How Long Can We Expect To Drive Before Trucks and Cars are Automated?

Welcome to Canada...... where they paint the lines in July, only for them to be covered in snow by November. Then by spring they're worn off and we wait until July again.

 

Not for a while. We've got much bigger fish to fry,,,

 

We already have loads under the control of 1 moron, we just call them train engineers.

 

I like when they would do paint test to see which colour they though was prettier.

Made sure to run over the ones I didn't like.

You keep your dark orange in Massachusetts sir.

 

When self driving cars become commonplace then you should start thinking about it. And I don't just mean Tesla, I mean when Ford, GM, Toyota etc all have self driving models available and they are regularly in use on the roads without major issue, then and only then do any of us need to think about being replaced. Not that it will happen, but we can start thinking about it then.

Even the above self driving cars need a butt in the seat. Truly autonomous cars with no driver will never happen without a dedicated road or rail system to accommodate them.

 

That's going to be one hell of a video.

My car has this lane keep assist feature where you can let go of the wheel and the car will do a pretty impressive job of staying in the lane...until it reaches a section of road where old lane markings are mixed with new ones then it spazzes out and starts beeping at me before heading for the guardrail.

 

If I wanted to park my ### in a seat and not drive, I'd catch a bus. I enjoy driving and the last thing I want is a car that takes that enjoyment out of my life. I'll walk before I buy a self driving car.

 

I enjoy driving too, but crawling along in rush hour traffic is not what I would call enjoyable driving. I would have no qualms about pushing a button and letting a computer do the crawling for me in those circumstances.

 

Funny how they choose to automate things that would save corporations billions rather than anything that would benefit society.

 

They better jack up corporate taxes then. Once all the jobs are gone the government's going to have to pay for everybody to sit at home and watch TV all day