Pretty soon you're gonna be able to drive your car without driving your car.
Lets talk about that.
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Good mythical morning.
If you're somewhat normal you probably already know about driverless cars,
a thing that people are developing right now and something that may be in our very
near future. But you don't have to worry if you don't
know all about it because I went out and did some
- (both make boop noises) - research and right now, right now
I'm going to tell you everything that you need to know to seem like you know what
you're talking about when it comes to driverless cars, okay?
Because that's what it's all about,
- it's about seeming like you know stuff, - This is for parties.
- This is for parties. - really about knowing things.
No, I'm genuinely interested but I've held back from the boopidy boops because
- I didn't wanna over boopidy boop lap you - Yeah, stay outta the boopidy boops.
- when I knew you were already in there. - Okay, so you might wonder when did this
whole thing get started, isn't this like a relatively recent thing?
Well, actually back in the 80's at Carnegie Mellon University the guys there
came up with the Navlab one, which was a Chevrolet panel van.
- (Link laughing) Look at that thing! - With five racks of computer hardware.
This thing had software limitations, it was able to-- once it was fully
functional it was able to achieve a top speed of 20 miles per hour.
- (both laughing) - It looks like something you drive into a
- tornado just to destroy it. (laughs) - You wouldn't want to drive it away from
- a tornado at 20 miles per hour though. - You wouldn't.
- 20 miles per hour. - So that was the start, that's where
- this thing started. - This was pre-Google but I mean in terms
of like corporate fores into driverless cars was Google at the for front of this
- thing or? - Well, hey, Link hold your boopidy boop
- horses, man. - I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Because at first I wanna tell you how they work then I'm gonna tell you who's doing
- this. - How do they work, Rhett?
- First tell me that. - Okay, it's pretty simple.
It's actually very complex but it's not magic.
- I thought it was magic, okay, - (laughs)
I'll be honest with you that I thought it was magic until I started doing research
and now it's basically just a combination of radar, lidar which is basically lasers
being fired off of things and they can sense objects, GPS and computer vision.
It's a combination of all these things that leads to them being able to create a sense
of what is around them and they can do this at pretty high speeds very reliably.
(Link) So basically makes the world around a car look like Tron?
Exactly, this is like looking inside a driverless cars brain.
But, you know what? They're still having trouble with things,
even with all of this technology they still have trouble with snow and rain,
not too great in snow and rain but hey, I'm not either, come on, give me a break.
- (laughs) - Not very good at navigating through
parking lots. Which that surprised me a little bit,
- that's kind of a low speed endevour. - Funny enough that's one of the first
things I think of I wanna do without having to drive.
- Yeah, I don't wanna park. - I'm here, now just park me.
- I wanna read my book while it parks. - Right.
- Not yet. - You know, it's the holiday
- (singing) season and everybody's trying - (singing) Heyyy.
- to park. - Right.
Everybody's listening to Christmas music.
- Is that what you were going into? - (laughs) Yeah, you know it is, people
- kill each other for a parking spot. - Yeah well, they're having trouble parking
but they're also currently unable to differentiate between a pedestrian and
a policeman or between crumpled up paper or a rock.
- Now, you've gotta think about that. - Been there.
- You can see that, you see that thing - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
in the middle of the road and you're like "is that a bag or a rock?"
- Usually it's a bag. - I dodge the bag too, so.
I go for the bag. I want the bag to get up under the
undercarriage and be like "did I get it? Did I pick it up?"
and then we take it out when we get home. Not recommended if you care about your car
but it's a fun game to play with the kids.
- (both laugh) - Anyway, Google--
- What do you call that game? - It's called "car bag pickup in a car."
- Bag drop. - Google projects have these--
Google, getting into Google. Projects have these issues dealt with by
2024. Link, that's when the 2024 Olympics will be.
- And that's when Cornhole's gonna be a sport. - Right and cars will be able to dodge
- paper-- drive over paper and dodge rocks. - Yeah, paper will be no problem for the cars.
- Okay, - It's gonna take ten years?
several companies involved in this right now, but believe it or not,
and maybe you already know this, but there are some driverless cars
out there on the road right now. Especially in San Fransisco, California.
- Just a little north of here. - How many we talking? Like, one?
- Well there's at least two. - Like, "There it is." (makes car sounds)
There's at least two that I know about. On December 22, 2014,
Google unveiled a fully functioning prototype of their driverless car that's
been driving itself around San Fransisco. This thing--
(Link) No one's in it? Looks like a clown car.
- (Link) There's 40 clowns in that thing. - (Rhett) There's nobody in the picture.
They might put a person in there just to put people at ease.
'Cause if you pull it next to some grandma and she thinks that the end is near,
- Or me. - you know, she'll go, "Aaah!"
- Or you; or Link. - If I saw that car going down the road,
I'd be like, first of all, "Where are the clowns?"
"Hold on! Listen, there's a car rolling real straight down
- (laughs) - the road right now,
and nobody's driving it! It's outta control!
- But it looks like it's in control! Weird!" - No! I would--
I'd run after it and get in it and try to stop it.
It has no steering wheel, it has no breaks or gas pedals,
so you'd be out of luck if you got in there, man.
Have you seen the hills in San Fransisco? It seems like the worst place ever to have--
You don't need it. But that's nothing.
Okay, so the Google car; pretty cool,
but it kinda looks like an egg. The Mercedes Benz F 015.
This is a self driving car concept that is currently roaming the streets of
San Fransisco. You gotta move to San Fransisco if you
want to have an interaction with a driverless car.
The best to describe this is to show you the video.
They released this video on the Mercedes channel in Janurary.
- Okay. - This thing is absolutely amazing.
- Woah. Now that looks like CJI. - It is an actual video.
