Google is developing autonomous self driving car.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/09/google-car/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Not sure how far is it going to work, especially in countries like India. There were many attempts made and some of them are successful partially to a certain extent. There are many automotive companies working on driver assistance for a long time and they are well integrated into the design process of the car manufacturers, i.e. they build a box that fits into an existing car. They might have proved on well mannered roads like in US but that too with not 100% accuracy. This may take a while may be a decade or more than that because, Its not easy to get rid of existing cars and move to autonomous cars, For many, driving is a passion and they can just away to computers. Though computers may have faster reaction time, they don’t drink, they look all around, etc.. but they certainly will not understand humans. They will not understand how humans drive, especially on roads like Hyd. The best place to test the car is Bangalore where you find dead end on almost all lane and surprise one way traffic which changes every hour. Even a god cannot predict and drive the car safely there, forget about Artificial Intelligence the real intelligence does not work.
The only way is to have automated only cars and roads suitable to them, but that might be quite a challenge to the first set of cars. Unless there is a mass production of cars and every one moves to automated self driving cars, it not going to be so easy. It will be very interesting to see if Google can make any progress.
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