mkube17
63% expect driverless cars by 2025. What features would you like / dislike in your connected car?
Dan Kaplan
I'd like it not to run over people!
Kristen Nicole
I just had a baby girl. I expect I won't have to worry about her on the road at 16 as much as my mother did, with cars compensating for modern driver distractions
Dan Kaplan
One of the huge challenges with driverless cars is the lower tolerance for mistakes. Even if autonomous vehicles reduce fatalities by 80%, the moment a robot kills someone...
Tom Cheesewright
I cycle a lot. People are terrible drivers. I'd be much more comfortable with predictable machines.
Tom Cheesewright
Like the suggestion they might reinvigorate the british pub industry...
Pierre Metivier
@KristerNicole Unless the 2025 world allow only cars in the road, there still will be pedestrians, dogs, kids playing, cyclists (more and more), mopeds on the roads... and those won"t be software driven.
Tom Cheesewright
Totally - but you may be confined to the track
Xavier Larduinat
@bookofthefuture and boost birth rate?
mkube
@bookofthefuture Will we need to justify if we drive our cars ourselves in the future?
Tom Cheesewright
Absolutely - to your insurer primarily
Jme
what happens when someone types in Uzbekistan and sends their drunk, passed-out mate off in a car?!
Frederic Martinent
maybe you will have to pay more for your insurance if you drive yourself?
Tom Cheesewright
To the point where self driving is very much a luxury
Tom Cheesewright
Of course most of us won't actually own our own cars, so insurance won't be ours - and nor will the choice
Tom Cheesewright
Though that will be later than 2025
Xavier Larduinat
Maybe software add-ons will enforce security and give you insurance bills discounts
Tom Cheesewright
They certainly need to be more secure than they are today...
Frederic Martinent
@bookofthefuture For some people, owning and driving a car will still be important, it will stay a mean of self-expression
Tom Cheesewright
It might be important but you'll have to be wealthy. Insurers are good at pricing risk. As volume goes down, exception prices likely to rise.
Frederic Martinent
The ability to securely upgrade software embedded in the cars will be key to improve security
mkube
@FredMartinent Agree. This "Evolutionary security" will be key for IoT. We all use it with our computers today.
Tom Cheesewright
That's a great phrase - how much will the software itself respond to threats and evolve?