Great talk, but I'm interested in hearing how autonomous cars might change traffic patterns and what it might mean to have all our 18 wheelers, garbage, and mail trucks automated.
I like the idea that we can become "time share" owners in self-driving autonomous vehicles. This can truly become a huge disruptor in mass transportation. Also, as a cyclist, I'm keen on the potential added safety factor of smarter cars that are more aware of bicyclist and pedestrians that are less likely to veer off the road onto shoulders, etc.
i absolutely loved this talk. even though i am very interested in the topic of autonomous cars, it never occurred to me that they can be used as a service like described in the video. but after hearing it, i agree that this is clearly the way autonomous cars are to be used to utilize their full potential. it is so obvious and powerful that i'm really baffled how this never occurred to me before. ^^ i am certain that from the day the first company provides this service, the majority of teenagers this option comes available for will not take the hassle of getting a drivers licence and buying a car, but will go with this service instead. demand will be incredibly high, so that autonomous car services will quickly become available in every major city, then in smaller cities, then in every place where a sufficient road network is. it's just beautiful when simplicity leads to efficiency... and a network of autonomous cars based on the service concept presented in this talk is a great example for this. no longer a need for buses, trains, subways, parking lots, garages, ... and all the environmental and personal benefits (more time and mobility) ... just amazing. :)
I would put my money on China to be at the lead of large scale deployment. They have the local manufacturing ability and the government there would really like to phase out fuel powered cars if it could. Automotive pollution is costing them billions every year in health care and associated costs. Singapore would also likely be another early mass adopter. Basically those with the greatest internal need and the political ability to meet that need will be ahead of the game.I would tend to agree that Samsung in Korea would be looking at moving into this new market as has the potential to make them the biggest corp in the world. They have both the production and technological R&D capabilities to dominate this market if they get in early enough.
Do you think there will be a conversion industry that pops up to convert preexisting cars into autonomous cars? I love my 1993 Dodge Daytona and I'm planning on keeping it for my whole life.
Several thoughts came up as I watched this video: (1) Google is one step ahead of car manufacturers, thinking outside of the box. (2) Taxi drivers will need to find another profession. (3) You’ll see more people out in the world, driving around, sightseeing, and getting work done. (4) As more and more people opt to take their cars on long road trips instead of flying to wherever they need to go, the competitiveness of airfare will increase. (5) I’m glad I didn't buy a new car. By the time these cars come out, I’ll have enough money to buy one. (6) It’d great to remove our dependence on foreign oil. (7) 2016! The sooner, the better.
The concept is very interesting, but our infrastruture is not ready for autonomous vehicles right now. It will be many years until we reach that point.
Yeah, I'm waiting until I can get a Tesla-style electric car with google-style self driving powers. I don't hate driving per say, but it does get boring when you're making your same commute in the morning and stuff like that. If I could watch TV, game, or even just sleep for that hour to and from work instead of driving, I would jump on that in a heartbeat.
The problem with not owning your own car is supply. If you live carless now and take cabs when needed and walk otherwise, you know how hard it can be to get a cab if everyone else wants one at the same time (Like if you stop to buy groceries after work when it's raining and you're waiting an hour while your ice cream melts) Private driverless cabs will be supplied for the average demand, not the peak demand at 2am New Years Day. So people will still want to control their transportation if they can afford it.
I am very excited about this because Americans have to get out of their giant super powered vehicles. It's not cool anymore to be burning 10 times more fuel than you need to to haul yourself around. I stopped driving about 15 years ago. I would get back in a car if it were small, light, efficient, and drove itself.
Just go find an 88-91 honda crx HF. It's small, cheap, light, super reliable, super car handling at anything under 80 mph, and gets 45 mpg. The best short distance car ever built. AND IT WAS DESIGNED OVER 25 YEARS AGO!
