http://inhabitat.com/google-lobbies-to-allow-self-driving-cars-on-nevada-roads/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Fri, 24 May 2013 19:53:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://inhabitat.com/google-lobbies-to-allow-self-driving-cars-on-nevada-roads/comment-page-1/#comment-332196 XenoSilvano Fri, 13 May 2011 04:33:54 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=249773#comment-332196 This is a big step This is a big step

]]> http://inhabitat.com/google-lobbies-to-allow-self-driving-cars-on-nevada-roads/comment-page-1/#comment-331865 lazyreader Thu, 12 May 2011 12:13:44 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=249773#comment-331865 Most of the technology needed to make driverless cars exists. The challenge is proprietary software to run networks of cars and bureaucracy and red tape. Driverless cars may yield advantages of increasing roadway capacity by reducing the distances between cars, reduce congestion by efficiently controlling the flow of traffic, thus reducing the amount of road lanes we actually need. If anything could reduce the world's vehicles (estimated to be 800,000,000) to a fraction of that number within a few decades. If almost all private cars requiring drivers, which are not in use and parked 90% of the time, would be traded for public self-driving taxis that would be in near constant use. This would also allow for getting the appropriate vehicle for the particular need. Children could be chauffeured in supervised safety, DUIs would no longer exist and highway accidents would be a thing of the past. Most of the technology needed to make driverless cars exists. The challenge is proprietary software to run networks of cars and bureaucracy and red tape. Driverless cars may yield advantages of increasing roadway capacity by reducing the distances between cars, reduce congestion by efficiently controlling the flow of traffic, thus reducing the amount of road lanes we actually need. If anything could reduce the world’s vehicles (estimated to be 800,000,000) to a fraction of that number within a few decades. If almost all private cars requiring drivers, which are not in use and parked 90% of the time, would be traded for public self-driving taxis that would be in near constant use. This would also allow for getting the appropriate vehicle for the particular need. Children could be chauffeured in supervised safety, DUIs would no longer exist and highway accidents would be a thing of the past.

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