"And if its Friday afternoon in the summer w/cape traffic I might get 2 drinks in."

Always the worst day....

murph...not being cynical of you in anyway...

With that consideration MADD should be all over self-configured and navigated vehicles.

No designated driver needed....DUI drops off....open container laws adjust to circumstance.

Insurance premiums drop in half.....maybe lol. Depends of what they feel of self-navigating 4000 lb vehicles.

IMO, for vehicle self-navigation, combined with motor/body controls managed by sensor I/O propagation alone.... will not work in our lifetime when set next to liability.

It would require a base technology to absorb liability that might lead to a complete tether-less vehicle that might function within our litigious society.

A base tethered technology, that may absorb some of the liability in our life time, would be trace sensor elements embedded within and along side of roadways (hard wired and wireless) that signal issues of road conditions, traffic conditions, traffic control conditions, directional issues, emergency conditions...etc.

In other words, the surrounds are detailed into a map of sensor elements...and all the sensors communicate, vehicle to road...etc, with each other... giving, as complete as possible, the big picture.

This would work in conjunction with the now ongoing, in the news, tether-less sensor efforts for self-navigation.

A combination of tethered and tether-less may lead to the advancement of tether-less self-navigation.

From my prospective, no one is being serious… until they start talking serious infrastructure. Which could mean putting a redundant ID sensor on every object down a roadway.... including other vehicles and beyond.

No one is talking infrastructure yet, at least not in the public eye as vibrant they are with the GOOGLE crap.

Now, if one wants to consider sensors and sensor I/O as it all relates in a collective system/network, a serious network that is wide open to anyone…

All it takes is the vision and some really serious entrepreneurial efforts to pull all the pieces together.

The IoT…. what a joke acronym.

e.Digital, define the curve in front of the jokester, follow the leader circus I’m witnessing in real world environments.

Detailing a logical sensor map should be a walk in the park for a company like e.Digital, seeing that it already has the insight to detail in a logical fashion.

Now that I have thrown it out there, not that efforts are not being ventured as I comment... watch the news and see what happens in the way of getting serious about the self-navigating vehicle in the news.... and the real issues that need be in place.

This is not about the IoT...but, a combination of the IoT and real word environmet....

IoT-RWE

FWIW

doni