Thanks for the tip. Sounds like a great car, but what this video is talking about are personal transport vehicles that will make 45 miles to the gallon look ridiculously inefficient. This type of car will quickly move away from the combustion engine, and hopefully our power grid will be largely shifted toward zero emission energy sources.
Assuming the tech finally functions as is promised (big assumption maybe but..) I agree when he suggests the best model for how this tech may be implemented is 'as a taxi' as 'it wouldn't even park it all it would just go and pick up the next person it has to pick up.' Imagined thus as a massive coordinated on the road flow 24 hour Taxi fleet it would remove the need for cities to have huge parking facilities, and I believe will remove much of the desire for personal ownership of vehicles. This is especially important for cities with dense populations and car use such as L.A which he cites but all planners will surely adapt and make best use (as they see it) of the potential benefits (economic and one would hope civic) of the freed estate in this model. Once a critical mass of these vehicles is established pick up times will decrease to negligible amounts. Of course as taxis they could be prebooked well in advance but for spontaneous journeys If all you have to do is type a code into your phone and 3 mins later a taxi is waiting it's equivalent in time to getting your car out of your garage, which can now be converted into that games room you've always wanted.. Congestion would be reduced by centrally coordinated gps monitoring of flows. Even giving options to the user to pay more or less for certain routes or access to fast lanes in motorway etc to regulate travel congestion further, which could be easily amended in transit as per the changing desires of the passenger regarding ETA and updates to the levels of congestion etc
Getting rid of parking lots? Where are you going to store all the cars that are not in use? As you said the small self driving cars will replace busses, so that means 20 to 40 vehicles will replace one bus. I think that will take up even more space.
Wont the warehouse still be a parking lot with that concept, and that would require even more room then the conventional parking lots around the roads.
As suggested though in my estimation not emphasized enough If they are run as a fleet of taxis24/7 they need never park other than to pick up passengers or for refueling maintenance purposes. I see no reason for not having driverless buses/coaches with some proviso for security where further congestion is to be avoided. Personal car ownership may become superfluous under these conditions.
I would estimate that near 50% of them will not be used at night. And if you think about it, the wait time to get one at your door if it is "as a taxi" would be too long to compete with the convenience of a personal vehicle, unless there are seriously a lot of them. And that requires storing them close by. You cant seriously think that humans are so well organised that the cars wont have any time to be stored/unused.
Rain Master most cars will be tiny compared to today's cars. First remember that. Second, they can just drive to the outskirts of town(where land is cheap) to a warehouse specially designed for these small cars. As demand rises/is predicted to rise, cars will be launched from the warehouses as needed to fit demand.
I don't think it will spread like wild fire. I like the whole concept but I am just not willing to give up the control. I like driving. I like the feel of the road and I don't want some computer taking that away from me. I don't believe I am the only one. On a side note I think it would be excellent for some industry's like shipping and transportation.
The thing that still scares me is the fact that computers can and do malfunction. Just yesterday, my computer keyboard went insane. The hyphen, the p, and the volume were all stuck somehow. I had to get a friend to help me put some code into the terminal and completely disable the keyboard (I'm using a wireless one right now). What if that happens to my car while I'm on the freeway? I would really like pedals and a steering wheel so that just in case something goes wrong, I don't have to just sit back and die.
I'd like to see how the payments will be worked out. Will there be discounts for paying for every weekday of a month in advance? Will a business pay the fare of their clients (ie "We're BabiesRUs, bring mothers to us and pay 10% of their fare here")? Could I get a discount by agreeing to be the hands necessary to pump fuel into the car? Could I get a discount if I agree to ride with strangers on a large vehicle over long distances? (Anything's better than paying car repair bills, insurance, and car payments)
Some of us have kids, and most of our trips include them- it would be nice if people who talk about the future of transportation acknowledge that. Until we can decant our children and raise them in creches we do need to remember them in our planning.
