That an ad company (which is what Google really is) designs driverless cars for example.
Driverless cars (where I have voiced skepticism) and Glass are great forward thinking projects.
Driverless cars will have a revolutionary impact on traffic one day and the job market.
Sebastian Thrun, a pioneer in the field, reckons driverless cars could save 1m lives a year.
In addition, the calculation that disruption will not happen until driverless cars are prevalent could be faulty.
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Which led me to thinking about these mooted driverless cars, like the Google Driverless Car project.
Driverless cars are very likely to be safer than ordinary vehicles, as autopilots have made planes safer.
It would be cheaper to modernise the Schwebebahn with driverless cars, but Wuppertalers will not hear of it.
The bottom line: Driverless cars provide an opportunity to either make or lose an awful lot of money.
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Supporters say driverless cars will be safer than vehicles driven by error-prone humans.
Driverless cars might be huge, even though I made fun of the idea when I first heard of it.
When it comes to driverless cars, California is actually the third state to authorize them, behind Nevada and Florida.
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Driverless cars can be downright scary to some people, who see them as intruders from the world of science fiction.
In this regard, car makers might have a bigger problem in that driverless cars might be incompatible with their current models.
Professor Thrun is a leader in the field of driverless cars and has built two robotic vehicles called Stanley and Junior.
Worldwide, driverless cars might significantly lower the 1.2 million fatalities and more than 50 million injuries caused by vehicular accidents each year.
Driverless cars will inevitably reduce the need for a lot of that spending, and throw much of the rest up for grabs.
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Although the vehicles would still be controlled by a human, one analyst said the development could eventually be incorporated into driverless cars.
"There is a lot of research into driverless cars and, for that, GPS needs to be as accurate as possible, " he added.
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For that matter, the same can be said of driverless cars.
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The complicated business-model considerations for driverless cars have already kicked off an intense game of three-dimensional chess, and Google could obviously lose.
He is a former head of the US intelligent highways program and oversaw public trials of driverless cars in the 1990s.
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Because driverless cars have no track record, the biggest challenge for car insurance companies will be measuring risk and pricing policies accordingly.
Burns drew a parallel between driverless cars and the level of disruption that digital photography brought on Kodak (as I have done, separately).
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This is why people are shocked when they hear that driverless cars will likely be on the roads in large numbers by 2020.
Driverless cars have the potential to make roads safer because digital messages will allow vehicles to stay in constant communication with one another.
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The companies need to get out a clean sheet of paper and reimagine what their business could become in the context of driverless cars.
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Driverless cars might also spark enormous new revenue opportunities to serve connected vehicles and their captive occupants, now freed from the task of driving.
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If you struggle to imagine why these will be important think of hoverbikes, and hovercars even more importantly, as the natural extension of driverless cars.
If we will have driverless cars in the future, why are we spending time and money developing a car that a blind person can drive?
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