Self Driving Cars Are Getting Smarter has been added as a related post - related requested by ChaosEngine.

O RLY?

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Damn that's cool!

They should put they wireframe visualisation in all self-driving cars so passengers can watch it. That seems like something that will ease people's minds about "trusting computers" if they can constantly monitor what the car is "seeing" and "thinking".

This is just majorly annoying until every one has it.

No one is going to know you're driving at slow speeds because you have information on the lights, they're just gonna be pissed off, do dangerous overtaking etc, which in turns is gonna throw your cars calculations off no?

Even when we get self-driving cars, cars have relatively large life spans, it's going to take 50-60yrs from when they even become popular to out phase older models. It doesn't feel like something you can retrofit.

It's just depressing all-around, I'm so over crappy inefficient human drivers. We're all just ticking time bombs escaping death every time we drive, oh you sneezed, dead, oh you felt slightly depressed and let your concentration slip for a second, dead etc

Yes we get away with it the vast majority of the time but the times we don't is still far too high.

Frankly, this is a medium term problem. And drink driving too. In 15-20 years, we'll have self-driving cars (google, don't make me a liar) at which point, I will be able to go to the pub, get wasted and get driven home by my trusty auto-car.

And I will never again have to have another god awful conversation with a taxi driver. Bring it on...

Self-driving cars designed by Google will soon be a reality on the roads of Nevada.

State legislators have passed a bill that requires the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles to draw up rules for driver-less vehicles.

Assembly Bill No 511 paves the way for Google's automated Toyota Priuses and Audi TT to be operated legally in the Silver State.

Good one and this Sartre guy, I'm checking him out.

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Then this gets a * comedy tag.>> ^jan:

What happens if the driver of the truck goes off the road?

Then this gets a * comedy tag.>> ^jan:

What happens if the driver of the truck goes off the road?

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^ Computer vision is a fascinating area.

From a layman's perspective- the most exciting fruits of better computer vision for me are something like Google being able to index images and video based on their content and of course the self-driving car.

Thanks for your input rychan.