DMV Approves Of Driverless Cars Without A Safety Driver
The California DMV recently granted Waymo a permit to test out its driverless cars on the city streets without a safety driver. The company reportedly has a fleet of about 40 vehicles that will soon be traveling around the state on city streets, highways, and rural roads.
Waymo is the first company to obtain the permit that will enable them to test completely driverless vehicles on the roads in the state.
There will be a remote operator that is going to monitor the progress of the driverless vehicles and if something goes wrong, they would be able to take over. Soon, there will be opportunities for members of the public to test the vehicles, at first though it will only be Waymo team members.
Self-driving cars have already claimed at least one life and there have been several accidents. This means that more companies have started paying attention to the importance of marketing safety with these vehicles and moving forward cautiously to build trust in this new industry.
Previous surveys have found that many Americans aren't looking forward to self-driving cars and they aren't ready to embrace this sort of driving technology just yet. It's going to be a difficult sell as there are millions of people who are still fearful of this driving technology.
At least 63 percent have reported that they are wary of embracing fully autonomous vehicles on the road. Even more, about 73 percent say that they are afraid of riding in a self-driving vehicle. It's not just riding in the car that has them scared either, some also report that they would be uneasy commuting as a pedestrian or riding a bicycle if there were an uptick of self-driving cars on the road. It is going to be very difficult for these companies to convince the people about the safety of the product.
Self-driving vehicles are expected to soon hit the streets (if they haven't already) in areas like Dubai, Sinagpore, the UK, and elsewhere.
Not just cars...
A number of trucking companies today are struggling to find drivers, it is likely that they will look to driverless trucks to provide a solution to their labor shortage.
As well, automakers and others who are interested in seeing the progression of the industry, have been actively pushing for the passage of a bill, known as the AV Start Act, that would make way for driverless vehicles to finally hit the road in the U.S. which are exempt from federal rules and more.
Hyundai has already indicated that they'll likely have a fully autonomous vehicle ready by 2030, Toyota, Mercedes, Ford, and many others have also been invested in pursuing autonomous vehicles and it's estimated that we might start to see many more of these vehicles finally on the market within only a few years time. They've still got plenty of convincing to do however, when it comes to persuading the public to invest in or experiment with this method of transportation.
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@doitvoluntarily the future is around the corner dear friend, I am not new to see vehicles without a driver, now he is doing tests of flying cars and 3 d printer to print human organs
Thank you very much for sharing the information
I wish you a great day
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm not looking forward to the day where my pizza is delivered by one of these.
what about pizza via drone? lol
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Autonomous vehicles can't come soon enough.
It's way past time to get all the drunks, texters, sleepers, and distracted drivers out of the picture. Our statistical safety will go through the roof!
Personally, I want the autonomous electric supersonic transcontinental vehicle yesterday. ;)
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How many people die due to smart cars? How often do they lock you out of your own car?
Hello, @joeyarnoldvn,
Here's some statistics I found reporting fatalities in autonomous vehicles. There is not a lot of information available yet, but the little so far known shows that autonomous vehicles have a slightly better record than humans when it comes to fatalities. My expectation is that as software and systems are refined, this record will only improve.
As far as autonomous vehicles locking you out, I have no information, though it seems unlikely that they would have any reason to do so.
I know people who were locked out of their cars. Do you want the same people that block you on Facebook to block you out of your car, to tell you where you can and cannot go in your car? People are dying because of it. These things are already happening. I could probably show you if you are unwilling or unable to see what is already happening.
So it sounds as if you are thinking of remote hacking? I'm willing to look at any information you may have.
However, I don't think that the existence of flawed and broken systems now is any reason not to look forward to improvements and further development of autonomous vehicles. It's just a good reason to fix whatever may be wrong with the implementations we have now.
Better operating systems and firmware, less centralization, etc.
Are those types of cars on a decentralized blockchain or are they on centralized systems?
The only ones I know about (i.e. Uber and Tesla) are centralized AFAIK... But the future is blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies, and that's the sort of car I would want.
Bitcoin competes with Rothschild. Decentralized markets are trying to compete with monopolies like Walmart & especially Amazon. It can be very challenging to go against empires like these. Therefore, and in reflection of that, can decentralized things go toe to toe with things like Uber, Tesla, etc? That's my concern. People have to want to not do Uber in order to go for alternatives. Bitcoin has not been around for a very long time when compared to centralized money systems. Likewise, getting people to away from Uber could be hard to do if they think Uber is great. If Uber really is great, then we don't need alternatives. If centralized money really is great, then we don't really need Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, etc.