Fully Self-driving Cars by 2021

[Don]

Fully Self-driving Cars by 2021, Says Ford CEO

On Tuesday, during a hectic day of media interviews about the coming revolution being caused by autonomous vehicles (AVs), Ford’s CEO Mark Fields told Wall Street analysts that such vehicles “could have just as significant an impact on society as [Henry] Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago.” He told workers at a Ford plant in Palo Alto, “This is a transformational moment in our industry … it is a transformational moment in our company. We are making people’s lives better by changing the way the world moves.”

He’s not alone. Johann Jungwirth, VW’s head of Digitalization Strategy, said in April that he expects the first completely self-driving cars to be on the market no later than 2019, just three years from now. GM’s Richard Holman, head of the company’s “foresight and trends” division, agrees, telling the Wall Street Journal in April that they “will be on the road by 2020, or sooner.”

Its going to transform transportation.

[Standing Wolf]

"...such vehicles “could have just as significant an impact on society..."

Everything I read this morning seems to be a pun, double entendre or ironic statement.

I am 100% opposed to the idea of sharing the road with "self-driving vehicles". That drivers could override the cars' programming does nothing to make me feel any better about them - presupposing as it does that such interference, in an emergency situation, wouldn't make the situation even worse and compound whatever bad thing was happening. There is absolutely nothing to recommend such a scheme apart from novelty and laziness.

[Cigar]

Not going to happen with me