David Roden: 'I'm also skeptical about the future of SDVs (self driving vehicles). I think that they'll eventually, maybe soon, take over in closed-circuit uses, but probably not on public roads. I think that they'll be pushed out for sale too soon, and the resulting spectacular and highly publicised fatal accidents will sour the public on them. We may also see legislation against them.
Limited features such as driver assistance - basic Tesla autopilot functionality, lane-holding features, collision avoidance, "smart" speed limiters - yes, absolutely. But full self driving - I don't think so, not on public roads, not in my lifetime. " I’m not so sure… Ultimately it all comes down to money and if, as I suspect is quite feasible, autonomous vehicles develop sufficiently to the point where they prevent ~90% of road traffic collisions (RTC), generally, then the savings in financial terms will, on its own, make autonomous vehicles happen, wether we like it or not. The costs I’m talking about are, for example, to insurance companies from prevented personal injuries, to national and local government and related agencies and authorities in dealing with the aftermath of collisions (both immediate and subsequent eg emergency services, court time, pathologists etc, etc) not to mention the huge and often completely overlooked costs of post-collision traffic congestion… the list goes on. Regards, Martin Winlow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20201201/9e5063be/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
