Autonomous Car’s Amazing Decision: Will It Turn? #shorts
Witness a self-driving car navigate a tricky intersection! It's watching one vehicle, but another approaches. Will the AI commit and make the turn? Good stuff! #SelfDrivingCar #AutonomousVehicles #AI #Tech #FutureOfDriving from Tesla In The Gong
A driverless car without steering wheel, pedals, or gear shift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU
What does a built-from-the-ground-up Google Self-Driving Car Project look like? Well, you start by taking away all the things that allow you to actually drive the thing — you take away the steering wheel and pedals that give a driver control.
Two Seats — No Back Or Front
There’s no steering wheel, pedals, or gear shift. Instead, just push a button and they’ll take you where you want to go!
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Safety First
The car has about two feet worth of foam in the front to dampen any collision, and a plastic windshield instead of shatterable glass.
The self-driving car is part of a bigger vision for re-envisioning the transportation environment. If you look at people who are too old, too young, or disabled, and can’t get around, that’s a big challenge for them. Just imagine, how could this change transportation for them. Expect to see about 100-200 prototypes by end of this year on road.
Google wants to reinvent the car by replacing the whole idea of driving
The next stage of Auto Industry will be a paradigm shift as an ultimate driverless machine rather than a marginal gain.
Automakers are taking an incremental approach, where they let the car drive itself in the situations it can handle and turn control back over to the human driver when the car encounters something it can’t handle. Google says that won’t work, and has data to prove it. The problem is that the carmakers’ approach requires that the human “driver” remain ready and alert at all times, doing all of the mental work of driving so that if called upon to take over they know what’s going on and what needs to be done. Given how many people don’t pay adequate attention to their driving even when they are in sole control of the vehicle, this is clearly insane.
Google tested it by giving 100 employees semi-automated cars and then recording the results. Even though the employees knew the technology was a prototype, as soon as they saw it working well they immediately put far too much confidence in it, proceeding to ignore the road for large amounts of time. These employees were skilled engineers with a deep understanding of automation and much better able to judge what the car can or cannot do than the general population.and their judgment terrified the skilled engineers who built the vehicles. That is why it is extremely tough to get from incremental improvement to full self-driving.
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So, Google Self-Driving Car Project believes in an all or nothing approach: either the car must be able to handle the job entirely on its own or it’s not ready for real-world deployment. At a minimum, if the car encounters a situation it can’t handle it must be able to give the human driver plenty of notice before he or she has to take over. Expecting the driver to be ready to take over at any instant simply will not work.
Of course, what’s even better is if we simply remove human driving from the equation entirely. Get the car to the point where it can really handle anything that can come up, and remove the human controls. That is what Google is working towards.
Google is attempting autonomy in city driving, a challenge, at a different order of magnitude from what BMW and most of the rest are aiming for. In some ways this is primarily a mapping challenge. There is a kind of ambitious genius in what Google is aiming for – and of course the implications, positive and negative, are debatable – but the spirit of it seems to go against the grain of what people are ready for.
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A car from the future, people are willing to get inside today. The future’s coming a lot faster than we thought.
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„Prompt-Verkehrsschilder” können autonome Fahrzeuge vom Weg abbringen
Na, freut Ihr Euch auch so auf autonomes Fahren ?
I am honestly amazed by how incredible #waymo is. Having the chance of sitting down in a #selfdrivingcar is incredible
Freaky Self-Driving Car Knows Roundabouts? AMAZING! #shorts
Watch this car's self-driving feature handle weird silences, hidden cars, and roundabouts! It's surreal how well it picks up on subtle nuances. Could you see yourself using this? #SelfDrivingCar #Tesla #FutureTech #CarTech #AutonomousVehicles from Tesla In The Gong
Weekly output: Uber and Lucid’s robotaxi, Craig Newmark on dodging scams, Jensen Huang on engineering, Better Offline podcast
I got back from CES Friday morning, which means I’ve now more or less caught up with my sleep deficit from those frenetic five days in Las Vegas but still have a lot of writing to do.
1/5/2026: This Is the Robotaxi That Lucid and Nuro Are Building for Uber, PCMag
I wrote the first version of this off an embargoed copy of Uber’s announcement, then did an in-person inspection of Uber’s forthcoming self-driving version of the Lucid Gravity electric vehicle and updated the story two days later.
1/7/2026: Craiglist’s founder has some simple rules for not losing your mind—or money—on the internet, Fast Company
My video interview with Craig Newmark happened back in December–without any PR minder on the call–but online scams are an unfortunately evergreen topic.
1/7/2026: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: This Is Why I’m Lucky to Be an Engineer, PCMag
It was a treat to see Huang accept the engineering group IEEE’s annual medal of honor at a private event and gush a little about his chosen profession–the same one that my dad picked in college.
1/8/2026: CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday), Better Offline
As I did last year, I wrapped up CES by joining tech gadfly Ed Zitron’s Better Offline podcast at the hotel suite he booked in Vegas for a lengthy conversation about what we saw at the show and what that says about the state of technology. My fellow guests in this Thursday night recording session: standup comedian Chloe Radlciffe and fellow writers Garrison Davis, Robert Evans, Westin Lee, and Ed Ongweso. After some post-recording banter, I went from there to the airport and fell asleep within maybe 10 minutes of takeoff.
#autonomousVehicle #BetterOffline #ces #CraigNewmark #Craiglist #EdZitron #IEEE #JensenHuang #LasVegas #LucidGravity #Nvidia #onlineScams #PauseTake9 #podcast #robotaxi #selfDrivingCar #Take9 #Uber #Vegas
Tin công nghệ mới nhất:
📱 Lãnh đạo Samsung vừa đề cập khả năng giá của Galaxy S26 sẽ tăng.
