Robotics Expert Clears The Air And Testifies That Self-Driving Cars Are "Absolutely NOT Ready For Widespread Deployment."

When the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on Capitol Hill this month to assess America's readiness for the arrival of self-driving cars, it summoned a who's who of industry executives: Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, plus executives from Delphi, General Motors and Lyft, all of which are racing to bring self-driving cars to market.

Then, as if to splash cold water on their ambitions, the committee called Missy Cummings, an engineering professor and human-factors expert at Duke University who argued self-driving cars are "absolutely not ready for widespread deployment."

TheSteve - 3/28/2016 11:55:22 AM

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Is anyone surprised? That's why Google and others are still in trials.

Agent009 - 3/28/2016 3:38:32 PM

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The problem is they want to release it now to recoup the investment, not when it is fully vetted decades down the line.

Eventually it will be mainstream, but not quite yet

PUGPROUD - 3/28/2016 8:25:22 PM

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The more I read about autonomous driving the further out in time it seems. The extent of the issues to be resolved are broad and deep...cost issues, insurance issues, ethical issues, legal issues, human behavior issues, governmental issues,
assigning responsibility issues, hacking issues, software issues. Historically sea changes in human behavior and technology take much longer than anticipated.