Gadgetory

if one was to look back through the annals 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 muss 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 as rearview 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 seems 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 Audie who successfully drove their autonomous Delphi model vehicle from California to New York it seems they were caught 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 low 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 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