The driverless car could reduce the need for cars by enabling efficient sharing of vehicles.
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Google is driving a transformation in automobiles and transportation with its driverless car technology.
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Which led me to thinking about these mooted driverless cars, like the Google Driverless Car project.
In fact, the driverless car has broad implications for society, for the economy and for individual businesses.
And I thought it had something to do with being driven in a driverless car to the singularity!
At the same time, the driverless car will create enormously lucrative business opportunities to serve new customer needs.
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Should a driverless car swerve to avoid pedestrians if that means hitting other vehicles or endangering its occupants?
Such a system has the potential to help the burgeoning driverless car industry.
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If the driverless car technology works, Google could provide the driverless software to manufacturers, rather than making cars itself.
In 2008, a state-of-the-art driverless car could go two blocks on its own on a closed course at 25mph.
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But the driverless car is hurtling toward us and could be dramatically accelerated if one or more of my three scenarios happen.
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If the driverless car takes that long to matter, it might never happen, or at least not happen in our lifetimes.
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If the car companies, however unintentionally, take an approach that would prevent the driverless car, or other fundamental advances, they will lose.
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Now, Toyota has come up with a variation on the driverless car idea that actually might turn out to be more practical.
Is that what the experience of a driverless car would be like?
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By 2012, the driverless car could operate in real-world conditions at 75mph.
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Or, taking an optimistic perspective, the driverless car demonstrates the kind of game-changing killer apps that are now possible in almost any industry.
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The driverless car might also save developing countries from ever having to replicate the car-centric infrastructure that has emerged in most western countries.
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Driverless car technology has the very real potential to save millions from death and injury and eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of costs.
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Both the series and the eBook show that, while much has been written, coverage of the driverless car has mistakenly focused on the science-fiction feel.
But just as Google came back with Glass and the driverless car, and updated their innovation reputation (and share price), so too Apple will return.
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Even beyond the world of autos, the driverless car should be a wake-up call about the pace of disruptive technological change that looms for every industry.
Even beyond the world of autos, the Google driverless car should be a wake-up call about the pace of disruptive technological change that looms for every industry.
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He says the coming technology explosion will drive out factory workers, low-skilled laborers, customer-service operators and even truck and taxi drivers (thank you Google Driverless Car).
Telling Google engineers that their Google projects destroy cable TV or book publishing by making them obsolete should be much easier, certainly easier than building a driverless car.
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In sum, the driverless car provides Google with tremendous future business option value, all for less than what GM has spent on Super Bowl commercials over the last decade.
In addition, the driverless car would reduce wasted commute time and energy by relieving congestion and allowing cars to go faster, operate closer together and choose more effective routes.
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And it will of course be inevitable when cars are driven by computers, something Google and others are quickly making a reality with the development of the driverless car.
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According to CNN, when someone asked Sergey Brin who would get a ticket if a driverless car ran a red light, Brin simply replied that driverless cars do not run red lights.
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The Financial Times is carrying a story that Google too is now working on a smart watch and it is doing so in its Android division rather than at X Labs, where the folks are looking after Google Glass and the driverless car.
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