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Saturday Link Fest
8 September 2012 Posted By anthonyp
Several Links for your weekend reading:
Currently an online poll at Canadian website cbc.ca is showing 62% of respondents in favour of self driving cars.
Brad Templeton has an article up at Forbes comparing High Speed Rail to self driving cars and how both might integrate with futuristic air travel. (Hat Tip to Thom Landon for both links).
Meanwhile College Humor does a parody of Google X including the self driving car program (Thanks to Paul Godsmark).
Expert Members of IEEE think that 75% of cars will be self driving by 2040 (Thanks to Gabriel).
This next link (whilst not specifically on self driving cars) has an interesting look at the pros and cons of robotic parking.
An article at Business Insider says Google’s self driving cars may be more expensive than Ferrari’s but suggests ways to bring down the costs.
Nearly 90% of surveyed drivers want driver assist technologies but only 39% would be happy with a self driving car*, at least according to the Detroit News. Interestingly, the article notes:
99 percent of those surveyed considered themselves “good” drivers.
Enjoy your weekend!
*39% seems quite encouraging for a relatively untested technology that is still a ways off…
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