The hype around driverless cars, or autonomous vehicles as they’re also known, is increasing, with Google on Tuesday taking reporters for spins around the city of Mountain View, Calif. Figuring prominently in resulting news reports were the big red kill button between these cars’ front seats; the emphasis on safety in their design; and yes, a few abrupt lane changes and one case of shuddering at a turn when a bus was close by. Still, there’s no denying that the auto industry is gaga about autonomous vehicles.
Two things kill self driving cars. The first is habitual traits of humans who have always driven and been in control of their vehicle. Remember even when we are not driving we sometimes are the proverbial back seat driver. Second, is the fear factor that something will drastically go wrong in the gradual change over to self driving vehicles. Namely, a loss of control, how will they react to bad human driving actions and also how comfortable will a human be allowing a computer to drive. We have witness this in airlines in a reluctance to have pilot free airplanes. By nature, humans want to be in control and if they cannot they want to entrust another human to do that. I have my doubts that this will change for the sake of technology.
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Steering Driverless Cars to Market
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 14, 2014 02:52 PMThe hype around driverless cars, or autonomous vehicles as they’re also known, is increasing, with Google on Tuesday taking reporters for spins around the city of Mountain View, Calif. Figuring prominently in resulting news reports were the big red kill button between these cars’ front seats; the emphasis on safety in their design; and yes, a few abrupt lane changes and one case of shuddering at a turn when a bus was close by. Still, there’s no denying that the auto industry is gaga about autonomous vehicles.