Who's Gonna Drive me Home Tonight?

By Unregistered User (not verified), 21 May, 2022

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Will it ever be an Apple car? And if so, when?

For the record I'm saying 2040 or thereabout.

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By Holger Fiallo on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

They can not make one without having AI technology. For that you need what people call quantum computer. PC that is similar to out brain able to process more info faster than regular PC and capable to do multi tasking without slowing down.Today PC are faster but not able to decide what task is first. Sad you and I will be not alive.

By Bruce Harrell on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

Have Apple's test cars been taken off the road? I thought they're still being tested around the US.

I'd sure love to hop in my Apple iCar someday and tell it where to take me. smile

By OldBear on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

Accessibility for visual impairments will be a slow battle for self-driving cars, starting with taxi type services, but a legitimate concern of blind people, long before that battle is won or lost, will be the lack of auditory cues from the actual machinery of the vehicle. I am lucky enough to live on a fairly quiet street in a nowhere kind of neighborhood, but the current gas/electric cars sometime used by taxi services here would be impossible to hear in busier places. I hope they will have some foresight over this... Might take a few good splattering incidents to get it addressed.

By Dennis Long on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

It won't happen anytime soon. Then until the blind are allowed to use it good luck it will be another 40 or 50 years later.

By sockhopsinger on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

Even if people start using self-driving cars soon, it won't be me. It is going to be a long time before AI will be able to compete with the stupidity of many human drivers.

By kool_turk on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

To add to the previous comment, the only way I see it happening is if you take away the human driver for all vehicles.

Let's face it, I think hell will freeze over before that happens.

If the roads have a mix of both human and driverless vehicles, there's going to be problems.

In theory, machines can talk to each other and avoid collisions.

What do us humans do? road rage and honk our horns at each other.

I just hope it doesn't end up like that movie called Upgrade, or that TV show called Next.

I'll be amazed if it does happen in my lifetime.

By Holger Fiallo on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

The car will always need human supervision. Blind person would not be able to stop the car if an emergency happens yet sighted person would react to what he sees. Think of them in 2021 for them. Need the structure to handle the cars similar to what planes have in the air. Someone monitores the planes to avoid air crush. Most planes flight by themselves but they still have humans to watch.

By LaBoheme on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

technically, you need at least level 4 autonomy. since it is driverless, there is no need for a driver holding a license. level 4 autonomy has been operating commercially ibn some parts of the world:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/baidu-and-pony-ai-each-score-permits-to-operate-driverless-taxi-service-in-beijing/

elon musk, at least for now, is not serious about self driving, he only uses it as a marketing gambit, that's why he is content with level 2 autonomy; google and gm are actually more ambitious in the us.

By LaBoheme on Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 17:23

quote, imagine a self driving mobility scoooter that can go anywhere. Now that would be coool... Even if we'd look like prats riding them. unquote

true self driving cars with level 4 autonomy aren't supposed to have steerring wheel, so you can sit on the driver seat, but why would you want to do that? big bosses always sig in the back seat, they don't ride shotgun beside their chauffeurs.