Google's Driverless Car Hitting Road, Would you "Drive" One?

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Nevada lets Google's driverless car hit the open road, requires it to bring a driver -- Engadget

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Nevada lets Google's driverless car hit the open road, requires it to bring a driver
By Sean Buckley posted May 7th 2012 11:26PM

Nevada lets Google's driverless car hit the open road, requires it to bring a driver

Driving through Las Vegas can be distracting -- bright lights, sun-powered death rays and international Consumer Electronics Shows have a tendency to catch a geek's eye -- good thing, then, that Nevada's deemed Google fit to test its autonomous automobile on public streets. The state's Department of Transportation was tasked with penning a set of safety standards for self-driving cars last June, and is now letting the cars run amok on city streets, with a few restrictions.

Mountain View's three test vehicles, for instance, will need to haul a carpool of at least two passengers before driving down the strip, one person to take the wheel in case of an emergency, and another to monitor a computer screen that details the car's planned route. Test vehicles will also don red license plates and an infinity symbol to mark them as self-driving prototypes. Nevada DMV Director Bruce Breslow says those plates will be green once the vehicles are ready for market, something he hopes to see in three to five years.
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Not sure who here is following the latest tech news but Nevada is allowing google to test their new driverless car systems (cause yes google does everything these days) and i was wondering if they perfect driverless cars would you use one?
 
If EVERYONE has one and the system works, I would love it. But I don't want to be the only one with one and a bunch of crazy people driving around me lol
 
dont we already have a driverless system for passengers called mass transit? :p

but seriously i dont really like this. americans are already getting dumbed down by technology as it is. now this? it just doesnt sound like a good idea to me.
 
I love the general idea. Being able to travel wherever you want, whenever you want without having to drive yourself in your own personal vehicle.
That would be perfect actually.

But I'm not sure what it would take for me to trust a system like this.
I see before me how the computer crashes first, then the car. lol

/SK
 
Well so far they have only just reached the practical work going into the car (so far they have only driven on test courses) and Nevada law say even to use it you still have to have a drivers license, so if the car bugs out you can take control safely.

As someone that doesn't drive i like it but i feel it would have to pass some real traffic area test like in NY or LA before it can really prove itself.
 
Cool idea, but I agree that it would need everyone to do it for it to really work.

I also enjoy driving myself, so guess I wouldn't want to loose that.
 
Three things.

1) I would be willing to take a ride in one if, once it gets in a car accident, it DOES NOT AFFECT MY INSURANCE SINCE I WAS NOT DRIVING.

2) I am concerned that the easier cars are to drive, the less effort people put into learning HOW TO DRIVE them. So even though Nevada might want people to have licenses to operate these vehicles, woe to us all if they break down, especially since you then will have a car operated by a driver who is rusty and may have very few hours experience actually doing the deed.

3) It may save lives, and that is a benefit not to be ignored. But I can only see a realized benefit if everyone can get one and if they NEVER break down. Otherwise you have a very dangerous situation potentially with people who rarely drive being pressed into service en masse.
 
Oh there's going to be an explosion in new laws and insurance companies battling software engineers if these take off. The idea of these cars don't even exist in any law good right now. It's like being back to when computers/the internet first came around and file sharing happened so its going to be a little time before the laws catch up the way they should. cause honestly i think for example what if there is a software exploit that causes accidents (like glitching an enemy into a wall in a video game) then do you blame the driver, the person that caused the exploit, the engie that programed it accidentally or the beta tester that didn't catch it.
 
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