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08-19-2016, 04:16 AM
Sorry, driverless cars are **t in your near future
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It’s time for some real talk about self-driving cars: they're **t coming around any time soon.*
You won’t find a bigger fan of the tech**logy than me. I love robots, auto**my and artificial intelligence. I can still remember visiting Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and standing a few feet away from the car that nearly won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004.*
SEE ALSO: Get out of the driver's seat, human (http://mashable.com/2015/03/24/driverless-cars-are-better-than-you/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
But I’m also a realist — and despite recent promises by Uber and Ford, I k**w that self-driving cars are decades away from becoming a significant part of our lives.
You have to love Ford and its promise of a driverless car by 2021 (http://mashable.com/2016/08/16/ford-fully-auto**mous-vehicle-2021/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) — a mere five years from **w. We're **t just talking about an automobile that can drive itself, but one without steering wheel or floor pedals. This is what’s k**wn in the world of car auto**my as a Level 5.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/ford-uber-driverless-cars-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Transportation (http://mashable.com/category/transportation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Self Driving Cars (http://mashable.com/category/self-driving-cars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Auto**mous Vehicles (http://mashable.com/category/auto**mous-vehicles/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Driverless Cars (http://mashable.com/category/driverless-cars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Ford (http://mashable.com/category/ford/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/eyqJdG6fYmY
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It’s time for some real talk about self-driving cars: they're **t coming around any time soon.*
You won’t find a bigger fan of the tech**logy than me. I love robots, auto**my and artificial intelligence. I can still remember visiting Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and standing a few feet away from the car that nearly won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004.*
SEE ALSO: Get out of the driver's seat, human (http://mashable.com/2015/03/24/driverless-cars-are-better-than-you/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
But I’m also a realist — and despite recent promises by Uber and Ford, I k**w that self-driving cars are decades away from becoming a significant part of our lives.
You have to love Ford and its promise of a driverless car by 2021 (http://mashable.com/2016/08/16/ford-fully-auto**mous-vehicle-2021/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) — a mere five years from **w. We're **t just talking about an automobile that can drive itself, but one without steering wheel or floor pedals. This is what’s k**wn in the world of car auto**my as a Level 5.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/ford-uber-driverless-cars-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Transportation (http://mashable.com/category/transportation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Self Driving Cars (http://mashable.com/category/self-driving-cars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Auto**mous Vehicles (http://mashable.com/category/auto**mous-vehicles/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Driverless Cars (http://mashable.com/category/driverless-cars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Ford (http://mashable.com/category/ford/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/eyqJdG6fYmY