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...and that's where the advantage currently ends. ;)

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Currently, yes. Computer programs can't yet figure out how to get to somewhere, just how best to drive once a person tells them where they are going. DARPA's Urban Challenge shows that self driving cars are not here yet:

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp

OTOH, I would guess that the computer controlled BMW demonstrated on Top Gear drove the course faster than most of us could:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48...30i_shortfilms

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Cool, a picture:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....091022-539.jpg

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That looks more like a flight yoke than a joystick.

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Not what I envisioned at all. Thanks for the photo.

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i don't think that's the problem... my navi-computer tells ME how to get somewhere :)

here's your main problem and main field of research for "autonomous vehicles".

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Will we ever get to where computers can avoid potholes, and change the destination on the fly when one gas station has better advertised prices than another?

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Yes, but then we'll need to make sure that their positronic brains are imprinted with some rules.

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Fourth rule - cut off SUVs whenever possible.