Re: A little Packard History from 1945

Posted by Brian Wilson On 2019/10/22 3:47:52

Re: Self Driving Cars

Don't hold your breath for this. Yes, they are coming but nowhere near as fast as some suggest. Legislation allowing semi-autonomous vehicles will first come into force in Europe in 2022. This requires a competent (licensed) person in the vehicle capable of taking control if necessary. Even Teslas will stop if there is no driver input at the controls for a period of time. So they can't operate with the driver asleep, as suggested in some deliberately misleading advertisements (short sellers of Tesla shares!)

It's also becoming obvious that electric vehicles are not a good long term answer to the energy problem. They will very likely be superseded by other fuels (hydrogen cell?) before truly autonomous driving vehicles become legal.

The change to unleaded fuel was expected to be the death knell for historic (vintage) racing, but it hasn't happened. Avgas is still readily available.

Yes, it's all coming but not likely to trouble most of us.