This video is mostly based on the premise that the car can "come to you" however, the reality is that the person has to be in the car when it is driving so that the person can be held liable when the car runs someone over
I like the idea of being able to put a car on autopilot on the road, but I would still like it to have back up controls I don't understand why you wouldn't want that in a autonomous vehicle. Personally I wouldn't even want by a car without them. That just sounds like a recipe for disaster and with all these defective vehicles coming out these days, I can see it as being only a matter of time until someone has an accident on these things.
People want to own things, they don't want to order the car to come to them like that, what if the last person who used it left their old McDonalds in there, or tissues, and the seat adjustments? People want a customized car for them. If a family has two cars, like it normally does in north america, they would get one off roader for example and one sedan, and have the car drop someone off and pick up the next person, and have the right one of their cars do the thing for them, not order some public car.
I'm not remotely excited for this... but then I'm a minority in being a driving enthusiast. For most people cars are nothing more than a tool to get from one point to another, which is fine, but as somebody who just loves driving I dread a time when automated cars might become mandatory.
I imagine you will still be able to drive. If they ever ban human driven cars (unlilely in my opinion) I don't think anyone alive today would still be young enough to drive. Plus, it just means it is safer, and fewer idiots will be driving. That should be a great thing for driving enthusiasts.
Let's just hope these "driverless cars" are also "insuranceless" since the "driver" no longer bears responsibility. Hahaha sorry I forgot, this is "BigThink" not "BigHope".
I will put my trust in the humans who programmed the algorithms that control the cars. I'd rather read, watch something, or eat in the back seat while someone or something drives me around. Bring on the autonomous cars. I welcome them.
Once we have robots doing cheap domestic deliveries and collections, it will become much easier and cheaper to rent all kinds of rarely used items. So it wont just be cars that we no longer need to own.
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So, I've been watching this issue in last few weeks in both interest and fear after hearing Elon Musk saying that the conventional car/ driver combo may be banned. I am very much a car enthusiast and love driving and working on my car. I also doubt I will ever willingly let that car go or let that part of my life slip, its been a major part of my life sense I was kid and even was the main contributor to the degree I took in college and the job I sought directly after graduating. I am also currently in my early-mid 20's so I will see this in my life time and have to deal with the consequences. So I guess what I'm saying is whats supposed to happen to me? This being said I'm not against the technology and it does sound convenient for my once a month 5 hour drive home, sleeping on the way to work, and drinking on the weekends without ever needing to drive myself. I just don't ever want to see a time where someone tells me I can't drive, and I can't share that art of my life with my kids / grand kids when that day comes. Even if they do I will probably just pull a rush red barchetta and ignore them regularly. So opinions on this? Especially considering more than likely all the tech will already be in place to facilitate both driver and driver-less, made during the transition time.
Thank God now when I pull out of McDonalds I can take out the burger and devour it even before I get home!! When will a robot come out that wipes my ass?
that oil argument is pretty weak. while we may not be going to war for oil. Batteries are made of rare earth metals. So we would just go to war for those... I am generally conflicted about autonomous cars. On the one hand it would very likely to reduce car accidents significantly and we could be productive on our commute. So those are great. On the other hand, I sometime enjoy driving and the danger of getting your car hacked is a scary factor as well and depending on some nerd programming skills with my life also a difficult thing to overcome. But I think its coming and there is nothing we can do about it.
The human brain is 100 000 times worse than a computer when it comes to providing consistent concentrated effort, focus, attention span, it makes poor judgement based on emotions, gets easily distracted etc. So.. It's your loss.
***** I never said anything about it's complexity? I'm saying that a machine/computer would be better at performing a specific task without any errors, in this case driving a cab, then humans are. You can verify this if you look at any racing video game, even the best players crash or lose focus after some time, while the AI opponents can drive flawlessly. The same principle can be applied on the real roads. So a cab driven by a computer would be a lot safer than a cab driven by a human.
No I'm not old. Afraid of technology? Um yeah for one it aids in further centralizing control and human domestication. 2 job will be lost. Etc 3 I don't trust computers enough to drive me.
