Cor,
I disagree completely. It is likely we will never have self driving vehicles on
the freeway or in any other venue.Personally I think this is an exercise doomed
to failure. The road is a complicated place and cannot be compared toair flight
where few obstacles are encountered. This is evidenced by the Tesla that drove
under the Semi.
One day I was driving and the vehicle in front of me swerved because of an
obstacle in the roadway and of courseI ran over it. It was a piece of tire from
a Semi which flipped up and tore a gash in my drivers door. How are
sensors going to detect things like that? Or lets say there's a sudden
downpour, or you crest a hill and there's blindingsunlight I believe that many
will attempt this and it will end in failure. It's one this t insure
individuals it's a wholenew thing to insure software..... after all if the cars
driving then the cars at fault....... who pays?
From: Cor van de Water via EV <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Fwd: EVLN: GM's 1st 200mi EV will launch as
adriverless(autonomous) Lyft platform
Paul,
The reason they only go 25 MPH is simply that Google wanted a car fast
and so had to choose to classify them as NEV. Any other 4-wheeled
vehicle would have needed crash testing which is not only expensive and
difficult but also a lengthy process. It makes no sense if you are just
creating a testing platform with a few hundred vehicles.
Of course 25 MPH helps in getting slightly longer reaction times due to
low speed, but that is not a concern for Google, they wanted experience
with a self-driving platform in daily traffic situations and that is
what they are getting, never mind that these vehicles can't go on the
freeway - the freeway is not a very interesting place for a self-driving
vehicle.
Cars being for sale or not has no bearing on the concerns from the
posters stating that they do not want to be around self-driving cars,
well in downtown Mountain View you can't avoid that...
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 2:39 PM
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Subject: [EVDL] Fwd: EVLN: GM's 1st 200mi EV will launch as
adriverless(autonomous) Lyft platform
While technically Google cars can drive around they only travel a max
speed of 25mph. They are intended as couriers and they aren't for sale
as far as I know.
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