- That's an actual desert. - The car kinda looks--
- It looks awesome. - Oh! Look! Look!
This is inside. Look at this guy just chilling.
- What is that? - Star Trek like platform.
- Is that floating there? - Look how cool he is.
- Is he in the back seat or the front seat? - Hey! Look, look, look, look, look, look.
He's just caressing the screen and things are happening and there's bubbles on it,
and he's just pressing it. Got a touch screen on the entire side
- of the door. - Dude, look.
- He's driving using those bubbles. - No, he's not doing anything except
enjoying himself. He's entertaining himself.
- He's not worried about driving. - He's so bored that he's playing with bubbles?
You think that's special? Look at this.
At night time when a person is trying to cross the road in the middle of the desert,
which happens all the time, it sense that somebody wants to cross.
- I don't know how. - Or is that a hitchhiker?
It's projecting that onto the ground, and then look.
- It looks like a wifi signal. - It projects a freaking crosswalk
- for the person! - What?
- (woman's voice) Please go ahead. - And then it starts speaking at you.
- What? - "Please go ahead."
A guy in the desert-- he's just like "I wanna hitch a ride."
- What's that guy doing in the desert? - (laughs) I dunno, he's dressed nice though.
This car can do all kinds of things but "how much does it cost?" you ask, Link.
- How much does it cost? I do ask. - Well that cost 10 million dollars.
- What? - So that ones-- that's a concept car so
it's about 10 million dollars to develop that.
But Google had a Prius before that was-- just a Prius that was kinda suited up and
that would be about $300,000 with everything
- 300,00 on a Prius? - that you actually needed to make it to
drive. So this is not very affordable right now but
just around the corner, everybody. Don't lose hope, just around the corner it
will become affordable. It's gonna add about $7,000 - $10,000
to the car sticker price in 2025, that's gonna draw it up to about 5,000
additional dollars in 2030 and then by 2035 it's only gonna be about $3,000
extra to become driverless which is when they say experts predict that you will be
able to completely be able to completely independent from the driving experience,
- you will just be chilling in your car. - 2035?
- 2035. - 20 years.
- We'll still be alive, hopefully. - Hopefully.
- Hopefully we'll make it through the Olympics. - But there's cars out there now that will--
they'll take over like they'll prevent you from like rear ending somebody on the 101 or
- Right. - or like hitting a pedestrian.
Just little tastes of being a driverless car.
- Right, driverless moments is what they are. - But what I'm talking about is that I
don't have to anything except for just like watch a movie.
But are they safe? That's my big questiom.
Oh, Link are they safe? I'm glad you asked.
Well, you know what, 90% of all car accidents are caused by human error.
10% are caused by that deer. That deer goes everywhere.
(Rhett) Yeah, yeah, that deer is a big trouble maker.
But there's the Eno center for transportation predicts that driverless
cars will decrease the number of accidents by
- 211,000 per year. - Percent?
- 200,011 crashes per year. - 200,011--
- Wow. - I mean the Google driverless car has been
going around-- Google says that their driverless car fleet has logged 700,000
- miles with no accidents what so ever. - So the computer is smarter than a human
- because it's going 20 miles an hour? - What?
No, no, this thing's going normal speed limit.
It's smarter than a human because it's a computer.
It was actually in two accidents that were both a result of humans.
One of them they were rear ended by somebody that stopped like "that's not the
- cars fault, that's the humans fault, huh?" - It should've sped up.
And then the second time a driver was driving the driverless car and they
- wrecked it. - Well that's the stupidest thing I've
- ever heard. - Yeah, why are we even hearing about this?
Why are you getting a driverless car if you're gonna drive it, stupid?
It's like "oh, it's finally my chance, I get to drive a driverless car." stupid.
And listen, and this where we wanna what your opinion is.
- We always wanna hear what your opinion - But really right now.
is but I wanna see how it lines up with what most people who have been surveyed
said about this because regardless of how safe these things appear to be only about
50% of people say that they would use a driverless car.
Another 50% are skeptical about this and think "I don't know, I wanna be in control."
Because you think about the malfunction, it only takes one malfunction to like stop
- on a train track while you're sleeping. - But you're much more likely to malfunction
- than the robot that's driving the car. - I'll own that one.
But the more education that you have the more you trust robots apparently because
59% of college graduates said that they'll do it but 62% of those with high school
diploma or less say "I ain't doing that.
I ain't trusting that car, it's a robot. It's gonna turn on me."
- (laughs) - Where do you stand in this debate?
- Do they talk to you like Kit from Night rider? - You can make them talk--
(redneck accent) Yeah, you can make them talk to you like this if you want.
"Mr Rhett what do you want? You want a cheeseburger to just come out
- of the door?" - It cooks too?
- I'm sure it will. - It will not.
By 2035 it'll do what ever you want to. It'll discipline your children.
- You won't have to do anything except - (laughs)
- just lean back. - "Don't make it pull over, kids!
- (laughs) - It'll do it, I won't even be doing anything!"
Okay so that's the state of driverless cars in 2035 we'll all be leaning back and
enjoying watching the Titanic as we dive around in our Mercedes.
- That is poetic. - (both laugh)
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- a driverless car? - Link is obsessed to sayinging the word
"nugget" and goes to Rhett for help.
Oh nugget, man. I gotta come to you with a problem, nugget.
- My na-- are you calling me nugget? - Rhett, man, nugget I got a problem.
- That's not my nickname. - I keep just saying "nugget" all the time
- and I can't nugget get rid of nuggeted. - (both laugh)
Well do you need me to find like a nugget or something or maybe you touch a nugget
- or something and then-- - You just need to check me in to that
- anti-nugget place, man. - I dunno if that exists.
I can't find a nugget so I guess you're outta luck, nugget.
- Nugget. - Is it contagious?
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