Watch a new BMW prototype drive itself in heavy freeway traffic

Oh that's going to go over well...a few of these units
clogging up the highway by doing the speed limit and p*ssing
everyone else off.

I bet municipalities across the country are cringing at the thought of driverless cars that obey traffic laws. How are they going to replace the lost traffic fine revenue?

Are you ok to drink and have this drive you home?

I can already hear that tiny voice coming from the dashboard saying, "I'm sorry, Dave, I just can't do that."

What if a killer was after me and he step front of the car. Will the car run him over or wait till he moves

The requirement that a driver be ready at a moment's notice to take action when the car doesn't realize a crisis is brewing is a complete deal-breaker. Your average idiot would start texting the moment the car started auto-piloting and 250+ car pileups would become daily occurrences.

Am I the only one that noticed it did not turn on its turn signal while changing lanes. Now when I have to give the bird to something it is a computer program . But, nice technology!

Riding in that thing would make me even MORE nervous than I was when I taught my wife to drive !

But does it use the turn signal properly? In California it seems they are optional, or perhaps a suggestion that the driver usual forgets to alert others.

I see a lot of cars driving themselves on the freeways in southern california while the driver is heavily involved in cell phone activity. Pretty scary...

Oh no, not me. The more complicated a system, the more there is to go wrong. One little glitch and you're dead. Have you ever had something go wrong with your car while you were driving?

I don't care what anyone says, I can't wait for this to happen. I'm tired of all the retarded drivers out there. Traffic flow would be so much more efficient in cities. And who cares if you're going a few mph slower. people need to slow down and quit rushing everywhere like they have to take a s#it..

wait for a patch, i'm sure this car is buggy.

Cool. But way more dangerous than no help at all. Impossible to stay ready to take over at any moment when the car is doing all the driving - you will stop paying attention and do other things for sure, and then ?

Very cool technology but like one person said on here, if I bought that car I would want to drive it not ride in it.

For public information:
USA Army has automated vehicles that drives itself trough off road conditions, the prototype was developed for a university modest team in a VW tuareg and won against other well funded teams with a lot of specialists.

it won't survive 10 mins in EDSA

I gotta get me one of those wake me up when we get there ;-)

Probably better to program a car to LEARN to drive rather than to try to program a car to drive itself. There's a ton of stuff we do when we drive that we never think to write into a line of code.

I can't wait till no one has control over their car it will be so much better. Right now, if the speed limit is 45, people go 50 or 55. If it's 50, they go 60 or 65. If it's 65, they go 75 or 80. If your not going fast enough for them they get on your #$%$ until you move. They stay on peoples #$%$ until someone has to slam on the breaks and narrowly miss that person, or even hit them. If everybody obeyed the laws to a T, then there would never be a problem. You would never have to slow down on the highway for anything. I normally get into the right hand lane and go the speed limit, i never have to break, i never have to move... just drive in a straight line. It's so much easier than breaking every 10 seconds, having to get over, then back over, then over then break, then back over having to try and get over cause everyone is going 80 while your doing 35 because some idiot is doing 50 in the fast lane.