Totally agree with you and the original poster that the Google car is probably not driving as well as many people think.
If it was nearly near it,Google would sell that tech in any way, because that would make them probably the most valuable company in the world.
I can't imagine how an self driving car would, for instance, know how to drive into my garage (hint: it's not at all straight ahead & flat). How does the car know where it is allowed to park on a private parking? There are lots of huge challenges here.
A friend of mine knowning the automotive R&D much better than me also confirmed that view. We won't see them before years and years.
What I could well imagine soon, though, are for instance specially prepared highways that would allow to drive driverless on given sections. Probably increasing the overall throughput and so the CO2 emissions etc.
The reasons why we won't be having self-driving cars anytime soon is that car product development cycles are very long. Even if car makers were working with Google now to put this into cars, it could be five years before you'd see anything in dealerships.
And before that they probably need to become street-legal in major countries, convice manufacturers to trust Google etc.
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Totally agree with you and the original poster that the Google car is probably not driving as well as many people think.
If it was nearly near it,Google would sell that tech in any way, because that would make them probably the most valuable company in the world.
I can't imagine how an self driving car would, for instance, know how to drive into my garage (hint: it's not at all straight ahead & flat). How does the car know where it is allowed to park on a private parking? There are lots of huge challenges here.
A friend of mine knowning the automotive R&D much better than me also confirmed that view. We won't see them before years and years.
What I could well imagine soon, though, are for instance specially prepared highways that would allow to drive driverless on given sections. Probably increasing the overall throughput and so the CO2 emissions etc.
The reasons why we won't be having self-driving cars anytime soon is that car product development cycles are very long. Even if car makers were working with Google now to put this into cars, it could be five years before you'd see anything in dealerships.
And before that they probably need to become street-legal in major countries, convice manufacturers to trust Google etc.