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If self-driving cars become anything like what armchair futurists are predicting within 10 years, I'll eat my hat. The on-demand car that picks you up and drive

• erikpukinskis 11y ago
  What do you see as the gating milestones that we can't hit in 10 years?
• golergka 11y ago
  What kind of hat do you wear?
• jernfrost 11y ago
  While city driving might be some ways off, do you really believe reliable highway driving is more than 10 years off. I really can't see why that could not be achieved within just a few years. We can send rockets into space to build space stations on autopilot, why not drive on the highway? Those odd, really seldom cases where an AI can operate your car it should not be hard to build a failsafe system which drives the car safely off the highway, stops, wakes you up and insist that you take over the driving.
• bertil 11y ago
  The car that I describe could be either yours or on-demand, possibly as a complement to you driving it yourself — just like using any of Google services is the main service for any of your own device. I predict that the service that Google or others might provide (mapping, avoiding congestion) will have a larger market growth than electricity consumption. That is indeed a prediction for the next 84 years, so futurism, made from my armchair, but I don’t think that many developers works without one (standing desk excluded) — so I’m a little confused: are you using that expression as a dismissive?