This weekend Elon Musk announced that the latest series of Tesla model S can easily be transformed into self driving vehicles through the means of a software update. He says that within three months we can have the first autonomous vehicles driving on the road.
And there’s more news; the Belgian department of Mobility has announced they will give the green light for autonomous vehicles on Belgian roads.
But before you go out spotting cars without drivers there’s a few things you need to know. First Tesla says it will only allow autonomous driving on the highway, because city traffic is still too complex for the computational force available.
Second according to the law, somebody still has to be present, able to take over the wheel and he or she has to have a valid driver’s license. So you won’t be able to call your car and get you home after a night out of drinking, because you won’t be able to take over the wheel in an emergency.
Than there’s the question of insurance. Who has to pay when an accident happens. The insurance companies will use the same policy as they do with self parking cars, meaning they will have the driver pay and not the manufacturer.
What do you think of all these recent announcements? Do you think the autonomous car is a good thing or is it too soon to release it?
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This autonomous cars sounds really good, but i still worried about its safety problem, even in the high way. Because the speed of the car is really high, any small mistaken of the driving will bring a disaster. And autonomous car is not like an airplane in the air, there still many other car driving behind or in front of you. I think the autonomous car is still too soon to release.
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I think that autonomous cars can be the future. They will certainly be much safer than people driving the car. For example if a car starts to break in front of you, the computer will see it much faster than the driver.
But a problem I see with this technology is that what if the car has been hacked? If someone takes over the car, then it will be very unsafe.
Not only can an autonomous car be hacked, but they relay on technologies that can be influenced. For example the new mercedes car uses sonar to know how far the next car is. This sonar can be spoofed. This will let the car believe it is much closer or further away. This will be a problem that has to be solved before I will trust a car to drive itself.
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