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GM says almost-driverless cars coming by 2020

My questions about driver-less cars are:

1. Will the car avoid objects in the road?
2. Will the car detect hydroplaning and compensate?
3. Will the car be able to maneuver in snow, slush?
4. What happens when a tire blows?
5. What happens when an EMP is set off?
6. What happens when someone else runs into you and turns the car sideways?
 
"silverblueBP" said:
My questions about driver-less cars are:
1. a. What happens when the motor blows up. (Que the video) :))
1. b. Will the car avoid objects in the road?
2. Will the car detect hydroplaning and compensate?
3. Will the car be able to maneuver in snow, slush?
4. What happens when a tire blows?
5. What happens when an EMP is set off?
6. What happens when someone else runs into you and turns the car sideways?
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"silverblueBP" said:
My questions about driver-less cars are:

1. Will the car avoid objects in the road? If they are large enough to detect which if they serve as hazard they likely are...yes
2. Will the car detect hydroplaning and compensate?Most new cars already have traction /stability controls which does this
3. Will the car be able to maneuver in snow, slush?same as answer above.
4. What happens when a tire blows?same as happens now. Drivers are still holding the wheel, right? Add in stability control it's likely better than before
5. What happens when an EMP is set off? if it comes to that we all have bigger problems anyway don't we?
6. What happens when someone else runs into you and turns the car sideways? again, drivers are still holding the wheel and you have advanced stability controls, etc.
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all that said, give me a car like I have now without all the new and projected driver enhancing controls please.
 
Your faith in technology vs human control scares the hell outta me. Granted, most humans can't control a car. Maybe, when the driver-less cars come of age:

A. I'll be dead
B. There will be a driving test. Pass and you get the option. Fail and you get D-L or walk.
 
"silverblueBP" said:
Your faith in technology vs human control scares the hell outta me. Granted, most humans can't control a car. Maybe, when the driver-less cars come of age:

A. I'll be dead
B. There will be a driving test. Pass and you get the option. Fail and you get D-L or walk.
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Who said I had an enormous amount of faith? I was just pointing out the technology already established. Truth be told I am not a fan of some of the traction control and stability systems. I have always driven RWD and mainly manual vehicles. Time and again I have had situations that took all my ability to control the vehicle (many of my own doing!). With RWD and a manual gearbox, I am quite confident I can do as well or better than any computer controlled car. But like I'm sure most of us on this forum, I think I am quite above average in terms of driving skills. If there is one benefit to being born and raised rurally it is that we start driving very young and the roads are absent the POPO to interfere with our fun.

An you may be old but you aren't so old as to be dead before such technologies are upon us.
 
So Knight Rider might become reality? :dun

Next time I have to take a long trip I'd be all for it....leave in the evening, tell the car where I want to go and get a good night sleep in the back seat then wake up at my destination. :thum
 
The whole thing scares the sh!t out of me! I have little trust in most humans behind the wheel but this computer controlled crap takes the cake! I work on cars for a living, I see day to day all these computer failures, sensor failures, wiring failures and many other problems especially here in the Northeast! How many accidents are these systems going to cause while they are trying to avoid something like roadkill or a tire tread? Probably going to be a lot of rear ended computer driven cars! What happens when there is a design flaw like on the Toyotas a few year back? How many people will these computer controlled cars kill? Just another way to create a generation more stupid than the last. No need to learn anything... Hell, no need to work either, government has that covered as well.
 
News flash! GM is now claiming that it is developing a car that can actually pass a PT Cruiser without human intervention. Tests in 2010 on a closed track in the midwest provided the motivation for development; the first successful demonstration is awaiting a test driver willing to sit back and watch only. So far, recruitment across the country has not been positive; Iowa is the last state left to be examined.
 
Congressman takes ride in a driverless car in PA

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U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster in a self-driven Cadillac SRX that was modified by Carnegie Mellon University.

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130905_Congressman_takes_ride_in_a_driverless_car_in_Pa_.html

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Pretty sure I read an article a couple weeks ago about hackers being able to gain control of some functions of the cars on the road now. This could be disastrous.
 
"Midlife" said:
News flash! GM is now claiming that it is developing a car that can actually pass a PT Cruiser without human intervention. Tests in 2010 on a closed track in the midwest provided the motivation for development; the first successful demonstration is awaiting a test driver willing to sit back and watch only. So far, recruitment across the country has not been positive; Iowa is the last state left to be examined.
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You Sir deserve an award in writing excellence!


LMFAO
 
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