By 2009 intelligent highways will be in use for long-distance travel, letting cars drive themselves once their guidance systems lock onto roadway sensors.
Inaccurate ●●●●●
“Intelligent roads are in use, primarily for long-distance travel. Once your car's computer guidance system locks onto the control sensors on one of these highways, you can sit back and relax.”
- Said on
- 1 January 1999 · Prediction for 2009 (business and economics section) from The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), as quoted in his 2010 self-review "How My Predictions Are Faring".
- Source
- How My Predictions Are Faring (October 2010) · The Kurzweil Library
- Should come true
- 2009
- How sure they sounded
- none (stated as fact about 2009)
- Categories
- Self-drivingTechnology
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Automated highway driving would transform the transport industry and road safety in a country.
Outcome
Inaccurate
No public highways with sensor-guided hands-off driving were in use in 2009; autonomous driving existed only as research demos such as the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges (2004-2007). Kurzweil's own 2010 review grades this "Wrong (about ten years off)", and sensor-equipped automated highways have still not been deployed.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
- https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/images/How-My-Predictions-Are-Faring.pdf
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