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Originally Posted by rocky raccoon
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heres the truck-
Self-driving 18-wheeler delivers the first shipment: Beer | Computerworld
you arent fully thinking about the ramifications of this technology. imagine a situation where you get on the highway and set "self drive", and most other cars on the highway are set to "self drive" also, and everyone is placidly tooling along at 55-65 without road rage, without tailgating, without all the nonsense we take for granted daily right now.
If this tractor trailer can reliably self drive NOW, where do you think this technology will be in 20 to 30 years? The article is very interesting, the company that built the system envisions depots where local drivers take over, and otherwise the trucks are sent out driverless to the next depot.
I can see the hybrid adaption of this technology easily being applied to passenger cars for limited use, and even being retrofitted to older cars. Lets say the highway becomes a network, you hit self drive at a marked point on the onramp, the data that a new car is entering the highway is reported to cars approaching, all cars adjust speed automatically to allow the new car to merge in seamlessly, before its even visible.
We will be entering a fascinating world of automotive developments coming up, camera and sensor technology continues to improve exponentially.