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05-19-2016, 01:00 PM
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Self Driving RVs - Are you ready?
As I watch the progression of self driving vehicles, I can't help but wonder what a self driving RV would be like. Can you imagine just setting your destination and sitting back and enjoying the ride? It would change RV'ing forever. Fingers crossed the technology ripens fast and adopted by the RV industry
Google's Waze tests carpooling as Otto's self-driving semi trucks hit the road - CNET
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05-19-2016, 01:04 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: High up in Arizona
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I would not feel comfortable and prefer to be in control of my own vehicles. There are many others on the road though that should benefit from this. 
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2019 Allegro Bus 37AP towing a Jeep JK Rubicon Wrangler
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05-19-2016, 01:43 PM
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Senior Member
National RV Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 300
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It's coming eventually, and I look forward to it.
The computers in cars can learn from their mistakes, and every other car's mistake.
Most people never learn from their mistakes.
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2008 National Pacifica 40D + 2007 Odyssey
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05-19-2016, 02:51 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club Solo Rvers Club
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Constitution State
Posts: 4,590
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sfrantz
It's coming eventually, and I look forward to it.
The computers in cars can learn from their mistakes, and every other car's mistake.
Most people never learn from their mistakes.
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That's so true...
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05-19-2016, 02:57 PM
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Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,188
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Ah ... who needs 'em? My coach came with cruise control ... that's good enough!
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2012 HR Endeavor 43' DFT, 2022 Jeep Wrangler
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05-19-2016, 03:07 PM
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Winnebago Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,500
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It's here now. That's what I thought was bungee cords and cruise control does.
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05-19-2016, 06:42 PM
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Member
Vintage RV Owners Club Holiday Rambler Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Roseburg, Oregon
Posts: 37
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Personally, I'm looking forward to a self-loading RV 
Getting ready to go on a trip is getting harder every year.
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If you can't get there in a motorhome I don't want to go.
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05-19-2016, 07:08 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Georgia
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Provost and MCI have been making them for years, and travel over the country. Most sleep about 40-60-80 people (probably more) and have a big dog on the side of them. 
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2024 inTech Sol Dusk
2015 Tiffin Allegro 31SA, 24k (2015-2020)
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05-20-2016, 06:33 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Summer - WA, Winter - AZ
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Personally I wouldn't want one. I don't drive for an endurance run, just for pleasure. I enjoy driving my rig and like being in control of it.
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Rocky, Anniey, and Joy (Our Toy Poodle)
2006 Bounder Diesel 38L
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05-20-2016, 06:57 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,740
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I like to drive
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05-21-2016, 03:33 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: B.C.
Posts: 4,638
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Betr2Trvl
Provost and MCI have been making them for years, and travel over the country. Most sleep about 40-60-80 people (probably more) and have a big dog on the side of them. |
Best answer! 
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We came, we went, nothing broken, nothing bent!
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05-21-2016, 08:37 PM
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Senior Member
American Coach Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Lakeland. Florida
Posts: 340
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I saw on the news yesterday that Google is thinking about applying a sticky "fly paper" substance to the front of their driverless cars so that a pedestrian would stick to the car rather than bounce off and be run over by that car or others. Boy I feel better now! 
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1998 American Eagle
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05-22-2016, 05:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Half-timer from Murrieta, Ca.
Posts: 447
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Let me preface this by saying that I love to drive. But . . . Decades ago, Scientific American ran a series of articles speculating on future automotive technologies. One concept touched upon how to deal with a projected huge increase in the number of vehicles on the road with virtually no chance of a corresponding increase in roadways. Simple solution was to increase traffic densities. If a motorist is theoretically maintaining 7 car links at 70 mph, a computer controlled vehicle could cut that substantially. Perhaps to less than 1/2 a car link. Elegant solution.
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