Self Driving Cars

Volvo is aiming to be the first car maker to bring self-driving vehicles to the public. To do so, it has partnered with Sweden to bring 100 self-driving Volvos to the streets of its second-largest city, Gothenburg. The project has a budget of $76.2 million and will begin in 2014. The cars — which use a set of cameras, GPS data and motion sensors to avoid collisions — are set to have a maximum speed of 43.5 miles per hour. By comparison, Nissan plans to have its self-driving models completed by 2020. Google might want to jump on getting more of their cars to the public and see how that goes. Internet phone services might also be a plus when people are considering these cars. There is also going to be a great opportunity for application development with these cars. What are your thoughts about the cars that can drive themselves? We are not quite at the level of artificial intelligence but thoughts of Skynet come to mind. Also, creating a smart car means creating more problems as far as hacking goes. If someone wanted to gain control over a device, what better thing than a car that weighs several tons?