He addresses this in the video: Would you rather get hit by a drunk driver or a machine error? [Wish we could prevent ANY disaster, but we're trading out for a lesser evil]
I will never buy an autonomous car. Its not that i dont trust computers but driving is too much fun. I wont even buy an automatic anymore because manual is more fun.
8 years later, nothing has become reality. Then again, Brad Templeton is clearly someone too fat to fit behind a steering wheel, so that is why he is desperately trying to will AVs into existence.
The Red Willow maybe but I'd imagine that not every cab driver or car salesmen could programme tech like this, not saying that it isn't a good point though
Ben Harrison Wouldn't it b great ifthey were trained to do so and gain a living wage? Granted, computer technology put TV Repairmen out of work, but created the tech industry....we could lose 100K jobs and gain 200K jobs...
Who is this guy, never heard of him. Not sure I want to either. But BigThink has delivered a consistently low quality of speakers for a while now, in my view. Like other so-called Internet Forum companies such as Fora.TV who make a business out of subjecting the public to their so-called panel of experts. Both Internet startups are heavily funded by venture Capitalists with strong links (if not investments) in mainstream media, which leads me to wonder if such companies would not deliberately reduce the quality of services they offer on one platform (the newer, less regulated one), in the hope that it will drive the market and their audience to more established mediums and networks where profit margins are higher.
Did you even bother to look the guy up? If expect to now ever expert and specialist on a topic then you have already been domesticated be mainstream media.
no, wasn't interested, didn't approve of his approach at communication, struck me as subtly caustic, like squirting lemon juice to plot out the course of molluscs or bacterial cultures. Domestication? Is that a bad thing? Where would the snail be without its shell? But is it possible to build housing with less deception and delusion? Unless what we seek is shelter from the truth
Great talk, but I'm interested in hearing how autonomous cars might change traffic patterns and what it might mean to have all our 18 wheelers, garbage, and mail trucks automated.
I like the idea that we can become "time share" owners in self-driving autonomous vehicles. This can truly become a huge disruptor in mass transportation. Also, as a cyclist, I'm keen on the potential added safety factor of smarter cars that are more aware of bicyclist and pedestrians that are less likely to veer off the road onto shoulders, etc.
"Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has the largest testicles of anyone in Silicone Valley." I'm really digging this guy's sense of humor.
i absolutely loved this talk. even though i am very interested in the topic of autonomous cars, it never occurred to me that they can be used as a service like described in the video. but after hearing it, i agree that this is clearly the way autonomous cars are to be used to utilize their full potential. it is so obvious and powerful that i'm really baffled how this never occurred to me before. ^^
i am certain that from the day the first company provides this service, the majority of teenagers this option comes available for will not take the hassle of getting a drivers licence and buying a car, but will go with this service instead. demand will be incredibly high, so that autonomous car services will quickly become available in every major city, then in smaller cities, then in every place where a sufficient road network is.
it's just beautiful when simplicity leads to efficiency... and a network of autonomous cars based on the service concept presented in this talk is a great example for this.
no longer a need for buses, trains, subways, parking lots, garages, ...
and all the environmental and personal benefits (more time and mobility) ... just amazing. :)
Main reason for no one buying electric vehicles is the unaffordable price for "normal" people.
"Because Elon Musk has the largest testicles of anyone in Silicon Valley"
I like you, Brad.
I want this yesterday. Can't come soon enough.
Really informative and interesting talk!
I really liked this video. This guy was really knowledgeable on the topic and it was really interesting. Very good video.
Is that even a question.Japan or Korea are gonna be the 1st to enable that.
Most likely, they've learned to embrace technology like this, while the western world is horribly conservative.
I would put my money on China to be at the lead of large scale deployment. They have the local manufacturing ability and the government there would really like to phase out fuel powered cars if it could. Automotive pollution is costing them billions every year in health care and associated costs.
