Nevada Approves Road Rules For Google's Driverless Cars

[CaseAgainstFaith]

State officials collaborated with Google, car manufacturers, insurance comapnies, and law enforcement is drawing up the rules.

"Nevada is the first state to embrace what is surely the future of automobiles. These regulations establish requirements companies must meet to test their vehicles on Nevada's public roadways as well as requirements for residents to legally operate them in the future," said DMV director Bruce Breslow.

The news comes after Google saying its cars have already been covered 160,000 miles on public roads without incident.

source - http://www.businessinsider.com/nevada-approves-road-rules-for-googles-driverless-cars-2012-2?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=10%20Things%20In%20Tech%20You%20Need%20To%20Know&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20%28sai%29%3A%2010%20Things%20You%20Need%20To%20Know%20This%20Morning

Always been my dream to let the car do the driving for me while I could play video games or watch tv while in the "drivers seat" Would make long car rides/vacations a joy for everyone.

[Yla]

*nerdgasm*

[Ranger_Joe]

All it takes is one hacker to fuck up EVERYTHING or one little glitch to cause an 8,000 car pile up..

[Stormwarden]

Well, then, there'd better be a manual override in those cars in case something like that does happen.

[Old Viking]

In Florida most of the cars are driverless now. 

[clockworkgirl21]

I could have used one of those cars in high school. Get an extra 10 minutes of sleep.

[Yaezakura]

I can certainly see these kinds of systems becoming standard. The improved efficiency of every car knowing exactly what every other car on the road will be doing will cut transit times and fuel costs substantially, not to mention drastically reduce accidents. Just imagine if every car in the country drove itself automatically based on the route-determining software of UPS? That one company saves millions of gallons a fuel every year. Extend that savings to every car around, and people get where they're going faster, cheaper, safer, and with far less environmental impact.

[Ranger_Joe]

I think the entire idea is terrible. People ::already:: have problems paying attention when they are driving. The last thing we need to do is have it so that the driver is just sitting there. In the event a problem arises, I don't really trust the reaction times of your average driver.

This just sounds like a bad idea to me, honestly.

[Yaezakura]

I think the entire idea is terrible. People ::already:: have problems paying attention when they are driving. The last thing we need to do is have it so that the driver is just sitting there. In the event a problem arises, I don't really trust the reaction times of your average driver.

This just sounds like a bad idea to me, honestly.

Baby steps. Systems like this are the future, and it has to start somewhere. And I think it's a good sign that the state government is working with so many different agencies to make sure the regulations on the cars are properly handled.

The big issue is, people aren't going to buy a product that regularly gets them straight up killed. If the cars don't prove safe enough, they simply won't sell even if they ARE approved.

[VirtualStranger]

All it takes is one hacker to fuck up EVERYTHING or one little glitch to cause an 8,000 car pile up..

Hacker? Why would a car be connected to an external network in the first place? Hacking a car without direct access to its internals would be about as feasible as hacking your neighbor's toaster.

Computer networks don't work that way.