if one was to look back through the anals of History taking note of our
technological advances since the invention of fire they might note
automation as one of Humanity's primary goals I mean what are heaters and stoves
if not fires which don't require all the fuss and mus of wood Gathering and
stoking if one looks back at the history of automated automobiles though it
appears very stunted and brief while scientists have technically been working
on driverless Vehicles since the better part of a century now the first
successful attempts at these Technologies didn't emerge until
somewhere around the mid 1980s on top of this the technologies
that will ultimately allow cars to operate themselves didn't really gain
much public attention until much more recently that is of course until Tesla
blew everyone's freaking Minds by suddenly announcing their line of
vehicles which will be going rogue this July many car companies have been
implementing Technologies like cruise control GPS tracking and cameras for
functions such such as rear viiew monitoring in both business and personal
vehicles for decades now but it wasn't until basically the last decade or so
that we began seeing more autonomous functions like Lane departure warning
and correction systems or even stuff like blind spot monitors being
implemented widely by manufacturers Beyond these individual capabilities the
need to couple all these features with a list of others such as collision
avoidance systems and complex maneuverability for things such as
emergency stops or parallel parking seem to have perpetually confined the
advancement to this realm of near but
far off future it seems that while we've all been blissfully waiting in patience
for the future to arrive technicians on behalf of many many entities have been
diligently working to bring it to us ahead of schedule and although there has
been an increased Rumblings from those such as Audi who successfully drove
their autonomous Deli model vehicle from California to New York it seems they
were CAU sleeping as Tesla announced they will be rolling out limited
automation to all of its Model S and above lines with the simple addition of
a software update this has been so exciting not simply due to its timing
but also because this will be the first public offering of level three
automation which is the ability for a vehicle to control itself under certain
conditions in this case only allowing drivers to engage autopilot on highways
and interstates and then returning manual control for in town driving is
this technology going to end up being legal where I live or am I just
investing in something that I'll never be able to use like an Ubisoft game will
this lead to roads being actually safer or simply lull people into a sense of
security which slows their reaction in emergency situations leading to a higher
rate of really bad accidents or maybe
the largest question of all due to the legal and monetary implications who's
responsible when the car self-drives into another the driver or the
manufacturer with these questions and many more still
unanswered it seems that the verdict for how useful autonomous vehicles will end
up being is still set off in that slightly intangible future rest assured
though they will come speaking of good stuff little bits little bits lets
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heart makers artists designers Engineers students you pretty much name it the
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get your dog to send a text not that he's going to say anything too
thought-provoking or you can make a robotic snack server so the idea is why
go out and buy electronics and toys when you can invent them and reinvent them
over and over and over again there's over modules that can be used in
virtually Limitless I mean actually there would be a number for you know 60
I mean guess you could duplicate some module okay virtually Limitless creative
combinations and in this Tech driven world I can see for my kids personally
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