Great, so now I'm expected to work on my commute? Screw that.

Plus, as soon as any portion of the drive is manual, it may as well all be.

I know right?! I was wondering if it had audio alerts, as all id be doing is sleeping.

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Come on, nobody's going to be working - they'll be playing holographic Candy Crush. Also, I for one would be happy with just the long motorway segments being automated.

I suppose it depends on how/where you drive. My driving is split between commuting to work (~30-40mins) and long journeys (2-5 hours).

My main use case for a self-driving car is bringing me home from the pub. Not because I'm wasted, I simply don't drive after more than 1 or 2 beers.

When I'm going on a long trip, it's usually around the south island and I love driving those trips.

I like my car to be an escape from everything so I can clear my head.

Philip also needs to loosen up those arms

I don't know how common knowledge this is, but that's actually not future technology; it's already available now. For example, the Mercedes S550 (2014 and newer) performs fully-automated driving like that:

This is what I imagine the future of transport will be like - I get in my electric vehicle in the morning, and sit down as it takes off toward the destination I want to go. I spend the ride checking email, listening to music, or just relaxing, as the correct route is dynamically updated to avoid construction, traffic jams, etc. At the end of the journey that's cost me very little, gotten me safely to my destination, and had minimal environmental impact, my vehicle moves on to pick up other passengers BECAUSE IT'S A GODDAMN BUS AND BUSES HAVE ALWAYS WORKED LIKE THIS.

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Ha, very true. But I think people love to have their little personal bubble privacy. That's pretty much the only thing I like about cars actually.

Will it dark-tint the windows in automated-mode?

If so, we know what kind of "relax and watch a few online videos" Philip will be doing!

Can I drive the car and have the computer do my work for me instead?

Except a bus doesn't go where you want to go, it goes where it wants to go and you have to hope where it wants to go is somewhere near where you want to go.

And that's if the damn thing wants to go somewhere near to where you live so you can hitch a ride with it in the first place.

And all this at times that it chooses. Yeah, not much like a self-driving car. :-D

Ten percent Devil's advocate here and ninety percent real: I'd be interested in the opposite of this. Driving in town (especially here in Thailand where drivers are completely insane, but really anywhere) annoys me / raises my blood pressure. But highway roadtrips are actually rather fun, nice scenery and fun roads. So a whole lot of the time, if I had to choose one or the other, I'd take the highway bits and let the auto-drive handle traffic and stop lights.

The progress shown here is impressive, but overall I think that things will only get really useful when the car can handle as much (or as little) of the drive as you want it to, all the way on up to driving 100% of the way from driveway to parking at the destination.

Did a few of miss the part where you can select the parts that are automated and manual?

You're asking for situations where you can choose and the video shows that almost as the first feature. It's there people

Personally for me, it makes sense to have it be 100% automated by default, place your hands on those bits for 3seconds to enter manual. Release both hands, reverts back to automatic.

The 3 seconds is more of a human thing, I'm sure the the car never actually stops any of its automatic calculations, it simply turns on/off if you can control steering and acceleration.

Presto, enjoy driving however you want and not driving whenever you want.

I'm still a firm of advocate of 100% forced automation, sorry, humans are just far too incapable to be driving death machines. I'm sorry if you enjoy it, we'll just create little "driving vacation spots" and we can all move on? After all, you're probably not getting nostalgic about your commutes to work.

But it'll take a while yet for the automation to be able to handle 100% of driving. In the mean time, this sort of dual mode looks pretty great to me.

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Ha. Thank goodness for tinted windows.

Phillip has taken to smoking crack with his commuting pals from work during his automated segments.

Fuck you, Philip. In the future you are DONE. I'm going rogue and joining the raiders. While you're checking your email to see if there's an ineffective faggot that'll blow you while your wife is auto-driving in her black cock mobile, I'll be riding alongside of you on a jet propelled tricycle with a carboard cut out of a society car, just like yours.

Except it's not, Philip. It's NOT just like yours, Philip. It's really a cyberpunk barbarian motorized tricycle with a series of harpoons and tazers that I send flying at your smart car, connected to barbed wire and chains, that I use to ensnare my prize. And you, Philip. You're my bitch. My little Tatum.

Show the people what happens to future idiots who forget how to drive. That's right, their wife doesn't care because she's already taken care of and your ass is probably used on a constant basis by dirty disease ridden scavs. After the raiders have had the ol ultra violence on ya, real savage like.