Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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you...

My son in-laws truck has a cruise controll system that backs the throttle off when he gets too close to the vihicle in front of him. It also gives him an aural and visual cue when he's too close to an object on the right side. If some things stopped in the road it warns him even around curves.

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I would expect this to show up in the commercial field first, lots of advantages, particularly for a semi. It took awhile for ABS brakes to be adopted in the car market where things are a lot more price sensitive. Eventually though, one would expect things like this to start showing up on high-priced models first and then working their way through the lineup.

I'm sure there's a certain part of the population that enjoys driving, and would resist any moves to take control away from them, but I hate driving anymore and would just as soon have a better qualified, sensor-loaded car, take the tedium. Almost anywhere you go in L.A., at almost any time, it's going to involve some bumper to bumper traffic any more. I imagine having the machines doing the driving would probably speed things up, especially if they could reroute to less congested routes based on wireless automatic updates from a sensor street grid and computer system.