Just seen this on the BBC news site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28851996

Seems like the google driverless cars are designed to exceed the speed limit so as to keep up with traffic for safety. They are due to come to UK next year and I wonder what happens if it triggers a speed camera or is pulled by a police car, although more chance of seeing one of the google cars than a traffic police car these days!

The police cars will probably be driverless to.

Well. If its driverless, do you need a licence?

If you convert it to run on alcohol, will it get breathalysed

And can the sitting down non driving person get rat arsed?

or can you use the phone while not driving...

It could drive you home from the pub.

Epic.

Whomever controls the car. If you're in it and have the ability to tell teh car to speed or not it'll be your fault.

 

If it's a hire car like a driverless taxi it would be the owners fault no the passenger.

 

I guess even driverless cars will need to be occupied by someone over 16/18 who can hit an emergency stop button

I imagine not cheap to buy either

I imagine not cheap to buy either

 

Coming to an S Class soon no doubt.

WHY???

 

 

 

The debate now is whether to allow cars, like the prototype unveiled by Google in May,to abandon controls including a steering wheel and pedals and rely on the vehicle's computer.Or whether, instead, to allow the machine to drive, but insist a passenger be ready to wrest back control at a moment's notice.

 

Can someone please tell me the point if you have to keep a close eye on whats happening 

just in case you need to take over. You might as well just drive. Besides who is going to sit 

there being vigilant? People barely watch what they are doing now and that's when they actually

have to steer and manipulate controls. You will have people sitting there on their laptops

with their mind 10,000 miles away from whats going on around them. You will have people 

eating and drinking, you will have people chatting, dancing and larking about. 

It's a stupid stupid idea and tech for techs sake. You will never catch me in an automated

mobile coffin... Screw that!! 

Probably to try n cut down in human error.

But if your there being bored, having a brew n checking facebook, maybe even a quick kip 99% of the time, i dont think the driver will be much use

How many ecu errors / electronic failures with cars do you see nowadays already.

Imagine a computer driven car that blows a fuse or a sensor goes faulty.

You could easily run redundant circuits though, like a plane's auto-pilot, where there sanity check each other.

 

Would add to the cost, but I doubt it's cheap anyway!

Electrical fire taking the whole lot out.

Could happen

How many ecu errors / electronic failures with cars do you see nowadays already.

Imagine a computer driven car that blows a fuse or a sensor goes faulty.

Yup. They still malfunction.

Like mobile phones. They get better and better and more and more complicated, but they still freeze up and have glitches occassionally.

True. Guess the petrol would be my worry then though!

I wonder what happens if the ECU/DME burns? I assume the car just dies?