So there will be no need for insurance

rover54 · 4th December 2012, 21:45

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ads-years.html

but do any of you remember a Top Gear episode where Volvo demonstated a crash free car and it went straight into the back of a HGV trailer, very funny clip; hope they have improved their technology.

Petetourer · 4th December 2012, 22:17

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Originally Posted by rover54

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ads-years.html

but do any of you remember a Top Gear episode where Volvo demonstated a crash free car and it went straight into the back of a HGV trailer, very funny clip; hope they have improved their technology.

I think they also found a video of a Mercedes S class doing pretty much the same thing...

windrush · 5th December 2012, 07:23

That will be the day

greendriver · 5th December 2012, 07:34

crash preventing sensors...hmmm Fit them on the doors so if they park their Volvo's too close they can't get the doors open!

Brek · 5th December 2012, 07:44

we really need to make a stand about this type of technology now and tell them to do one. I do not want a self drive car under any circumstances. A licence for the government to exercise even more control over us.

r.t.swing · 5th December 2012, 08:35

I didn't buy either of my cars to be a passenger, except when coming back from the pub.

r.t.swing · 5th December 2012, 08:39

Light bulb moment - does that mean my car car can drive my good self home when I'm two sheets from the wind.

grandy · 5th December 2012, 08:52

it will never happen,did anyone see the GADGET SHOW this week they had one ,no driver the young lady went in it with the guy sitting next to her doing the demo doing over 100 mph not touching a thing car was driving perfectly round the circuit,impressive but when he opened up the back of the car to show just how much tech stuff it took to do this well forget it,

HarryM1BYT · 5th December 2012, 09:13

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Originally Posted by grandy

it will never happen,did anyone see the GADGET SHOW this week they had one ,no driver the young lady went in it with the guy sitting next to her doing the demo doing over 100 mph not touching a thing car was driving perfectly round the circuit,impressive but when he opened up the back of the car to show just how much tech stuff it took to do this well forget it,

Prototype equipment is always much larger than it needs to be to enable it to be developed, the final working unit will be tiny. The first computer I made was the size of a suitcase, ran at 1m and had 8k of memory. My laptop has 4Gb of memory and runs at 2GHz.

greendriver · 5th December 2012, 09:13

Not practical in towns for many years to come. I saw the program too...wouldn't work in my car with all the leaks in my boot...

4th December 2012, 21:45	#1
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greendriver This is my second home MG ZTT 180 in Poseidon Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Croydon Posts: 3,745 Thanks: 44 Thanked 86 Times in 75 Posts	Not practical in towns for many years to come. I saw the program too...wouldn't work in my car with all the leaks in my boot... __________________ *None of my troubles are Rover*

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5th December 2012, 08:39	#7
r.t.swing Regular poster Rover 75 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: London Posts: 64 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Light bulb moment - does that mean my car car can drive my good self home when I'm two sheets from the wind.