Comment preview: Except you can't commercialize them without first fixing these problems. Nobody's going to think about buying a self-driving car that works "most" of the time It's not like buying a game and waiting for the first patch to fix the bugs Edit: if the car need ....

Comment preview: Google has a fleet of over 60 self driving cars that have been driving around California for several years. I recommend this article [Inside Google's Quest To Popularize Self-Driving Cars](http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2013-09/google-self-driving-car) ....

Comment preview: No, no one will force you to use a self driving car. But, as the percentage of self driving cars versus 'old type cars' increases, slow changes will begin to tip the scale to self driving cars. Want to drive your own car? No problem, but your insurance wi ....

Comment preview: Definitely there is no right in the constitution that guarantees a right be allowed to drive your own car. But don't discount the liberty that cars provide. If I so choose, I could get in my car right now, and be 1k miles away in 24 hours. I don't need to ....

Comment preview: As you pointed out, self-driving cars are safer. [Safer than even you.](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520746/data-shows-googles-robot-cars-are-smoother-safer-drivers-than-you-or-i/) And in case the software shuts down or something, there is still th ....

Comment preview: It's because it can't predict what other drivers will do. Car companies are working on ways for cars to talk to each other. In theory if everyone had a self driving car and they all talked to each other you could coordinate things like acceleration. Ima ....

Comment preview: While having similar effects, the mechanics of that self-driving car and the self-driving cars of today are fundamentally different. That one is using satellite navigation with zero situational awareness, while current self-driving technology is based *ent ....

Comment preview: I think it depends on how you classify 'outlawed.' Is it outlawed to drive a horse and buggy? no. Is it outlawed to drive a horse and buggy on the freeway? Yes. As self-driving cars start taking over, our roadways, signage, and laws will change to reflect ....

Comment preview: So if google is to be believed none of these accidents were caused by the self driving car itself, all by the human driver in the google car or other drivers. Yet the number of accidents that google self driving cars have been reported to be involved in v ....

Comment preview: I can't find the link now, but a few months ago I watched a video put together by a major car manufacturer about how self driving cars will work in the near future. Instead of it taking you all the way from A to B, you will drive a certain part of the rout ....

Comment preview: [This reminds me of an interesting article I read about self-driving cars the other day.](http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/) Essentially, since a self-driving car will inevitably be put in a situa ....

Comment preview: As someone who is somewhat a transportation expert, the idea of the Apple Car disrupting public transit in major cities is ludicrous. Public transit as we know it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Why? Cars are a horrible inefficient method of moving peop ....

Comment preview: When self-driving cars become the norm, I imagine that they will function more as cabs than personal vehicles. So, in your example, a car would pull up to your house in MA at a predetermined departure time, drive as far as it can on a single charge, then p ....

Comment preview: It seems like every time a driving thread appears on Reddit, I see people from large cities talking about how a space ahead of you (proper following distance) quickly gets filled by drivers who do not care about proper following distance. Wouldn't this mea ....

Comment preview: You have to be very careful when you look at the results of a poll. Not because of people's opinions, but because of the question. The poll question was: > In the future, self-driving autonomous cars could be safer than cars primary driven by a human. W ....

Comment preview: Driving a car will become like horse back riding; a hobby. You will not be allowed to drive on roads with automated cars because they will drive much faster and tighter than you can handle. The first thing you'll see are dedicated lanes to self driving car ....

Comment preview: Even more exciting- consider uber or something like it, in the near future accepts bitcoin (or something like it), and they allow owners to register their self driving cars they own that will automatically drive people around, get their own gas (at full se ....

Comment preview: Oh man the self driving cars thing is just sickening. For starters, that technology is *way* further off than a lot of people realize. Everyone's just jerking themselves off while imagining that conventionally controlled cars are going to be illegal by lik ....

Comment preview: Traditional cars will never be fully replaced by self-driving cars, but then again, people still knit scarves by hand and grow vegetables in their backyard. The slow rate of implementation of hybrid and electric vehicles isn't really a great analogy- in te ....

Comment preview: > But mathematically as long as it does not reduce the odds of collision to 0 insurance companies don't have much to worry about. If self-driving cars live up to what I think they will, this is going to destroy the auto liability portion of the insuranc ....

Comment preview: I have read that the issue of this has already been determined through precedent. In short the blame decision tree is as follows: If the self driving car has an accident, but the evidence shows it was environmental in nature, IE: something outside the scop ....

Comment preview: I hate these click-bait titles (I understand this is word-for-word the title of the article). The actual quote: My *guess* for when we will have full autonomy is approximately three years. He's not saying confidently "Tesla will release a fully self drivin ....

Comment preview: Personally I can't wait for self driving cars, and I'm the kind of driver that drives as fast as he can all the time. I even have a sport bike that I take to the racetrack as often as possible. I love driving. A LOT of people are going to bitch and complai ....

Comment preview: A big part of our culture is based on our responses to freak accidents that are nearly impossible to predict (JFK shooting, 9/11, etc.), so it's hard to say anything definitive about politics/culture 50 years into the future. However, it's easier predict t ....

Comment preview: Holy crap. That's a beauty of a comment! I actually see people being banned from driving pretty quickly on most roads at most times. If there is a computer system that eliminates human error, over 90% of deaths from accidents could be eliminated. That's mo ....