Why should automated cars drive as fast as the ones we drive? Perhaps we should think different over this whole transition to driverless future.
I think the biggest thing in this is you can do all other things inside the vehicle while in transit. Eat, drink, SMS, update FB, Tweet, etc. All the same things people do for the 1st hour when they arrive to their workplace anyway. Car could be 15 ton slow vehicle with one feet thick steel around it. Super safe for the passengers. Automated vehicles take the slow lane while traditional vehicles participate to the fast 'n' furious road rage to which they are addicted to. The technology to observe surroundings and act on the feedback is getting there. It'll take still some time but not many years anymore. This is why I believe strongly the public transport will be converted to automated system. The incentive is also on the operation cost as more than 60% of the bus line operation cost is the driver. At least here in Northern Europe. When the bus is electric the operation cost of the line will drop. But not the driver salary. It may well be the driver is 90% of the operation expenses then. Same thing will happen to all the semi trucks. More load, less expenses but not just that fast. Back in 2002 Li-ion batteries were too expensive, dangerous and not even an alternative for SLA. Remember how we had all kind of hassle here in EVDL about them? Things change. -Jukka http://www.google.com/profiles/jarviju#about 2015-04-09 8:07 GMT+03:00 Lawrence Winiarski via EV <[email protected]>: > > I can't wait to share the road with self driving cars like this one... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DtdeOg3piY > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150409/fb3ac3e2/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150409/1433f0ad/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
