You Won't Need a Driver's License by 2040: Cool or Crazy?
Chris D
2012/09/19 17:00:00
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Self-driving cars are on the way and some experts predict that "autonomous" cars will account for 75 percent of the traffic on the roads by 2040. It sounds funky to me, but it might be nice to have your car drive you home after a night out at the pub! What do you think?
CNN.COM reports:
CNN.COM reports:
The timeline for autonomous cars hitting the road en masse keeps getting closer. GM's Cadillac division expects to produce partially autonomous cars at a large scale by 2015, and the automaker also predicts it will have fully autonomous cars available by the end of the decade. Audi and BMW have also shown self-driving car concepts, with the former working with Stanford to pilot a modified TT up Pikes Peak.
Meanwhile, Google is ripping along at its own rapid pace with a fleet of fully autonomous Toyota Prius hybrids that have logged over 300,000 miles. And the company has pushed through legislation that legalizes self-driving cars in Nevada. California is close behind, and Google has also been busy lobbying joyriding lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
Read More: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/tech/innovation/ieee...
Top Opinion
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wolf sloan 2012/09/19 21:59:12Crazy
+12More likely,we won't need a driver's license by then is because some group will claim that it is racist to ask to see one.
I mostly agreed with your list, well except for that "There's an app for that," which I seriously don't think is necessarily so bad. And did you see the movie, Castaway? The character, played by Tom Hanks, could so much have used a grill fire-starter. Makes fire, so easy. He figured out how to make fire stranded on that island, but only after much grief and bloodied hands.
BTW, I think I like dry-erase boards, so much better. Less, nasty chalk dust all over. Better and more vivid colors.
A tablet computer can also be charged in a car, by one of those nifty cigarette lighter USB chargers. They are tiny devices, and don't cost very much. Some cars leave the power on to the cigarette lighter, even when the car is completely off. And the power requirement is so small, there's no need to start up the car, to recharge a tablet. However, make sure the car isn't too hot baking in the sun. Tablets may not like that too well.
Only 10 votes per person.
Self-drive, flying, "free energy" car. Now that's where it's at!
Even the Jetsons had 2 out of 3. Hard to imagine back then, that one day computers might actually be capable of driving-, make that flying, a car.
Would 1 out of 3, work?
lolol~
You will have a chip implanted for I D purposes. Everyone will be fingerprinted and DNA on file. If you take a crap they will know about it. You think government is invasive now
Watch out. If u cheat on ur wife it will be known. Forget freedoms way too expensive.
If u try to drink a big gulp or have sex in ur car well just forget about it. If u get in the car
With alcohol on ur breath it won't start. There will be digital cameras everywhere.
But I only had six tons of wheat on the truck and only had 3 miles to make it to the mill for storage....yes, it was a county road.