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Old 05-09-2012, 04:16 AM   #44
Jake
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This is sure an interesting topic. I can't see manual driving getting outlawed in our life time, but would governments allow roads with mixed autonomous and manually driven vehicles? I'd drive an autonomous car to work everyday if it significantly reduced insurance costs, but at the same time I'd like sports cars to stick around.

Either way, I'm sure there are challenges left. A lot of sensors have issues with rain, for example. I wonder if the Google car analyses digital video in real time, or if it just relies on lasers and other sensors. I don't see any other way it could detect red/green lights (since it was driven around Nevada, I assume it can do that), so I think it probably does.

I think there are some easy solutions to the weather issue. Not everything needs to be automated, the driver could always enter weather conditions into a computer manually before leaving.
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