Singapore would also likely be another early mass adopter. Basically those with the greatest internal need and the political ability to meet that need will be ahead of the game.I would tend to agree that Samsung in Korea would be looking at moving into this new market as has the potential to make them the biggest corp in the world. They have both the production and technological R&D capabilities to dominate this market if they get in early enough.
Pretty sure they were the first to implement self parking technology and stuff like that so it's possible.
Surma Sampo I highly doubt China will be one of the first. Driving culture there is totally different, way more crowded and unpredictable.
Do you think there will be a conversion industry that pops up to convert preexisting cars into autonomous cars? I love my 1993 Dodge Daytona and I'm planning on keeping it for my whole life.
Several thoughts came up as I watched this video:
(1) Google is one step ahead of car manufacturers, thinking outside of the box.
(2) Taxi drivers will need to find another profession.
(3) You’ll see more people out in the world, driving around, sightseeing, and getting work done.
(4) As more and more people opt to take their cars on long road trips instead of flying to wherever they need to go, the competitiveness of airfare will increase.
(5) I’m glad I didn't buy a new car. By the time these cars come out, I’ll have enough money to buy one.
(6) It’d great to remove our dependence on foreign oil.
(7) 2016! The sooner, the better.
The concept is very interesting, but our infrastruture is not ready for autonomous vehicles right now. It will be many years until we reach that point.
Adoption will also be slow at first. You can bet these will be expensive when we finally get them.
raney150 Agreed. The cost(s) for these adaptations will be enormous.
This is such a great channel!
Yeah, I'm waiting until I can get a Tesla-style electric car with google-style self driving powers. I don't hate driving per say, but it does get boring when you're making your same commute in the morning and stuff like that. If I could watch TV, game, or even just sleep for that hour to and from work instead of driving, I would jump on that in a heartbeat.
The problem with not owning your own car is supply. If you live carless now and take cabs when needed and walk otherwise, you know how hard it can be to get a cab if everyone else wants one at the same time (Like if you stop to buy groceries after work when it's raining and you're waiting an hour while your ice cream melts) Private driverless cabs will be supplied for the average demand, not the peak demand at 2am New Years Day. So people will still want to control their transportation if they can afford it.
Also think about what's going to happen to insurance companies and the legal system..
While cars are deadly, the transition gave us a vast improvement over the death rate from what came before: horses.
Would insurance go up, or down?
I am very excited about this because Americans have to get out of their giant super powered vehicles. It's not cool anymore to be burning 10 times more fuel than you need to to haul yourself around. I stopped driving about 15 years ago. I would get back in a car if it were small, light, efficient, and drove itself.
Just go find an 88-91 honda crx HF. It's small, cheap, light, super reliable, super car handling at anything under 80 mph, and gets 45 mpg. The best short distance car ever built. AND IT WAS DESIGNED OVER 25 YEARS AGO!
Thanks for the tip. Sounds like a great car, but what this video is talking about are personal transport vehicles that will make 45 miles to the gallon look ridiculously inefficient. This type of car will quickly move away from the combustion engine, and hopefully our power grid will be largely shifted toward zero emission energy sources.
SlumberMachine oh yea it got everything, wait it does not drive itself that he was asking for.
hmm
Assuming the tech finally functions as is promised (big assumption maybe but..) I agree when he suggests the best model for how this tech may be implemented is 'as a taxi' as 'it wouldn't even park it all it would just go and pick up the next person it has to pick up.'
Imagined thus as a massive coordinated on the road flow 24 hour Taxi fleet it would remove the need for cities to have huge parking facilities, and I believe will remove much of the desire for personal ownership of vehicles. This is especially important for cities with dense populations and car use such as L.A which he cites but all planners will surely adapt and make best use (as they see it) of the potential benefits (economic and one would hope civic) of the freed estate in this model.
Once a critical mass of these vehicles is established pick up times will decrease to negligible amounts. Of course as taxis they could be prebooked well in advance but for spontaneous journeys If all you have to do is type a code into your phone and 3 mins later a taxi is waiting it's equivalent in time to getting your car out of your garage, which can now be converted into that games room you've always wanted..
