when everyone is unemployed how are they going to pay for these automated goods.
When I was in highschool a job was to build character and get you ready to survive in the world. Maybe this is why more kids are living with their parents longer. I don't agree with basic income, because I believe like welfare people will find ways to exploit it. The people who have a drive to work will seem like they are getting less.
I am not opposed to this type of automation. It is just worrisome what impacts it will have that us little guys cannot control..
I don't know a lot about the topic, how well do the current autonomous vehicles handle roads not currently on GPS , I.e private drives and such.
I now understand it can handle the terrain, thanks for the explanation that is pretty neat they could do it thirty years ago, just curious when I tell it to go to a house in the middle of a 20 acre property with multiple private roads, and I use the term road lightly, if it is actively going to search for a path or if it will have to have manual intervention.
I have seen google cars handle well mapped streets, just curious.
I just don't understand, if the vehicle is totally autonomous how is it going to get down my friends mile long driveway that is little more than two gravel tracks with grass in the middle and find a place on his grass to park while missing all the ruts.
I hear all this talk about better infrastructure, however what about the places in the middle of nowhere.
I see more of the Tesla, with self drive being in the future. Kind of like the movie demolition man.
Also what about all the displaced jobs. Mechanics, insurance agents, drivers, after market parts, junk yards, and others. Best argument I hear is they will have opportunities for the new jobs automated cars will provide. But no one can say what those opportunities are.
Just remember your perfect automated car is only as smart as the imperfect programmer who programmed it.
I am cynical about the inability to own a car the loss of freedom, the near constant tracking of my movements by corporations who will sell your soul for money, the targeted advertising and all the other crap. That being said I think the technology itself is awesome.