What would happen if you started that feature while sitting in traffic?
What would happen if you started that feature while sitting in traffic?
93EXCivic wrote: What would happen if you started that feature while sitting in traffic?
It would probably park the car somewhere...
I can already hear the incredibly long list of colorful language that would flow forth from my pie hole if I were to be caught behind one of those in a lot. 
Internal computer registers on entrance with parking lot computer?
Forget no empty space. Can it park evenly between lines when there are a row of empty spaces? What if the lines are faded, or one shiny happy person parked just over the line and caused the whole lane to shift down a bit?
How is it going to avoid handicapped, reserved, 15-minute curbside pickup, etc. spaces?
How will it react to the never ending stream of cars driving around it that are tired for waiting for its slow-assed puttering?
I wonder what those two pairs of boxes were for in the early part of the video? Almost looked like they acted as checkpoints for the car or something.
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JohnRW1621 wrote: Will never be offered in the US is my guess. The reason will be that the threat of product liability litigation will be too high.
The American lawyers are probably frothing at the mouths just thinking about this. The possible risks seem almost endless.
Beer Baron wrote: How will it react to the never ending stream of cars driving around it that are tired for waiting for its slow-assed puttering?
Well being German it shall simply invade the factories that those other cars came from.
Rxbalt wrote: I wonder what those two pairs of boxes were for in the early part of the video? Almost looked like they acted as checkpoints for the car or something. Edit:
Notice that the second one is where a lift gate would normally be. It is some kind of checkpoint for sure, the question is if the car needs them for guidance or if it's some kind of parking authentication system.
Roomba is trying to expand their product line. 
O.K. so that is genius level. what, 75% of VAG cars have a least one burned out light bulb of some sort. And a water leak. I find that ironic.
What rock have you guys been living under? As car buffs, I'm pretty surprised you are collectively as in the dark on this subject as you seem to be.
Autonomous cars are already legal in 3 state (Nevada, Florida, and California). Soon they will be in Michigan as well.
They are still in the testing phases in most areas, but Google has logged over 300,000 miles of autonomous driving with their fleet of driverless cars. VW has an autonomous Golf. Audi has run Pikes Peak with a GPS guided TTS. There are dozens of companies making huge progress on this.
Yes, all your questions are the crux of the challenges in bringing them to market. Legals, safety, redundancies, etc. But make no mistake... they ARE coming. Projections are saying 3-5 years.
And your Google overlords really don't care if you don't like it.
The next step is SkyNet...
Having your car make important decisions while you go shopping. What will they think of next?
I like to think some engineer has been working on this since he first saw a knight rider episode back in the 80's. The smart phone revolution must have been a godsend after trying to convince everyone that an oversized digital wristwatch was the best method of control.
In reply to ditchdigger:
Isn't Apple rumored to be about to bring out an iWatch thing?
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