Driverless Car Drives 175 Miles on Busy Chinese Expressway, No GPS Necessary

Headline: "...became self-aware, experienced 'Road Rage' and then kills 3"

Seriously, this is the next gen tech that everyone has been waiting for. Keep it up! The Sci-Fi of the future is getting closer and closer!

they said they drive themselves not that they are smart cars that can learn smh lol and that car didnt crash somebody hit a driver less car from behind hence the human error, KNOW THE FACTS

I am sure there are some pretty bad drivers killing (murdering) people each day on the roads.

The problem I have with a computer is they stink also. Exactly who on this earth has any gizmo that works correctly. If my car drove as well as my computer does it would crash every ten miles.

I have worked with some life saving type of systems. They are quite complex and still subject to failures. We still have billion dollar planes crashing from software glitches and computer issues. Who is going to spend a few billion to put 32 hardened computers into a car? What exactly is the rule for redundant systems at 70MPH? 3 fold 8 fold? The systems I worked on for currency usually had 32 fold redundancy. I think my life is worth more than a few billion.

Erm...is the fact that there isn't a GPS on board really headline worthy? It sounds like it just drove in a straight line, no navigation required, so it wouldn't need GPS.

If it did have to navigate through streets, then that would be impressive, but I don't see the importance of the absence of a GPS on a motorway

@jefro

What of your gadgets don't work? Isn't there some good explanation as to why they fail? Just because you aren't familiar with how to properly care for and maintain your equipment doesn't make it faulty.

I really, really want to see this driverless car tech become mainstream soon. I don't care if they result in 5,000 deaths per year--that'll be a minor fraction of how many deaths are caused by drunk and sleepy drivers. We can get angry at the driverless systems if we want, but they will be an improvement over human drivers. And it will only get better over time. I certainly foresee an age where tens of death per year are considered tragic rather than merely a statistic.

***50 years in the future***

captainzimon: "back in my day driving was 100% manual! you could even switch gears with a manual transmission....you know that lever that was physically linked into the driving system? Now adays you kids dont even have the option to drive with your own hand eye cordination...we did it all using our own meaty peripherals and our wits. You know what its like to speed down the highway at over 100 km/h for potentially hours at a time? You loose your attention for even a second and you're done. It was a true hybrid of man and machine...neither could conquer the road without each other. Now all you have to do is think...the computer reads your mind and away you go. Take a nap. Watch the scenery. You're just along for the ride."

I think we just might loose one of the most fun things you can do with your pants on...

So...how about this. We have a bunch of cars here in America that can be drone-driven by outsourced Asian contract firms. The car has a camera in it and you speak to your driver and tell them where you want to go. Then the person in the third world country, presses a button like on star, the car starts and then the car is driven remotely. The passengers then just sit there. It's like a drone of sorts.

while I look forward to the full automation of the car, I think that one thing should never change: the drivers should be able to take control of the car themselves.

why learn from your own mistakes, when you could learn from the mistakes of others?

"just get in the back seat for the picture, and we'll say it drove itself"

Seriously though. Good bye professional truck drivers.

I'm not sure why I should be impressed or how this made news. There are already cars being tested that can drive themselves and the technology they're using seems flawed if not limited. Cameras and radar? Sounds more like another attempt by the Chinese government to impress it's own people. I hope it works out better then their high speed trains.

i want to integrate my body with machines.

You fools!! Don't you see? . . .

About 2 years ago China sent their first astronaut to space, the US carefully watch the events. Then not too long after an event shook the US Military to its core when China shut down its own satellite with a precision guided missile. That event precipitated the US army to engage in a tit-for-tat that made the US shoot its own satellite weeks later. Since then the US has flaunted unmanned drones and all kinds of unmanned vehicles at China, especially unmanned military vehicles, in a show of military superiority. Make no mistake, take a good look at the picture on this article (Remember DARPA's "Great Race"?) and you will see all the signs of an arms race of the 21st century - Drones, unmanned land vehicles, Military humanoid robots (see DARPA's "Petman" project as well as "Big Dog") and the race to control low earth orbit - The future of technology is bright, but trust me the human race is not out of the woods yet.

Leave it to the Chinese to take an unproven technology and put it on a busy highway. If something goes wrong - oh well, we've got a billion more to experiment on.

@Capt_Tight_Pants
... Google sent their driverless cars across the Golden Gate Bridge, which has an average of 118,000 cars cross it daily. They also had it drive around the streets of San Fran.

Leave it to the American idiots to slam the Chinese on something they'd already done a year beforehand.

With all the hacking going on with China, and talks about internet security and our infrastructure. This seems like an easy way to take out Americans?? Don’t get me wrong I love the idea of people no longer behind the wheel. No more drunk, sleep deprived, or multi-tasking drivers… My concern would be the day we have millions of driverless cars all over the country when suddenly they all get a virus that prompts them to go suicidal into surround vehicles, buildings, and people. Instantly millions of dead with only the click of a mouse. Scary when you think of it...

All I'm saying is no DUI :P ..
With all the positives and negatives combined; an option to have a car that drives itself when needed does not sound like a bad idea.

@joeyjam

LOLOL . . . .

Translation: "Idiots calling Idiots, Idiots."

. . . This could also describe our government.