gimmi80
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I don't see any reason the human in the car should be doing anything but the pattern-matching to watch for 'weirdness'. Everything routine should be automated. But that isn't fully automated: the human has to be alert at all times.
I think the most like scenario for self-driving car will be urban taxi or the typical ride airport-downtown, for which I think they would work great probably even at the current state of progression.
Second will be highway vehicle going on sort of HOV lanes with no problems.
I agree the more difficult scenario is the farm road. I live in a deer "infested" are and I doubt a software will be able to recognize and act properly when the deer is standing on the side of the road looking at you.
the semi-automated scenario is the most dangerous one. Because human driver will be lazy not hold the steering wheel let the car so all the job and the pattern recognition thing will occur too late once they already crash.
Wasnt it on this forum that I read of a guy crushing his tesla out to the dealer because was trusting blondly the TACC...
impelnt autosafety (such as the one you mentioned of the car not letting you crash the other driver in you blind spot) should be implemented ASAP.
Regarding the 50 year thing, that's obviously an exaggeration. Progress will come much quicker specially as UBER and other like-über innovative company find a way to monetize on it. I don't know how long it will take by if I was a soon-to-be taxi driver getting ready to buy a $150'000 license/permit I would probably think twice about it.