Congestion would be reduced by centrally coordinated gps monitoring of flows. Even giving options to the user to pay more or less for certain routes or access to fast lanes in motorway etc to regulate travel congestion further, which could be easily amended in transit as per the changing desires of the passenger regarding ETA and updates to the levels of congestion etc
We have buses, and taxis already. In Los Angeles people don't use them. Why is this any different?
AI in general scares people, but this is one of the most positive uses of AI I can imagine.
Getting rid of parking lots?
Where are you going to store all the cars that are not in use?
As you said the small self driving cars will replace busses, so that means 20 to 40 vehicles will replace one bus. I think that will take up even more space.
They might go to a warehouse of some sort by themselves to charge or go back to your home and then will come to pick you up if you call it.
Wont the warehouse still be a parking lot with that concept, and that would require even more room then the conventional parking lots around the roads.
As suggested though in my estimation not emphasized enough If they are run as a fleet of taxis24/7 they need never park other than to pick up passengers or for refueling maintenance purposes. I see no reason for not having driverless buses/coaches with some proviso for security where further congestion is to be avoided. Personal car ownership may become superfluous under these conditions.
I would estimate that near 50% of them will not be used at night. And if you think about it, the wait time to get one at your door if it is "as a taxi" would be too long to compete with the convenience of a personal vehicle, unless there are seriously a lot of them. And that requires storing them close by. You cant seriously think that humans are so well organised that the cars wont have any time to be stored/unused.
Rain Master most cars will be tiny compared to today's cars. First remember that.
Second, they can just drive to the outskirts of town(where land is cheap) to a warehouse specially designed for these small cars.
As demand rises/is predicted to rise, cars will be launched from the warehouses as needed to fit demand.
My prediction is that Tesla will become the first autonomous electric taxi service kind of like Urber, Lyft and Zipcar.
I don't think it will spread like wild fire. I like the whole concept but I am just not willing to give up the control. I like driving. I like the feel of the road and I don't want some computer taking that away from me. I don't believe I am the only one. On a side note I think it would be excellent for some industry's like shipping and transportation.
The thing that still scares me is the fact that computers can and do malfunction. Just yesterday, my computer keyboard went insane. The hyphen, the p, and the volume were all stuck somehow. I had to get a friend to help me put some code into the terminal and completely disable the keyboard (I'm using a wireless one right now). What if that happens to my car while I'm on the freeway? I would really like pedals and a steering wheel so that just in case something goes wrong, I don't have to just sit back and die.
i can imagine random people hitching a ride with an autonomous car driving to its owners pickup location.
GM had the opportunity to survive in the '90s with the EV-1. They could've been world leaders today. (opinion)
Very exciting. Tho the economic effects are very hard to predict. Delivery jobs will disappear.
There will be competition for 'Johnny Cabs'. :)
I'd like to see how the payments will be worked out. Will there be discounts for paying for every weekday of a month in advance? Will a business pay the fare of their clients (ie "We're BabiesRUs, bring mothers to us and pay 10% of their fare here")? Could I get a discount by agreeing to be the hands necessary to pump fuel into the car? Could I get a discount if I agree to ride with strangers on a large vehicle over long distances? (Anything's better than paying car repair bills, insurance, and car payments)
Good upload.
Some of us have kids, and most of our trips include them- it would be nice if people who talk about the future of transportation acknowledge that. Until we can decant our children and raise them in creches we do need to remember them in our planning.
Im just happy to finally have the option to go drinking and not have to cough out extra for expensive taxi's just to make my way home.
This video is mostly based on the premise that the car can "come to you" however, the reality is that the person has to be in the car when it is driving so that the person can be held liable when the car runs someone over
Couldn't this still result in more vehicles on the road and a movement away from mass transit?
7:45 Elon Musk has delivered
Why is everyone betting that Moore's Law will continue? I say it's because the alternative is quite bleak. And no other good reason.
