Honda has been building driverless Accords since the early 90s.

LOL. We are quick today RHead! I would have said Toyota and Camrys but whatever floats your boat.

yeah i was gonna say cramrys, pieces of garbage, these things will be stupid, save for say taxis or something.

GM is wasting a lot of money on this.

How about spending $$$ on good engine gaskets and transmission clutch packs.

Or… make a 50 MPG Diesel Cobalt to sell.

GM is full of idiots who can’t see reality around them.

I agree with GetReal … this is a pretty dumb way to spend money when there isn’t much market for it. Car crashes, as bad as it sounds, creates a lot of jobs: tow trucks, repair shops, parts sales, and even new cars for those that are totaled. Investing money in vehicles that can compete, are reliable, and decreasing dependency on non-renewable resources should be the target of their R&D. A diesel Cobalt would be pretty awesome by the way.

This is the Principle. BFD… They are so behind in all this automotive Development ****. They are Merely trying to save there ass and Show they are capable of all this technological Adv. that Foreign Auto Companies have been doing for quite a fews year now…

Then they Through some Bole **** futuristic year out there, that they might have them on the roads by 2018. it wont be GM that Develops these… But they will take credit for throwing them in there death traps first.

Its sad, that its finally hitting them, taking part in all these advances when they happen are a Necessity, instead issuing all it out to 3rd party’s to develop it. LAME.

GEAT REAL….. Who wants a COBALT especially a DIESEL.

This is just stupid PR crap to get in the headlines. The media eats this **** up.

No thanks. I like driving my car and will continue to do so.

If they do introduce this technology, the benefit is that accidents will be greatly reduced. However, I think there should be some kind of option to drive the car yourself, but the system analyzes what you are doing and takes control if you are about to run into another car that is in your blind spot or something like that (if you are a moron).

This is the first time that Get Real is right.

Is that Caterpillar on the Tahoe’s windshield?

This is the same idea as that BMW 3-series that drove itself on the last episode of Top Gear, right? Hasn’t it already been done then? By BMW? WTF?

Leave it to the lawyers to hinder technological progress and advancement. Proof that they truly are blood sucking leaches.

It’s all a matter of spin. They just decided to change the name from “buyerless” to “driverless”. Just like changing the name from “used” to “pre-owned”.

If a normal GM car can’t go 50,000 miles without a transmission failing or some basic electrical component crapping out, who’s going to trust them with 50 interconnected systems that are supposed to prevent you from crashing? That’s insane.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ROFLMAO

LP640…Do you have a LP640?

ha ha roger426 if i did then i wouldnt be blogging on LLN.

Oh…what do you drive?

ive got a Golf GT
what do you drive?

04 Audi A4

DeansterTJ, my 2000 Sierra went 150k miles without an tranny fluid change and still runs strong. Those 700-R4 transmissions that burned the 3-4 clutch pack were due to misadjusted throttle link cables. If you want crappy transmissions, go to Dodge. I’ve NEVER heard of a GM trans going before, or even near, 50k miles. You probably just had really bad luck.

Another way for dumb asses to survive. Maybe we should just make the drivers license tests harder and more frequent. We could eliminate the 5% of dickbags who cant drive.
I could see some 15 year old hacker shutting down all major artteries in L.A. with a laptop and a high speed connection. People couldnt even avoid the mobs of rioters as they sit helplessly in their automated cars.

I see law suit: Senator Kennedy programmed his Tahoe to get it him from Boston to Portland, took his dose of Chavis Regal and ended up without gas in Ohio (without killing any secretaries). Old man got confused between Main and Oregon and froze to death!

This is my dream vehicle.

C6Racer, more likey, he’s probably just full of ****.

This is stupid, its just another way for people who cant drive to live.

GT40: fully agreed. Drivers who can’t drive should die in a self-inflicted car accident, as long as they don’t take others along with them to their graves.

I never would’ve thought GM would be the ones pushing to get this “technology” out there. I’m kind of sad.. But I bet the insurance companies have a huge one over this. No more “human mistakes”, this just sucks. I can see it now, 2018, we’ll all have honda asimo’s driving around in our auto pilot tahoes doing all our errands for us. We’ll never have to leave the house, now that’s living!

Obviously we all know this is where technology is heading…in 30 years kids will laugh about how us oldsters had to actually drive ourselves to destinations.

I dunno, Eddie. If that’s true, I’d be laughing that them for being too stupid to drive themselves anywhere.

The future is going to suck.

I can see these being used in iraq……..thats it. Are americans really getting that lazy?????

I was reading an article in a car mag recently in which the author was driving a Jag with the intrusive cruise control. Said a few times the sensor saw a truck going 30 mph slower in a different lane but because of a curve the sensor thought the truck was in the same lane and slammed on the brakes. If someone had been behind him…

Michael ….

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RicardoHead: “Honda has been building driverless Accords since the early 90s” Classic!

A4: “i was gonna say cramrys, pieces of garbage.” And you were gonna be guilty of redundancy.

Livelyjay: A diesel Cobalt would still be a Cobalt.
Speaking of which, I got home and discovered that in one of my neighbors’ driveway, instead of her civic, I saw a Cobalt. Did she move up? Later, I asked her if she’d gotten a new car. Turned out she’d gotten into a wreck on I-5. It was a rental. Let’s see if she likes it. Her civic wasn’t totaled, (although it could be said it came off the boat/train totaled), so she should get that back. See if she misses it. When I needed to go out of state and had to rent a car, I rented a Plymouth breeze. For the only time ever, I was glad to be back in my Civic.

Comment by casualobserver: “They just decided to change the name from ‘buyerless’ to ‘driverless.’” Good one.

SwerveEarly: “Maybe we should just make the drivers license tests harder and more frequent.” I agree, particularly in California, where there are too many vehicles on the road anyway. My brother failed five times before passing.

“I could see some 15 year old hacker shutting down all major artteries in L.A. with a laptop and a high speed connection.”
I remember reading a book in which a guy took over the world with a 386 or something.

autonut: good stuff on Sen. Kennedy. Only thing less electable than a democrat from Massachusetts is a democrat from San Francisco.

All you guys bashing this as an enabling tool for idiots need to watch more Knight Rider.

Eddie Willers: “Back when I was your own age, I had to turn, brake and watch for when the light turned green!’