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pianotuna wrote:
I was thinking more in terms of sleeping while traveling.
Yep. Sleep while you travel at night, arrive at your destination in the morning refreshed and ready to enjoy your vacation.filrupmark wrote:
DutchmenSport wrote:
Hiking Hunter wrote:
I wonder what a driverless vehicle does when it's GPS system says "turn right in 20 feet" and there's a corn field there?
A system is only as strong as it's weakest link!
My neighbor, who works on his family farm, you know, one of those multi-million dollar outfits, drives the tractors and combines (plows, seeds, and harvests) ... all by GPS.
He spends most of the winter months plotting the various fields they'll be working, loading the coordinates into their GPS, and then come spring, simply drive the tractors (or in the Fall) the combines to the fields, push the button, and they automatically drive themselves.... hand free!
Of course, those tractors cost near a million dollars each too!
It takes you to the cornfield :B
Ahhhhhh yes it does--so you can have corn on the cob for supper.- And what happens when someone hacks the system for a little mayhem?
DutchmenSport wrote:
Hiking Hunter wrote:
I wonder what a driverless vehicle does when it's GPS system says "turn right in 20 feet" and there's a corn field there?
A system is only as strong as it's weakest link!
My neighbor, who works on his family farm, you know, one of those multi-million dollar outfits, drives the tractors and combines (plows, seeds, and harvests) ... all by GPS.
He spends most of the winter months plotting the various fields they'll be working, loading the coordinates into their GPS, and then come spring, simply drive the tractors (or in the Fall) the combines to the fields, push the button, and they automatically drive themselves.... hand free!
Of course, those tractors cost near a million dollars each too!
It takes you to the cornfield :BDutch_12078 wrote:
Humans can kill each other by the thousands on the highways but a computer better not kill even one.
, autonomous vehicles won't approach 100% safety until all vehicles are autonomous and able to communicate with each other.- "My advice, is to wait until he gets out then drive off"
(A view of future car to car processor dirty tricks) Hiking Hunter wrote:
I wonder what a driverless vehicle does when it's GPS system says "turn right in 20 feet" and there's a corn field there?
A system is only as strong as it's weakest link!
Apparently Google's (now Waymo) autonomous cars manage those issues quite well. With over 4 million testing miles, and billions of miles of simulations, I'm only aware of one very minor (2 mph) fender bender while in autonomous mode while on a public roadway at around the 1.5 million mile mark. And even then, the test driver said he would have done the same thing the car did in the same situation.
I really believe though, autonomous vehicles won't approach 100% safety until all vehicles are autonomous and able to communicate with each other.Hiking Hunter wrote:
I wonder what a driverless vehicle does when it's GPS system says "turn right in 20 feet" and there's a corn field there?
A system is only as strong as it's weakest link!
You do understand that driverless cars are not simply a package that follows GPS instructions from some lady that lives inside the GPS?- I would have binoculars. Moot point anyway. The science is here, the nitwit failed lawyers are here, electric cars are mandated, barbecue lighter and battery chargers are banned...
--Brave new world. I'll stay down here and smirk pianotuna wrote:
I was thinking more in terms of sleeping while traveling.gbopp wrote:
Finally! While rolling down the road on cruise control, we can walk to the kitchen and make a sandwich. :B
I couldn't sleep while riding in a driverless vehicle. But that's me.
