You have a great point. Tesla already has a research division that wants to do
exactly what you’re saying and Uber now is one of the largest investors in self
driving cars. You could buy your train ticket on the phone, summon a ride that
could sync up with the train schedule to bring you the rest of the way and have
the whole thing work on your phone.
Another application are super efficient high speed freeways. You could
reserve lanes or have entire roads that do not allow human drivers. The
computers could accelerate the cars to 100 even 200 + MPH, have them operate
with in 6 inches of each other to optimize drag and auto drive you rapidly
around your region. Not only do they plan to have the cars talk to each other
so such a thing could be coordinated but inputs are available for a centralized
control operation so some combination could allow you to slip in to a slot on a
freeway near your town and say drive from New York to DC in an hour and a half
(probably not needed do to mass transit) but more likely might be Still Water
Oklahoma to Amarillo in 2 hours where population density doesn’t support public
transit.
Combine this with the Hyper Loop project and technologies like that
making train like travel possible at over 750 MPH well it would be like Buck
Rogers. I never thought I would see things like this in my life time let alone
the next decade.
> On Sep 21, 2015, at 3:07 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Who says you need to own the thing yourself? If you could summon one in 10
> minutes at will using an app from a fleet stored somewhere close by, wouldn't
> that suffice? Most cars sit most of the time so they should be a shared
> resource. The trouble is usually the last mile getting a taxi to your door or
> getting to the nearest bus/metro stop. A self driving car could eliminate
> that incentive for people keeping (one or more) vehicles parked at their
> house. Of course Apple would have to include the iClean service which makes
> sure any mess left by the previous passenger was taken care of.
>
> CB
>
> On 9/21/15 9:03 AM, Scott Granados wrote:
>> Dona, the bigger question is can we afford not to have it? Even if it’s
>> 100K the point is you’ll work it out. Whether it’s interest free loans for
>> the blind or regular interest loans from the auto market you’ll make it
>> work. Costs will be high at first but they will drop and they will drop
>> quickly because these aren’t devices for just the blind, it’s for everyone
>> so the mass market and mass production economies of scale come in to play.
>> Even if it’s 100K though I for one would save up and finance what I couldn’t
>> cover.
>>
>>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 1:56 PM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> then the question will be can any of us afford it. :)
>>> Cheers,
>>> Donna
>>>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Pete Nalda <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> With the success Google is having, it won't be long until we see one from
>>>> Apple. Google's testing here in Austin without incident.
>>>>
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>>>>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dona, has anyone described to you what this prototype car looks like?
>>>>> There were some photos leaked a while back, who knows since they are
>>>>> rumors but they basically had a pod that had 4 wheels (it’s not a 3
>>>>> wheeler like some models) and it had no (0) windows. Think about that
>>>>> for a minute. What it did have were screens and cameras and a ton of
>>>>> autonomous driving features.
>>>>> You’d also be interested in what Google is doing. They have already had
>>>>> blind folks operating their autonomous vehicles for a while now. I
>>>>> believe that one of the engineers on the project is blind but I haven’t
>>>>> been able to come up with a name. I saw a special on CNBC about a year
>>>>> ago and can’t recall the gentleman’s name they had who was using the car
>>>>> to get to and from work and to the store etc. It would drop him off in
>>>>> front of the grocery store door, he’d do his thing and come out and hit a
>>>>> key fob that would summon the car that had parked it self and it pulled
>>>>> up and picked him up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Never thought I’d see it in my lifetime, shocks me how far along they
>>>>> actually are. Google has made massive steps forward in machine vision.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just saw this on MacRumors and thought you guys would be interested if
>>>>>> you haven't seen it. I sooooooooooo want to be a test driver!
>>>>>> http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/18/apple-met-california-dmv-autonomous-vehicle/?utm_source=osx&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=front
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Donna
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