Quoted from vid1900:

The old men in this thread will remember a few decades ago when everyone was in a panic "What if the anti lock brakes fail????", "What if they suddenly all lock up all over the country at the same time????", "I can pump the brakes better than any computer can!!!!", "I want to control my recovery from a spin, not a computer!!!"
Nowadays nobody gives it a second thought. They don't even teach brake pumping in drivers ed.

Quoted from djd9617:

Ok just an anecdotal example, a couple years ago I had a faulty speed sensor in my front driver side tire trigger ABS, and the jeep just jerked me over into the oncoming lane. Luckily there were no cars in the lane at that moment. I immediately pulled over and popped out the fuse that powers ABS. I did reinsert it when roads got icy (and after getting a new speed sensor)

Quoted from xsvtoys:

I have thought about this a lot, and here is something that relates to it, somehow, I think. This is something I think about every time I hop in the car and go somewhere.
If you take a 200 foot view from above and analyze it, the current system simply should not work. It defies all logic that for the most part, yet it does work. Yes, every day all over the place there are mishaps, crashes, people hurt, people killed. But when you look at the total number of cars and the total miles being driven, for the most part it works. Every day you go out and go somewhere and come back unscathed, it worked.
But how it can possibly work gnaws at me every time I get in the car. Whenever I meet random people that are part of the overall general population, I always find that at least about a third of them, if not more, are marginally sane, if sane at all. After a few minutes of conversation, it becomes apparent that this person is existing in some other plane, where logic is right out the window. They seem completely oblivious and incoherent. Sometimes I wonder how on earth they can even exist in society, and have a means to support themselves, and be able to deal with all the trials of everyday life. Now, when you get in your car, you are surrounded by a random mix of all the people in the population. Some are truly out of it. Some no doubt are on drugs, alcohol, etc. A fair number are talking on their phones are texting. And here you are, especially on the freeway, going 60-80 miles an hour in a two ton projectile, and surrounded by dozens of others, and most of the time, the spacing between the cars is just a few feet, nowhere near enough to allow for a defensive maneuver if something goes wrong. I am amazed that it all goes along without constant crashing all over the place.
Somehow, apparently, peoples' brains get wired to be able to handle all of the inputs and outputs for driving a car at speed on a crowded road, and make the necessary adjustments, and be able to avoid problems most of the time. Its not trivial to do this, from a mechanistic point of view. But it works. For driverless to take over, the AI has to equal the processing power of the human brain. Maybe its doable some day?

Quoted from Yelobird:

Not to disagree but lamp posts and curbs are the simplest problem and one that in my opinion they have done spot on perfect. Its the Human variable that is unpredictable. Driver and pedestrian. Sadly Ford is a million miles from Tesla at this point.

Quoted from EJS:

I knew someone who used to do that as a side job. I recall you can sign up for as many or as little of routes as you want. I can't recall if it was hourly or based on quantity of content. I remember it was a lot of hard drive turn around where Google would mail him disk drives, then drive around recording on them, then mail them back. I'm sure since then everything can be uploaded to the cloud.

Quoted from jackd104:

One day (and not long from now) driverless cars will make split second decisions on who to kill in an imminent unavoidable accident. Using facial recognition, the lighting fast 5G wireless network, and machine learning, the car will identify all possible victims and select the one for death that is least valuable to society and then take the appropriate action, all within a fraction of a second. Enjoy the future everyone.

Quoted from jawjaw:

flying cars

Quoted from Atari_Daze:

How large of a business is automotive insurance? If driverless cars become a thing, wouldn't insurance rates drastically decrease? I'm not sure those big wig execs of Allstate, Farmers, Geico etc would like a pay cut, nor would their lobbyists'?

Quoted from vid1900:

Austin Russell (25 years old) became the world's youngest self-made billionaire yesterday
The college drop out's self driving car sensors are being slurped up by every major car manufacturer worldwide
https://nypost.com/2020/12/04/luminar-chief-austin-russell-25-is-billionaire-after-ipo/[quoted image]

Quoted from vid1900:

Sure, but then how will Skynet ever get created?