🤖 Cùng lúc đó, Nvidia đẩy mạnh hợp tác để phát triển xe tự lái.
#CôngNghe #Samsung #GalaxyS26 #Nvidia #XeTựLái #Tech #SelfDrivingCar
FSD Drives Like A Human: Tricky Aussie Roads Tested! #shorts
Watch as a self-driving car navigates winding, hilly Australian roads with ease. Roundabouts and narrow lanes? No problem! See its human-like precision. #SelfDrivingCar #AutonomousVehicles #AussieRoads #TechInnovation from Tesla In The Gong
Self-Driving Car Avoids Parked Cars: Amazing Tech! #shorts
Watch this self-driving trailer flawlessly avoid parked cars without any human intervention! See how it favors the left, adjusts for obstacles, and even uses indicators. Truly stunning autonomous driving in action. #SelfDrivingCar #AutonomousVehicles #TechInnovation #FutureOfDriving from Tesla In The Gong
Self-Driving Car Freaky Right Turn: Human Behavior Tested! #shorts
Watch this self-driving car detect and avoid pedestrians! It slows down, gives them space, and navigates a sharp turn—all without human intervention. Freaky! #SelfDrivingCar #AutonomousVehicles #TechInnovation #FutureOfDriving from Tesla In The Gong
First Driverless Car भारत की पहली चालक रहित कार का अनावरण: IISc, विप्रो और RV कॉलेज ने मिलकर बनाया देश का ‘ड्राइवरलेस वंडर’ #DriverlessCarIndia #IISc #Wipro #RVCollege #WIRIN #MadeInIndia #Innovation #Technology #Bengaluru #SmartMobility #SelfDrivingCar #IndianTech #MakeInIndia #भारत कीपहलीचालकरहितकार #IIScWiproDriverlessCar #cars #innovation #bengaluru #madeinindia #wipro #IISc #indianstartupnews
https://www.vrnewslive.com/first-driverless-car-india-autonomous-mobility/
Here’s another example, also from (the awesome city of)¹ San Francisco: During the recent major event, several streets around Union Square were closed off. Apparently, #Waymo hadn't heard of that situation for some reason 🤦♂️, or couldn't "teach" their cars. And so this #SelfdrivingCar got stranded, blocking traffic on Post and Stockton.
Note how the officer places a traffic cone neatly in front of the car. Smart!
¹Don’t even try to debate me on that one. I love it here. 🤷♂️😉
Overall, I’m really impressed by the #Waymo #SelfdrivingCar fleet in San Francisco. Edge cases are plentiful, though. In this example, a confused Waymo vehicle is blocking the bus lane.
The bus had already been waiting for a few minutes, and honking didn’t make a difference, of course. Yes, the Waymo pulls forward in the video, but it stopped again after just a few feet.
It's almost as if Waymo, the company, is giving #PublicTransportation the symbolic finger that way. 😕
#Waymo #selfdrivingcar gets pulled over by #police for an illegal #Uturn
https://www.kpax.com/us-news/waymo-self-driving-car-gets-pulled-over-by-police-for-an-illegal-u-turn
Cảnh sát California dừng xe tự lái Waymo vì quay đầu trái luật, nhưng ghế lái trống trơn, không có tài xế để phạt! Tình huống dở khóc dở cười khi luật pháp chưa kịp điều chỉnh cho "robot" lái xe. #SelfDrivingCar #XeTuLai #GiaoThong #CaliforniaTraffic
Got questions about self-driving cars? 🤖 🚘
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson from the University of Oxford and Waymo about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.
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Tesla influencers tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving, crashed before 60 miles | Electrek
Self driving is just around the corner...
Most Brits don’t trust driverless cars as 2026 launch looms
A new survey by motoring insurance comparison site Quotezone.co.uk found 66% of respondents had an unfavourable opinion of driverless vehicles, with just 12% saying they viewed the technology positively.
The findings come as ministers confirm plans to begin trials of self‑driving taxi and bus services in spring 2026, with a wider rollout of fully autonomous private cars pencilled in for late 2027.
Safety fears top the list
When asked about their biggest concerns, almost a quarter (24%) cited safety and accident risk. Other top worries included the chance of technical failures or malfunctions (18%), the loss of human control (17%), and the threat of hacking or other cyber‑security breaches (12%).
Insurance and liability questions were also raised, with 11% saying they were worried about who would be held responsible in the event of a crash – the driver, the manufacturer, or the software provider.
‘Public trust is still catching up’
Quotezone’s founder and car insurance expert Greg Wilson said:
“While driverless technology continues to advance at pace, it seems public trust is still catching up. Many people remain understandably cautious about handing over control to a machine – especially on busy, unpredictable UK roads.
Driverless cars bring up a lot of complex questions surrounding insurance and responsibility. Insurers will need a robust framework for claims in order to help drivers feel more secure.”
Reluctance to own
The survey of 1,000 UK adults, carried out in July, found 84% would not be willing to own a driverless car. Only 13% said they would, with the rest undecided.
Limited self‑driving features are already legal in the UK, but current rules require a human driver to remain in control at all times. The government’s planned pilot schemes would be the first time fully autonomous passenger services operate on public roads.
#TeslaAutopilot car drove into a giant #photo of a road https://zorz.it/VETSW | #JeremyGray #MarkRober #autonomous #car #LiDARSystem #safety #SelfDrivingCar #technology #Tesla #vehicle #VisionCamera
