The Future of Self Driving Cars

Minnesota Futurists Presents: "The Future of Self Driving Cars" by Tom Trites. Timestamps: 0:00 Title Card 0:13 Presentation Begins 10:38 From 1956: A future vision of driverless cars 25:26 WSJ looks ahead 41:30 FSD tech explained 1:12:46 Self-driving doom Video Links and Information: The future of self-driving automobiles: By Thomas Trites Inspired by a text asking me if my new Subaru could do self-driving? Turns out that it can’t; wrong model. Some 2026 Outback Wilderness can be modified to add a limited “hands-free” driving, which works in very limited circumstances. So what is the future of the self-driving auto? This is harder than it looks. Where’s the edge of the road? Is a road required? How does the car know to stop? Start? Most of the USA’s population lives in cities whose streets have curbs. Farms with unpaved driveways are not going to be getting this soon. The movement is starting with various forms of robot-taxis. Looking back at looking ahead:    • From 1956: A future vision of driverless cars   Firebird 8:55 WSJ looks ahead    • Why the Car of the Future Might Not Be Wha...   8:00 tech explained    • Self-Driving Tech EXPLAINED: How Autonomou...   14:45 Take the car to the farm in the winter. No curbs. No signs. Ice patches under snow. … Self-driving doom:    • Self-Driving Cars are DOOMED. The $2 Trill...   12:05 0-5 levels?    • 5 Levels of Self-Driving Cars: The Future ...   14:05 Our new Subie is ~1.5) More meaning of meanings    • The $400 Billion Dollar Robotaxi Race Is O...   40:45 Impossible?    • Why Fully Self-Driving Cars Are Almost Imp...   40:10 level 5 is here! Well, there.    • Tesla BLOWS UP The Entire Robotaxi Market ...   23:46Tesla blows up robotaxi ? How self-driving cars will destroy cities:    • How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities ...   54:36 Heinlein: We haven’t gotten to Heinlein’s Mary Risling’s Camden Speedster yet. From 1941, Methusealah’s Children Mary Risling had no intention of permitting anyone to know where she was going. She dropped down the lift tube outside Ventura's apartment, claimed her speedy little ground car from the attending automaton in the basement, and set the control combination for North Shore. The car slid up the ramp, waited until the traffic control signaled a predicted break in traffic, then joined the high-speed northbound stream. Mary Risling settled back for a little nap... She woke just before the signal from the car which would have called her... She signaled the traffic control ahead; it cut her out of the stream of vehicles and reduced the speed of her car, then rang the alarm which notified her to resume local control. Before doing so she fumbled in the storage compartment on the instrument board and fumbled, apparently purposelessly. But the registration number which the traffic control automatically photographed as she left the controlway was not the number in which the car was registered. She followed the side road for a distance of several miles at a speed high for even a Camden speedster, turned down into a narrow country road which ran down near to the lakeshore, and stopped. She waited, lights out and sideport open. ...She reached again into the storage compartment, snapped something, and the back of the speed dial glowed, revealing another dial beyond. She studied it and made adjustments. Had there been a bystander, he would have been startled to observe what appeared to be a standard Camden rise up off the ground as easily as a skycar. He would not have long to wonder - the car moved out over the lake, dropped down to the water and sank beneath it. Seventeen minutes later, the car rose up to the surface of a small pool of water, a pool that occupied much of the floor of an artificial cavern.