If anything, the ability for vehicles to crab sideways when they park would be far more beneficial for everyone.

With all the money spent on toys they could probably have developed an 'undercarriage' with a 12V motor to do just that!

undercarriage would be too heavy, thats why they have self parking cars,a lot less weight to replace drivers that cannot steer

as more people become bad at steering, self steering cars will help traffic flow as those that cannot park properly tend to hold the traffic up quite badly in some places

Outside schools spring to mind!

Or at this rate, people will start relying on "auto" everything and as soon as there is a computer error, a bunch of people dies.

I am all for technology but self-driving, self-parking w/e several tons of machines don't sound safe enough to me.

I do hope we reach a level of technology where cars embarrass me for what I said but I don't want my 3-year-old daughter getting killed by a retarded driver and their "smart" car.

Yes, because humans have proved to be so completely safe at driving and parking cars in the last century.

There's no substitute for hard data. And the data from self-driving cars as to fatalities per 100k miles seems to indicate that they are roughly 40 times safer than humans. Don't ask me to put a link up to the data, because I've no idea now where I read the report, but it was all peer-approved and backed up.

So that means, where human drivers would have killed 40 people, the self-driving car kills one. But, because the 40 'normal' fatalities don't make the headlines, you don't notice them. Whereas you DO notice the one killed by a machine.

I know self-driving cars will be a thousand times better than drunk, distracted, rookie etc. drivers who get behind the wheel by the millions but I meant right now. I do wish the technology progresses at a much faster rate so we can completely remove the human error from the equation.

I follow the topic closely myself but like the Uber example, machines need to be much better than their current state. Also, I don't think they are testing any of those vehicles in high-stress situations; just low traffic, and slow driving speed. There are a hundred different things that can go wrong on the road from the weather conditions to the vehicle malfunctions.

Companies need to test for every possible scenario, only then automated driving can be reliable and universal but that is my opinion like I said.

Testing is already going on and as far as I know they have just made a new microchip especially for autonomous vehicles which apparently can deal with info from 2 motors at once, in other words the processor is able to work far faster and deal with more situations than ever before

If you check, the Uber example wasn`t a software fault or hardware glitch, it was software had been turned off, ie, the cars own safety systems were turned off in favour of the autonomous software. the info is on the internet if anyone needs confirmation, but thats how I read it to be

If you check, the Uber example wasn`t a software fault or hardware glitch, it was software had been turned off, ie, the cars own safety systems were turned off in favour of the autonomous software. the info is on the internet if anyone needs confirmation, but thats how I read it to be

Which shows that it was a software fault...just Ubers rather than the one the car came with. Uber turned the cars own software off to test their own software which in this case failed to work properly.

www.ft.com/content/895ab9c0-5f5d-11e8-9334-2218e71...4

I used to drive a road/pavement scrubbing machine that had independent drive /steering to each wheel that if u put it on full lock it could crap in the direction you turned the wheel.

I hope you made a typo back there and didn't mean what you wrote.........