And if you think it over it started to be happen already. Commercial
airplanes can take off, land and fly without a pilot, military uses UAV
planes to save lives of pilots and to reduce the size of the vehicle and of
course to make manoeuvres that is cannot be stand by a human. Many train
system can go without the driver etc... And of course there is the Google
car and most main car manufacturers are developing such system.

After quick search I have found these:

Mercedes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9-j0jXEGbGs

Volkswagen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMQ6JKzdZUrk

GM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3De32yeI1YSI0

Tamas



On 10 February 2012 09:05, Jesse Lackey <jsl-ml@celestialaudio.com> wrote:

> Large-scale driverless vehicles will usher in societal change on the
> scale of the internet and cell phones.  The possibilities are near
> endless, once one starts thinking about never having to drive (work
> during commute time), automated deliveries, higher speed driving on very
> dense roads b/c of vehicle to vehicle coordination, ability to centrally
> plan routing of many thousands of cars in a metropolitan area minute by
> minute, knowing within 5 minutes how long a 30 mile drive in dense
> traffic will take, ability to prioritize some vehicles over others, your
> car parks itself and meets you when you want it to, on and on and on.
> Revolution.
>
> Not that it will be easy or fast, but it will happen.  Huge gains in
> safety, convenience, and efficiency/cost drive it all (pardon the pun.)
>  But an entire class of lower-middle-class careers will disappear.
>
> J
>
>
> YES NOPE9 wrote:
> > Presume that claims for Google cars or other driverless cars are
> > valid......  that is , a driverless car is safer than a human-piloted
> > one...
> >
> > Does it make sense that driverless trucks would be safer, more fuel
> > efficient and very clever at routing ?  Perhaps trucks could pick up
> > and drop off loads without human intervention.  Shipments could be
> > routed for maximum cost saving without regard to transit time..... No
> > humans touch the boxes from start to finish.   99guspuppet
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