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I don't know why you keep insisting that self-driving cars are far off in the distant future when prototype vehicles already exist and have already logged hundreds of thousands of miles of accident-free autonomous driving in all kinds of environments and conditions.

Because those vehicles require a driver to take over a few times every trip. They can only be used on pre-selected and programmed courses and they don't yet work with the hive technology one needs to make the video above work. Then there are the data problems that relate to all of these cars trying to communicate massive amounts of data with one another and how that overwhelms current communication systems. There are probably another 2 dozen serious technical issues that need to be overcome.

When the lead engineer will buckle his new-born child into the car by themselves and send them between two places chosen at random (around 100 miles apart), then I'll buy that we're 30 years away.

Getting to the next level is significantly more difficult then putting the cars into production.

by David C on Mar 6, 2012 11:23 am • link • report

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