"And when it does appear, the average family sedan will no longer be an engine and a drive train. It will be a mobile datacenter, processing terabytes of data every time you need to send the car to get some milk at the corner store"
It seems that a car can be converted to a multipurpose utility. Good, when car is in idle situation, its components can do multiple other functions, which can be of very much beneficial. If it has other facilities like generating power and storing it for next run, then energy conservation can also maintain.
"Have an important package for a customer but don't have the time to drive it over yourself? No worries, send the autonomous car". Autonomous car ; my dream when I was a little child .I think we have now all the knowledge and the technology to bring the "autonomous car" from the dream zone to the reality. It is amazing when your dreams became real.
This will definitely become a reality in the next five years. But all this needs a great infrastructure and rightly designated parking ares which can be easily understand by the automatic cars.
A driverless car sounds perfect! I'll say yes please. I note the advantages are numerous - fantastic. I'm just wondering, what are the disadvantages? this is robotic - right? So what happens when something goes wrong?
A driverless road transportation will be a leap forward. Gone would be the days of stressful hours of driving a car, got struck in the traffic and nothing more to do than just wait behind the wheel.
I think that our technology is matured enough to start pilot programs in some places and learn/improve the system. I wonder what is keeping the auto companies waiting except maybe cost and clear government guidelines.
Safety and accident prevention may not be the only factors. One use case for such cars could be to transport the physically challenged. Driving around for such individuals is extremely difficult if not impossible. These cars will allow them to commute without putting a burden on their families.
I agree with the fact that smart cars so to say will make more sense in the area of school buses and commercial transport vechiles. It can also go a long way to reduce accident and to a large extent, prevent it.
It's a logical next step to take in automotive technology, and a huge next step in terms of engineering challenges. Sure we can get a few robots to share the road without colliding, using control systems. Multiply that by a million and I wonder if you'd get the throughput we have today on some US freeways.
Things like queuing theory, chaos theory and many-body dynamics come into play with interacting systems on that scale. I would be surprised to see a return to rail in some form to deal with the stability problems.
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