Self-Driving Cars Will Be in 30 U.S. Cities by the End of Next Year
Finally, we can put up our feet and let computers take the wheel.
Automated vehicle pilot projects will roll out in the U.K. and in six to 10 U.S. cities this year, with the first unveiling projected to be in Tampa Bay, Florida as soon as late spring. The following year, trial programs will launch in 12 to 20 more U.S. locations, which means driverless cars will be on roads in up to 30 U.S. cities by the end of 2016. The trials will be run by Comet LLC, a consulting firm focused on automated vehicle commercialization.
Were looking at college campuses, theme parks, airports, downtown areasplaces like that, Corey Clothier, a strategist for automated transportation systems who runs the firm told, The Observer.
He explained that theyre focusing on semi-controlled areas and that the driverless vehicles will serve a number of different purposesboth public and private. The vehicles themselveswhich are all developed by Veeo Systemswill even vary from two-seaters to full-size buses that can transport 70 people. At some locations, the vehicles will drive on their own paths, occasionally crossing vehicle and pedestrian traffic, while at others, the vehicles will be completely integrated with existing cars.
Read the rest at: http://observer.com/2015/03/self-driving-cars-will-be-in-30-u-s-cities-by-the-end-of-next-year/
bomboms
(1 post)Great information I will tweet to my friends to get them to check it out. keep it up. Thanks for sharing!
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)I am really looking forward to this, no more waiting at the green light for that yahoo to putdown her cell phone and drive, no more jerk driving on the shoulder of the road becosue he is to important to merger in to traffic like us commoners. No more staying alert (and awake) on long drives while my family sleeps, becosue I would be naping right along with them.
Sign me up!
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)What an American statement.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Yes, Sylvia. It is scar ask.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)That breaking in period should be fun to watch...
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)...by focusing on this now they will be years ahead when setting up the driverless boats they will soon need downtown.