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Sounds like a viable partnership, and if they focus on a key segment (such as ride sharing services around the city), I think they will have a stronger chance of success (instead of targeting every drive like others want to)
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I'm pushing 50 but still enjoy driving cars too much to get excited about this.
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Give it 10 years time and when you say I drive a manual car all that will mean is it has a steering wheel.
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I can't wait for an Automated Car for the Drive to and from work.
I love driving as much as anyone, but sitting in peak hour in traffic in Sydney for over an hour each way has an effect on you after many years. It won't take much to program a car to drive in City peak hour conditions at 10km/h. The sad thing is it is only going to get worse. So many new housing estates / unit blocks are being built but no changes to the roads are being made.
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I think driverless cars are a great idea for city driving. I'm not sold on driverless cars on the highways outside of metropolitan areas yet in saying that. What would a driverless car do if a kangaroo etc jumps out in from of it??
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Much like everything else really
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Hope so. I can see this being a very good thing for safety as well and would help more people get around. Maybe one day I'll see one in action at highway speed were something unpredictable such as that happens. If I see it. I'll be happy for them to be on our highways and major roads in the bush/outback.
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I'd say because there is still a certain amount of input from the occupant that they would be subject to the drink driving laws of the day and held accountable. Cheers Mick |
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Couldn't think of anything worse than sitting passively in an unreliable machine, driven by an unreliable machine over unreliable conditions and unreliable terrain.....
A totally unreliable idea.
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Nice partnership only if it doesn't eventually lead to future national transport legislation here calling for a ban on all non cyber ic cars off the road permanently... No thanks!!!
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If it stops my wife from gutter rashing the rims all the time I’m all for self-drivers for some people.
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It will be interesting if sometime in the future we wind up a generation that no longer have the skills to self drive..................
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These blokes are a bit late. My car already drives itself. Chuck the auto box in drive. And nek minute, no foot on the accelerator car drives forward. What's the fuss?
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![]() Seriously though you're right, if you're forced to drive to work it's only going to get worse...and that goes for any capital city. The more they widen the roads the more people drive on them. |
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This was completely predictable
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Reading that article it sounds like they have their work cut out for them trying to make the robot cars drive to stay alive/keep the occupants alive , some humans wont even do that.
I`m thinking if i was going to buy an autonomous car , it had better be built like a tank , because i envisage panel damage in the short term. |
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