CES 2013: Audi Demonstrates Its Self-Driving Car

Why the parenthesis in "know"? The car computer knows where it is and acts accordingly, just like your brain, but using different sensors and algorithms to get the same result, avoid obstacles and get to the destination.

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agreed. even though you wont consider a car(synthetic tech) as a person, those are the same basics that our brain uses

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"for example, taking over when he or she wanted to drive"

That's just dumb, why would anyone choose to drive when they want to when the car can already do it????

@solarflare, haven't you seen iRobot? What happens when the robots start taking over and you need to drive yourself?

All kiding aside, many people play golf, watch football, hunt, fish as hobbies... I personally have one true passion and that is driving, still having the control to drive would be extremely important to me, and I am a little biased as, been a loyal fan/owner/enthusiast of Audi for the better part of a decade.

@solarflare bad road conditions, bad weather conditions, the gps location if off(recently google maps has taken me to the wrong location 3 times) etc.

@PSYC0TIC ONE Audi4life yo

I would be really intersted to know if they have even begun to tackle weather issues that may interfere with optical sensors, such as laser or camera's.

I live in Toronto, Canada and quite often headlights, grill, and most other places where optical sensors would be mounted will be covered in snow and ice. I wonder if they have even begun to tackle this problem, and or how the vehicle would respond to losing sensors once the vehicle has already taken over. Would it simply warn you and expect you to take control? What if your sound asleep? Would the vehicle just stop? Or perhaps it would be programmed to pull over as soon as it's safe to do so?

Not to mention our roads are horrible during snow fall! Most painted dividing lines on the road are non existent, and cannot be seen at all. In these cases during wicked snow, our motorists have become accustomed to turning double lane's into one, and sticking close to the shoulder to guage distance from oncoming traffic. Would a driverless vehicle do this? How about during wicked rain fall where glare, faded painted road lines are barely visible? Or, what about situations where painted road lines have been painted over with black paint when a road way is expanded or reduced and new lines are painted. In heavy rainfall conditions that black dividing line no longer blends with the black ashphalt, it now shines with the slick rain and road glare and becomes a very noticeable line which is very easy to confuse with other faded road lines.

If you havent driven on our road way's, you will notice immediately that we do not have "raised" reflective road dividers as these would be torn to shreds by snow plows. So we often learn to cope with horribly faded painted road dividers. Food for thought!

The way i see it, there is still a very long way to go yet before a vehicle can become completely "self driving". I bet you so far these vehicles are being tested in "ideal" conditions where these weather hazards do not exist.

Now we can safely text and drive. or better, surf the net, check facebook, watch netflix, check stock market and all the good stuff...
too bad you can't tint the windshields +:O

I like driving. What I really want is to have high speed hand gloves and shoes with wheels that let me go 80mph or better; perhaps side mounted wings to my body too!

Weeeee!

What we're really headed towards is a future where people never really learn to drive and completely rely on technology to do it for them. You think there are mindless idiots on the road today? Just you wait when they don't even get in that practice, and one day have to drive for themselves when the tech breaks down! Same thing goes for park assist vehicles, this technology is really just enabling the horrendous drivers who never really learned to parallel park on their own to go on blissfully ignorant until one day they find themselves having to do it themselves!

Also, I wonder if anyone has taken a look at the legal remifacations that would come from the first auto death where the vehicle was deemed to be at fault. Would the manufacturer be at fault in that case? Would we have to sign some sort of legal disclaimer waiving the right to sue in the event of any bodily injury or death as a result of this technology when we purchase and or before stepping into one of these vehicles?

Meatman, it seems that manufacturers are going to take over the liability. And they'll be happy to, because the pool of liability will be so much smaller — I wrote a story about it a year or so ago:

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2012-04/who-blame-when-robotic-car-crashes

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