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yeah i guess it won't be able to handle alien landings and EMP attacks but i feel like those are not real concerns

google's car has a 360 degree view of 200m to create representation of objects

and google cars might be able to "turn off" but they have no steering control. the original test bed ones did, but now they have cars that are more exactly like "horseless carriages"

Look at it this way. Eventually, one of these self driving cars is going to mow down somebody's pigtailed daughter. Or wipe out a family in a minivan. Its going to happen. And there will be OUTRAGE.

But we have to play a numbers game. How many are going to die at the hands of human drivers as opposed to tireless, inhumanely fast, networked, machines?

Hell, just eliminating the drunk drivers would be enough to justify the whole thing, statistically. There's one third of car deaths, gone. Just like that.

http://www.national.co.uk/tech-powers-google-car/ here's some info on it

it will even interpret cyclists if they use correct signs

they dont need to be universal. to have roads work optimally, where you can basically be speeding far above today's speed limit safely all the time, they would need to be universal. but as a self contained unit and do the job that currently humans do, they dont need to be universal.

i'm not sure how high the lasers scan, but i think it probably would have realized that there was an incoming object into my car that destroyed my windshield a few months back, and made appropriate maneuvers that i failed to make. and that thing, as far as i know, fell from the heavens.

most cars would probably have manual override, but robotaxis probably wouldn't

This is awesome and epic. The minute I have my loans paid off or move to a place where I need to drive, I'm buying a tesla. Already see a ton of model s driving around and autopilot is a feature I've been dreaming of for my whole life. Could hop in hammered after a Saturday night out in NYC and be home in suburban VA by morning.