Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

That review will involve a rewrite of the Highway Code and ..., potentially taking into account whether a higher standard of driving should be demanded of automated vehicles.

err, a higher standard than that currently described in the Highway Code? Surely they mean a higher standard than most UK drivers. Though I suppose that the Highway Code is such a confusion of who has priority and who is responsible to look out for whom in different circumstances, trying to program an AI to abide by the HC will cause it to get stuck in an infinite loop and implode

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/audi/news/driverless-audi-on-sale-in-2017/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11410507/Is-Apple-building-a-driverless-car.html

Cabbies are, not surprisingly, not keen on driverless cars.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-03/27/hailo-driverless-cars

"People don't want robots; they need to know that their driver will get them from A to B safely and securely. Nothing can replace the relationship a passengers builds with their driver and we need to stand up for drivers," says Hailo CEO Gary Bramall.

Bahahahahahhaa

OMG that's amazing. AMAZING.

I wonder if Gary has even met a cab driver. Or, just other people.

@Hailo Actually, we DO want robots. Quick as you can please. Can't wait for much safer roads.

Far less likely to be able to rape someone too.

Nothing can replace the relationship a passengers builds with their driver

Harsh!
Cabbie rape is not what he was referring to!

Cabbies must be shitting themselves, what with more people riding bikes rather than taking cabs, TfL stats pointing the finger at them as the most dangerous road users, and they will still have families to support and may need to find another job, there will probably be a need for more cycle trainers if they would like to work in the same area. I suppose they could donate the part of their brains where their knowledge is stored to help the AI drivers

I predict a core UKIP policy will be banning robot cars

I'm really looking forward to seeing how the mass interactions of driverless and driven cars is going to work:

When a driverless car spots a driven one, it has to be cautious and defer because the human is more than likely an idiot, it's going to have to give way more often, and slow down. Can a human in a sea of robots can be an arsehole with impunity because the robots will save themselves and get out of the way?

When a driverless car spots another driverless car they can communicate and decide on the most mutually beneficial set of maneuvers to both be as quick as possible, if necessary one deferring to the other but both being quicker overall than if there was a human involved. This might well work between two google cars but what happens if a google car spots a sony car? They can communicate, decide what's going on and what to do but the sony car could, for example, betray the google car and jump in front. Now sony cars are faster than google cars.

People still call each other cunts, now they just wind down the rear windows instead. I'm looking forward to seeing rival robot passengers fighting in the street while the cars park up out of the way and wait patiently for the angry flesh to calm down.

Meanwhile bicycles get "Collision Undermining Nano-Technology" and my 2018 phil hub with wifi automatically locks when the last human on the road pulls backwards out of nowhere and I bang out the perfect whip-to-sideways-stop-and-smirk while instagramming it live.

http://www.transport-network.co.uk/Nevada-State-gives-Daimler-license-to-use-driverless-truck/11695

#woah #cool

It's shocks me that it's taken so long for trucks to go automated. Industry normally leads the way, haulage doesn't really need a driver only in cities.

The American state was chosen for the trials after European counterparts had been slow to approve regulations for similar vehicles, Daimler said.

This makes me sad.

I thought Britain was leading the way with this stuff? What happened?

I'm going to blame the tories.

Or the Lib dems.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/15/google-testing-purpose-built-self-driving-cars-public-roads

a bit late, but this Freightliner is also fully sick:

God, read about this yesterday.

Obv early days but the thing that I'm interested in is, yeah it can see a person crossing the road casually and slow down accordingly but does it have enough awareness to 'read the road'. Like when you can tell someone is going to walk into the road before they do, or that a dodgy cyclist is going to ball across two lanes of traffic.

Car traffic tends to be pretty predictable, ( and unfortunately) mostly through stereotyping. It's the ped and cycle traffic that I worry about.

Ooops...

(Caution - contains scenes of mild peril)

http://fusion.net/story/139703/self-parking-car-accident-no-pedestrian-detection/

"He said the car is not attempting to self-park. “It seems they are trying to demonstrate pedestrian detection and auto-braking,” said Larsson by email. “Unfortunately, there were some issues in the way the test was conducted.”

The main issue, said Larsson, is that it appears that the people who bought this Volvo did not pay for the “Pedestrian detection functionality,”

So they're trying to demonstrate a feature that the car doesn't have. Like crashing it into a wall and hoping the non-existent airbags save your life. Clever cookies.