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    The UK government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on public roads from January next year.
    It also invited cities to compete to host one of three trials of the tech, which would start at the same time.
    In addition, ministers ordered a review of the UK's road regulations to provide appropriate guidelines.
    The Department for Transport had originally pledged to let self-driving cars be trialled on public roads by the end of 2013.
    Business Secretary Vince Cable revealed the details of the new plan at a research facility belonging to Mira, an automotive engineering firm based in the Midlands.
    "Today's announcement will see driverless cars take to our streets in less than six months, putting us at the forefront of this transformational technology and opening up new opportunities for our economy and society," he said.

    BBC News - UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January

    Only a few questions on this really....

    No driver = no insurance?
    No driver = no license?
    No driver = can we all get pished and let the car drive and not get stopped?
    Who gets sued when an accident occurs?
    If these are automatic then no speeding taxation, where will the government make money from speeding cars?

    I can see this is well thought out so far *shrug*
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    put my name down for one of them then
    Go out get pissed, knock neighbours porch down, reach Mach 1 in a car, all without leaving the sofa and watching ishit failure tv

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    Might be a good idea. As long as meat head isn't servicing them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nara View Post
    Might be a good idea. As long as meat head isn't servicing them.
    Meat head has been test driving them for years, nearest you can get to driverless is putting meat behind the wheel

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    Quote Originally Posted by nara View Post
    Might be a good idea. As long as meat head isn't servicing them.
    It'll be grand. Driverless cars don't have a side facing foo foo valve.

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    A Georgia man has been arrested for drunk driving after he told deputies his dog drove him to the store to buy some corn, you can still get done without being on the wheel.

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    Will it be possible to dispatch car for weekly shop, while I rest on sofa,,,,will an app become available for this and other chores???????

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    Its a real clammy govt failure! let them bring the driverless rules I can then see every speeding ticket and other offence being challenged.
    No officer I wasn't in charge of the car! The electronics took over control. Its already been proven that a cars ECU can be hacked to effect steering, brakes and ignition, so with this law change it would shift the responsibility to proving if you were in charge of the car at the time of the incident. So now cars can legally drive themselves your not responsible
    All we need now is a ECU remap hack to indicate car is self driving.......all the time!!

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    interesting article
    Wireless controlled car!!!
    How to Hack a Car: Phreaked Out (Episode 2) - YouTube

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    Driverless cars are coming to Direland in 2016 but the fact that they have no driver on board means that they will have to use the right hand side of the road for six months.

    Should be fun.

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    Will a driverless car tow another? That will be a friendly car.
    Last edited by alessioblaupunkt; 6th August, 2014 at 07:18 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alessioblaupunkt View Post
    Will a driverless car tow another? That will be a friendly car.
    NO its more likely a driverless car will shunt a driver controlled car of the road for being a danger to other drivers. It will be a new H&S policy "to make roads safer"! you mark my words?

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    What are they being guided by? If it's satellites then they are not 100% as they lose signal daily and in heavy atmospheric conditions are we going to have masts put up everywhere? And who is fronting the cost? Sure these things can be made to work in a controlled enviroment but on a saturday night when meaty comes out of pub falls over what then mayhem f**^^%%"""!!!fs My teacher told me years ago there would be flying cars by 2000 and we believed that crap then.

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    but on a saturday night when meaty comes out of pub falls over what then mayhem f**^^%%"""!!!fs

    That'll be real IShit failure.

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    If they're made by Google you want to hope they have air con as well............. wait for it

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