| > but there's just no way you can drive a car around private property or something without a license. Yup, sure can. Farmers have been doing this for decades. > HUDs are distracting and I would certainly be a worse driver personally if I had that in my car. It's all in the implementation; consider this one: If a car is detected that is at a radically different speed from me, a red box starts to flash around it. I would certainly end up being safer, since it would let me change lanes/slow down long before my eyes and brain could detect such a speed differential. Avoidance becomes a normal maneuver, instead of an emergency maneuver. > but if you have $50 billion to spend on the project, then no way should you not try to build a self-driving car with it. What if you can't build a self-driving car with $50 billion? With $1 trillion? Should you just walk away while dusting your hands and going "well, we tried"? Because that's where we are. The current efforts are still ongoing, and have been for decades. Few improvements from them are being distilled into consumer vehicles; we really need more. Make people safer now, instead of "5 years from now". |