Re: Robocar--a decade away?

"Sea Wasp" <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Ken from Chicago wrote:
>> Hi, I'm Ken. I'm from Chicago. You may know me from such memes as
"Magic 
>> = science we don't understand yet" and "Experience has no relevance to 
>> accuracy (tho it does affect trustworthiness)" and, of course,
"Robocar", 
>> the robot car, the self-driving car, the automated automobile. I 
>> suggested robocars could be on the road in 20 years, back in 2005,
around 
>> 2025:
>
> Maybe. Though given current art (and I work in the area of smart
sensors, 
> autonomous systems, etc.), I really would have a hard time believing it.
>
> More im****tantly, it's not just the tech you need to consider. If I had 
> KITT itself today, I couldn't take him out on the road. Laws have to be 
> modified, and regulatory hurdles are sometimes almost as hard as the 
> entire tech development path.

Aside from the legal hurdles, they are likely to be reluctance by some 
people to choose em, but they are balanced out by early adopters.

> And if any of your robocar's needs include additions to infrastructure, 
> you can forget about it.

That's the point, that's what differentiates 21st century conceptions of 
robocars versus 20th century conceptions of "automated highways". The
latter 
requires infrastructure changes while the former simply modifies the cars.

-- Ken from Chicago