jaunty75

Anyone here live in Orlando? Let us know if you ride on one.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...219-story.html

Weezer

We have an experimental autonomous bus here at my workplace that prowls the parking lot most mornings. I rode in it when they first started it, and I was impressed. Of course, we have a tech that rides along and monitors it, but it has no driver controls aside from the tech having his laptop with him, and I think there might be an emergency stop button. Anyway... right now, it is still operating at very low speed, I think maybe only 5mph range. It's pretty slick, even though I only used it the one time. In general, it's running too slow to be of any benefit, but I would wait for it to come around if it was really rainy.

EDIT: OK, clicked on the link, ours looks VERY similar to this. I think the top speed of the BEEP being only 16mph may be a hindrance to usage, but this is where autonomous vehicles will start -- mass transit and delivery vehicles. Exciting stuff.

Olds64

The driver less cars are already here. Before too long (definitely in my lifetime) driving is going to be limited to classics driven to and from car shows.

coldwar

Yeah, they have had driver less vehicles in Florida for years:

Schurkey

That's like saying WWII was "exciting stuff".
Christians being eaten by lions is "exciting stuff".
ISIS is "exciting stuff".

I call it a goddam tragedy. When that system gets hacked or fails, lots of folks are going to die. The general principle is predictable as sunrise, but not as often.

Weezer

I suppose if you decide to live in fear and make ridiculous comparisons, then it's a tragedy. However, working in the industry and seeing the efforts made, as well as the redundancies and coding that is done to ensure the technology is safe, gives some of us a different perspective.

Olds64

In 10 years when driver less tech is available on the late model Kias will I use it when I drive 35 miles to and from work? Hopefully I'll be able to drive my truck or Olds more often instead.