Robot cars.

I worked on a project of robot cars for awhile. My concern was that it was a solution looking for a problem. Unlike the Google car, however, this was one that only would work on certain designated freeway lanes (required cooperative infrastructure), and a driver could only use that lane by invoking autopilot. How many drivers would rather let a robotic system drive their car than driving it themselves? Is there really a demand for robotic cars?

Don Stauffer wrote in news:4cb314a9$0$48221$ snipped-for-privacy@news.qwest.net:

Well BMW sure thinks so for one. They've built a completely autonomous M5. Demand is perhaps the wrong question, It might come down to a with for a legislative way to reduce highway accidents. At least to start.

Those people who are driving and at the same time, texting, talking on cellphones, using a laptop computer, reading a paper, a book, putting on their makeup, any number of things they should NOT be doing while driving.They would buy those robot cars. cuhulin

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net:

I doubt it very much. It takes away their "freedom". They'd be the last to buy one IMHO.

I'm thinking it would be kinda handy to send the dog for a 6 pack of beer with something like this.

FatterDumber& Happier Moe wrote in news:4cb382dd$0$14786$ snipped-for-privacy@news.suddenlink.net:

Yeah, but how do you get the dog back *in* after he gets to the beer store? Only a human can get a dog in a car. Anything will get him out.

A convertible with the top down, or a car with an open sunroof, for those doggy runs to the beer store. cuhulin

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net:

And an automatically deployed cat tied to a seat to act as a dog retrieval device perhaps?