"Hello and Welcome to JohnnyCab"
this guy seems very smart
so along with maps and payphones kids born in the 2010's won't know what a taxi and traffic jams are either.
I like the idea of being able to put a car on autopilot on the road, but I would still like it to have back up controls I don't understand why you wouldn't want that in a autonomous vehicle. Personally I wouldn't even want by a car without them. That just sounds like a recipe for disaster and with all these defective vehicles coming out these days, I can see it as being only a matter of time until someone has an accident on these things.
People want to own things, they don't want to order the car to come to them like that, what if the last person who used it left their old McDonalds in there, or tissues, and the seat adjustments? People want a customized car for them. If a family has two cars, like it normally does in north america, they would get one off roader for example and one sedan, and have the car drop someone off and pick up the next person, and have the right one of their cars do the thing for them, not order some public car.
Plot twist: He is describing the movie Wall-E.
I'm not remotely excited for this... but then I'm a minority in being a driving enthusiast. For most people cars are nothing more than a tool to get from one point to another, which is fine, but as somebody who just loves driving I dread a time when automated cars might become mandatory.
People are still allowed to ride horses. I'm sure you'll be allowed to drive. Maybe on a race track.
Just play a nice driving simulator, while the car drives you safely from A to B.
I imagine you will still be able to drive. If they ever ban human driven cars (unlilely in my opinion) I don't think anyone alive today would still be young enough to drive. Plus, it just means it is safer, and fewer idiots will be driving. That should be a great thing for driving enthusiasts.
sooo excited!
Let's just hope these "driverless cars" are also "insuranceless" since the "driver" no longer bears responsibility.
Hahaha sorry I forgot, this is "BigThink" not "BigHope".
I will put my trust in the humans who programmed the algorithms that control the cars. I'd rather read, watch something, or eat in the back seat while someone or something drives me around. Bring on the autonomous cars. I welcome them.
That short debate in my head about whether I should leave now or watch the last ten minutes of my Netflix movie will be a thing of the past, lol
Finally! Someone who's for them. I wish they were here now.
John Peltrau
They are already proven safer in case of Google's cars than human driven cars.
I think you are dreaming if you think the parking lots are going to turn into parks.
I don't drive... Never have!
Once we have robots doing cheap domestic deliveries and collections, it will become much easier and cheaper to rent all kinds of rarely used items. So it wont just be cars that we no longer need to own.
To increase adoption maybe we can mandate that drinking establishments have to maintain a government subsidized fleet of autonomous vehicles.
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well this will get rid of the truckers.
Are they a threat?
Asan Reso Not unless you're exposed at a rest stop.
So, I've been watching this issue in last few weeks in both interest and fear after hearing Elon Musk saying that the conventional car/ driver combo may be banned. I am very much a car enthusiast and love driving and working on my car. I also doubt I will ever willingly let that car go or let that part of my life slip, its been a major part of my life sense I was kid and even was the main contributor to the degree I took in college and the job I sought directly after graduating. I am also currently in my early-mid 20's so I will see this in my life time and have to deal with the consequences. So I guess what I'm saying is whats supposed to happen to me?
This being said I'm not against the technology and it does sound convenient for my once a month 5 hour drive home, sleeping on the way to work, and drinking on the weekends without ever needing to drive myself. I just don't ever want to see a time where someone tells me I can't drive, and I can't share that art of my life with my kids / grand kids when that day comes. Even if they do I will probably just pull a rush red barchetta and ignore them regularly.
So opinions on this? Especially considering more than likely all the tech will already be in place to facilitate both driver and driver-less, made during the transition time.
Can I have my autonomous car please?
He totally lost me when he said Detroit will have a big challenge ahead of it.
Does he know ANYTHING about Detroit and the state it's in now?
7:43 HAHAHA
Wall-E
the car internet!
