Driver-less Cars?????

[OttoVonBlotto]

I think it will be a free for all unless all the traffic is driverless, while you have both driven and driverless on the road at the same time the driverless vehicles will be carved up, pushed aside and cut up at every junction, in heavy and queuing traffic, driven cars will just pull out in front of driverless ones pushing in knowing the approaching car will automatically slow down for them.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Otto von Blotto

I think it will be a free for all unless all the traffic is driverless, while you have both driven and driverless on the road at the same time the driverless vehicles will be carved up, pushed aside and cut up at every junction, in heavy and queuing traffic, driven cars will just pull out in front of driverless ones pushing in knowing the approaching car will automatically slow down for them.

Except that the driverless car will film and register your actions and automatically report it to your insurance company. Maybe to the authorities as well.

[Zap]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Otto von Blotto

I think it will be a free for all unless all the traffic is driverless, while you have both driven and driverless on the road at the same time the driverless vehicles will be carved up, pushed aside and cut up at every junction, in heavy and queuing traffic, driven cars will just pull out in front of driverless ones pushing in knowing the approaching car will automatically slow down for them.

Except that the driverless car will film and register your actions and automatically report it to your insurance company. Maybe to the authorities as well.

Oh, those Black boxes!!

[CGGrognard]

How will driverless cars handle pot holes? In my home town, they will be lucky to make it a blocked before a pot hole takes the car out. Then again, its a rural area where farm machinery is often on the roads.

[Hotschi]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Except that the driverless car will film and register your actions and automatically report it to your insurance company. Maybe to the authorities as well.

...which is illegal in some countries - in both cases.

The biggest obstacle to driver-less cars is the law - just some examples;

1.) Driving-licence
2.) Accidents - who's responsible (as mentioned above)
3.) General Traffic Control. Imagine a policeman trying to stop a driver-less car because some light isn't running...

And another thing - how to interact with a driver-less car in a "not-so-clear" traffic situation?

Driver-less trains (as in Copenhagen for example) or trucks in a mine (which is private property, or company property or whatever, but it's not a public road) can't be compared or mixed with traffic on public places.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Hotschi

ORIGINAL: Orm

Except that the driverless car will film and register your actions and automatically report it to your insurance company. Maybe to the authorities as well.

...which is illegal in some countries - in both cases.

And in some countries you must have the camera in a normal car for insurance purposes.

Anyway. My point is that if there is a lot of driver less cars out in the traffic these laws will be put under pressure.

[Orm]

I've heard of a experiment with driver-less long-haul trucks on a public road.