You will always have to be capable of taking over so still no drinking if driving I'm afraid.
Slime
Tour Winner
So they're not 'driverless' then?
I think you will always have to have manual override. They will be driver less for most of the time but I don't think you will be able to entirely remove the possibility of having the human element if required. Not for some time yet anyway.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
There's an awful lot of drivers who are not capable of overtaking now.
Slime
Tour Winner
Driverless RAC and AA vans ............................. :rofl:.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
I remember driving on the M4 about 30 years ago.
It was packed and all three lanes were moving along at about 55mph.
I said to the good wife that this was silly and they should invent a drive on/off conveyor system instead.
It was packed and all three lanes were moving along at about 55mph.
I said to the good wife that this was silly and they should invent a drive on/off conveyor system instead.
The interesting thing is that 55mph works brilliantly when the motorways are rammed. The traffic keeps moving. Those situations are when driverless will work really well.
larmen
Head Pro
The problem is that one person in the outside lane driving 52 mph
GB72
Money List Winner
Interest in how the AI for driverless cars is programmed to handle certain situations. If there is the possibility of a collision with a pedestrian or swerving and causing injury to the driver, which does it choose.
I would guess it will be programmed with various situations and it will carry out a risk analysis where the least risk to human life is caused. I suspect it is does not take the driver above all others although I could be wrong.
Ha ha, very true although the traffic will still be moving, even though at 52 not 55. Either option is better than 70mph, and above, down to 5mph, back up to 70, back down to 5mph etc. In heavy traffic, high speeds do not work.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
This could have a selector, from caring mode, all the way through to me first, i dont give a stuff mode for van drivers.
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
I think that mode is 14 wheel tipper trucks...........
Ha ha. Especially appropriate this morning according to my wife who whilst driving to work in icy conditions was tailgated and then overtaken on a single lane slip road by a white van with a death wish.