Thank God now when I pull out of McDonalds I can take out the burger and devour it even before I get home!! When will a robot come out that wipes my ass?
Its good to have car driven by a computer, but what about hacker ? will they hack car ?
that oil argument is pretty weak. while we may not be going to war for oil. Batteries are made of rare earth metals. So we would just go to war for those...
I am generally conflicted about autonomous cars. On the one hand it would very likely to reduce car accidents significantly and we could be productive on our commute. So those are great. On the other hand, I sometime enjoy driving and the danger of getting your car hacked is a scary factor as well and depending on some nerd programming skills with my life also a difficult thing to overcome.
But I think its coming and there is nothing we can do about it.
I'd never get in a cab that's driven by a computer.
The human brain is 100 000 times worse than a computer when it comes to providing consistent concentrated effort, focus, attention span, it makes poor judgement based on emotions, gets easily distracted etc. So.. It's your loss.
***** I never said anything about it's complexity? I'm saying that a machine/computer would be better at performing a specific task without any errors, in this case driving a cab, then humans are. You can verify this if you look at any racing video game, even the best players crash or lose focus after some time, while the AI opponents can drive flawlessly. The same principle can be applied on the real roads.
So a cab driven by a computer would be a lot safer than a cab driven by a human.
No I'm not old. Afraid of technology? Um yeah for one it aids in further centralizing control and human domestication. 2 job will be lost. Etc 3 I don't trust computers enough to drive me.
Wouldn't smell right.
He addresses this in the video: Would you rather get hit by a drunk driver or a machine error? [Wish we could prevent ANY disaster, but we're trading out for a lesser evil]
Your car thought you would also like to go here,here and here
I will never buy an autonomous car. Its not that i dont trust computers but driving is too much fun. I wont even buy an automatic anymore because manual is more fun.
Will your taxi car recognize who you are, put the child safety lock on, and drive you to the police station if you have warrants out for your arrest?
sounds like wally, no one is going to walk anymore :(
I wonder who broke the white bearded guys nose.
I hate it when you say something under your breath. Which is about half the time.
Givit!
Coming to Africa in 2200.
You're a dreamer, but ahh.. no thanks.
8 years later, nothing has become reality.
Then again, Brad Templeton is clearly someone too fat to fit behind a steering wheel, so that is why he is desperately trying to will AVs into existence.
Hackers?
Cool but they haven't thought about the thousands of jobs lost through developments like this
I hope we never stop innovation just to keep jobs that don't even provide a living wage...
It would be much better if we wouldn't need jobs to stay alive, I hope more gets automated, so we have more time to do the fun stuff.
Which jobs? Why don't they just get into programming the new system?
The Red Willow maybe but I'd imagine that not every cab driver or car salesmen could programme tech like this, not saying that it isn't a good point though
Ben Harrison Wouldn't it b great ifthey were trained to do so and gain a living wage? Granted, computer technology put TV Repairmen out of work, but created the tech industry....we could lose 100K jobs and gain 200K jobs...
Who is this guy, never heard of him. Not sure I want to either. But BigThink has delivered a consistently low quality of speakers for a while now, in my view. Like other so-called Internet Forum companies such as Fora.TV who make a business out of subjecting the public to their so-called panel of experts. Both Internet startups are heavily funded by venture Capitalists with strong links (if not investments) in mainstream media, which leads me to wonder if such companies would not deliberately reduce the quality of services they offer on one platform (the newer, less regulated one), in the hope that it will drive the market and their audience to more established mediums and networks where profit margins are higher.
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Did you even bother to look the guy up? If expect to now ever expert and specialist on a topic then you have already been domesticated be mainstream media.
no, wasn't interested, didn't approve of his approach at communication, struck me as subtly caustic, like squirting lemon juice to plot out the course of molluscs or bacterial cultures. Domestication? Is that a bad thing? Where would the snail be without its shell? But is it possible to build housing with less deception and delusion? Unless what we seek is shelter from the truth
Is this guy a socialist?