{"id":14746,"date":"2014-05-31T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/google-self-drive-car-serious-competitive-threat\/"},"modified":"2014-05-31T10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T10:05:24","slug":"google-self-drive-car-serious-competitive-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/google-self-drive-car-serious-competitive-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Self Drive Car.\u2018Serious Competitive Threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Google Inc. could become a \u201cserious competitive threat\u201d to the auto industry if it continues to push its self-driving cars, said Mark Reuss, product-development chief at General Motors Co.}}<\/p>\n

GM, which is developing its own autonomous vehicle technology, isn\u2019t in a race with Google to create driverless cars, he told reporters yesterday in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Google announced May 27 that it plans to deploy at least 100 fully autonomous vehicles that it designed in tests starting this year. <\/p>\n

The two-seat cars will have a top speed of 25 miles (40 kilometers) per hour and no steering wheel. The Mountain View, California-based company previously had been testing its technology in other vehicles, such as Toyota Motor Corp.\u2019s Prius.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody can do anything with enough time and money,\u201d Reuss said. \u201cIf they set their mind to it, I have no doubt\u201d that they could become \u201ca very serious competitive threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

GM demonstrated last year what it calls Super Cruise technology, which will support semi-automated driving features including hands-off lane following, braking and speed control under certain conditions. <\/p>\n

GM also has an autonomous vehicle project called EN-V that it\u2019s been developing in China. The soda machine-sized pods don\u2019t look like normal cars.<\/p>\n

{{Creeping Change}}<\/p>\n

The industry will phase in autonomous vehicles over years, Reuss said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a creep, it\u2019s not going to be a mind- bending thing,\u201d Reuss said. \u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see an autonomous vehicle take over the city anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reuss, saying he\u2019s only seen Google\u2019s little car in a photograph, described it as \u201ckind of cool\u201d adding that it looked similar to an old Volkswagen Beetle.<\/p>\n

Over the next two decades, self-driving cars are going to get a bigger share of the market. Such vehicles will reach 11.8 million in 2035, according to Egil Juliussen, an analyst at IHS Automotive. <\/p>\n

And by 2050, he expects almost all cars to become self-driving. They are estimated to fetch premiums that will start at $7,000 to $10,000 in 2025, he said.<\/p>\n

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{{Google Inc. could become a \u201cserious competitive threat\u201d to the auto industry if it continues to push its self-driving cars, said Mark Reuss, product-development chief at General Motors Co.}} GM, which is developing its own autonomous vehicle technology, isn\u2019t in a race with Google to create driverless cars, he told reporters yesterday in Detroit. Google […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000052481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[99],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000052481,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14746.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14746.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14746.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14746.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14746.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14746.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}