The best thing about it, of course, is that it's a VOLVO
Volvo Car Group demonstrates the ingenious self-parking car
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precopster
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Volvo Car Group demonstrates the ingenious self-parking car
It's a work in progress. It's cool to think that by the time my son learns to drive there could be a totally self-driven car on our roads.
The best thing about it, of course, is that it's a VOLVO
The best thing about it, of course, is that it's a VOLVO
Current cars VW Transporter 2.5TDI, 2010 XC90 D5 R Design
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And then we'll have autonomous cars fighting with each other. AC road rage. Hopefully they will employ the heartbeat sensor already used to assure no children or pets get locked in the car.
There could be a Mob version that drives the corpse out into the countryside and opens tailgate and ejects corpse at the landfill.
You blow into alcolock device and if you are above the limit then it tasers you through seat heater grid and then opens the right rear door. Once you are seated then it drives you home or to rehab center depending on the frquency and BAC from recent past.
I see limitless possibilities.
There could be a Mob version that drives the corpse out into the countryside and opens tailgate and ejects corpse at the landfill.
You blow into alcolock device and if you are above the limit then it tasers you through seat heater grid and then opens the right rear door. Once you are seated then it drives you home or to rehab center depending on the frquency and BAC from recent past.
I see limitless possibilities.
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Made me laugh, jimmy: 
Yeah there's a lot for the engineers to consider. A friendlier version would be a robotic dummy with a cab driver's hat just like those in Total Recall (original) The seating position won't be missed as only a small fraction of cars have more than one passenger.
You could just talk to the dummy all the way home while trading insults about his driving ability and hope he likes Hot August Night and Songs in the Attic at full volume. If not you buy him earplugs (well the hearing sensors should be in the head somewhere)
It would be easy to steal a spot from a Volvo looking for a park. Just nudge in front and allow the accident prevention scheme to kick in. There'd be Volvos looking for spots all night running out of fuel/batteries in the parking lot as frustrated shoppers can't get past them.
Yeah there's a lot for the engineers to consider. A friendlier version would be a robotic dummy with a cab driver's hat just like those in Total Recall (original) The seating position won't be missed as only a small fraction of cars have more than one passenger.
You could just talk to the dummy all the way home while trading insults about his driving ability and hope he likes Hot August Night and Songs in the Attic at full volume. If not you buy him earplugs (well the hearing sensors should be in the head somewhere)
It would be easy to steal a spot from a Volvo looking for a park. Just nudge in front and allow the accident prevention scheme to kick in. There'd be Volvos looking for spots all night running out of fuel/batteries in the parking lot as frustrated shoppers can't get past them.
Current cars VW Transporter 2.5TDI, 2010 XC90 D5 R Design
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It will only be a matter of time before there are fully autonomous cars on the roads. The company I work for already has mines with fully autonomous haul trucks that drive around the pit, get loaded, dump at the crusher and go back for more ore, all by themselves
Give it some Jandal!