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If the software is buggy enough, our descendants would eventually not even think of something like that anymore.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Hey! If they make the software really buggy (ouch! Was that a deliberate pun?) the car would behave as if it was being driven by a typical South East Asian driver.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I would roll up on ya with blackened windows, roll down the back window with shades on and ask.
Excuse me, but do you have any gray poop on? 
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I can/could work well when self-driving on a well paved and maintained road in the middle of nowhere, but as soon as you start adding external variables, the risk increase at an alarming rates.
imagine driving around Boston (or Montréal) in winter; the poor car will commit self-formatting.
I'd rather be phishing!
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one big problem of mankind gets solved. 
PS: Dont drink and drive. It is dangerous. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Software not by uSoft. Would give give BSOD new meaning
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Nor by that Canadian company that made the Obamacare signup stuff: they'd never test to see if it works in traffic (or trips greater than ca. 100m).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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how, when I used a GPS, it took me long way almost always and to the wrong location frequently. How does that work out when the self driving cars insists you're at your location when it's nowhere in sight?
Wait - The Solution is at Hand!
We just need a prefix: Passengerless Self Driving Cars.
There. Everyone's problem's solved!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Not until you add miniaturization.
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You select your destination => a car is assigned => you get in and it goes.
No buttons inside for the floors => just emergencies.
As of now, and it's been a few years => I still don't like it. (I have stopped clawing at the wall-plate, leaving bloody streaks trying to get out like a caged animal panic).
Pretty much I assume the hardware will more or less obey the software and I know how that will end up (especially if Agile development was used).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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There's one big difference: no other elevator is sharing the road with yours. 
/ravi
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That system ensures only one car occupies a position in a track at any time. Unfortunately this isn't (yet!) true for conventional vehicles and roads today.
/ravi
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Xaotiq wrote: I was just pointing out that elevators have gone to the next level and are no longer as simple as you suggested
You're right. (Nice pun, BTW!)
Xaotiq wrote: Well that sort of is the point of the software right?
Not only the software. The hardware and software of the advanced elevator you linked to were developed in tandem. In the case of self-driven vehicles, they have to contend with existing roads and other drivers. I would trust your elevator, but not a self-driving car - at least not yet.
/ravi
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PMSL! It will be a few years before they (self-driving cars) can handle that! Not until everything is self-driving ... they'll have no chance contending with the newly-imported taxi drivers (by which I mean the ones who seem to forget we drive on the left every time they go across the d**n thing.
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As a developer I would try it as I am interested in how it works and how the system would behave.
But I wouldn't want self-driving cars to be sold commercially. Maybe only to people that would really need them - like someone who needs aid driving a car or someone who has made an infraction that would warrant this(drunk driving comes to mind).
This has the potential to go wrong, as the companies can get more control over the user of the car. Maybe I'm paranoid but with all the NSA/Facebook information exchange and similar cases I don't want someone to be able to control my car that directly.
Edit: Not to mention potential "hackers" hijacking cars.
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RUs123 wrote: I don't want someone to be able to control my car that directly.
Which is why I will NEVER buy a GM car ever again.
The damn thing has OnStar built in - so thoroughly integrated that it can't really be removed. They can not only monitor your cars location but can slow it down, stop it, etc., as well. And, of course, the two-way voice communication: how does one know that no one is listening? (See SamSung smart TV issues if you think I'm just my usual paranoid self).
All this - and I never 'pushed the blue button' to enable the thing.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Wow, I didn't know that was already made. I mean it could prove very useful if someone steals your car or if you are in need of assistance and I generally see this as a good thing.
But seeing how many inventions we have misused, there will be a time when that technology will be used against us. Well I hope not - I do have some optimism, but the possibility is there.
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Except they won't take "NO" for an answer and have misused it already.
And if they lie about not continuing to misuse it - what will happen to them? A blister on their tongue?
Don't you see a real problem in them selling me a car and then not giving me ownership of it?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yes I agree with you actually. What I meant to emphasize with my previous comment is exactly that which you have written. If they lie about the misuse, nothing will happen. So it's easy to market something like that, you know for security, safety etc. and then use it for your own purposes.
Even though it would truly prove useful in a handful of extreme circumstances, mostly it opens a door for misuse and giving up freedom for safety may not be noticeable at first but it quickly leads to a very bad situation.
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Oh my god, we've had GM tomatoes, GM microbes, now GM f'ing cars.
Where will it end 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Unfortunately, unless you want to drive a classic car anyway, all the other auto makers are drinking the same koolaid and adding LTE modems and "value added" services on top of them similar to what OnStar's been doing for the last 20 years. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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