Self Driving Motorhomes
Well we all have heard of Google self driving cars, semis/tractor trailers are being tested as self driving today with success, the military has tested self driving trucks with success and they say by...
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powderman426 wrote:
I see no real difference between an rv and a car except size. Autonomous vehicles would greatly reduce the number and severity of accidents as well as reducing the need for more lanes as they could safely travel at close range. It's coming and it's going to be great.
I think this is all true, if all the vehicles on the road were computer controlled. I think if you have a mix of human drivers and computer drivers sharing the same road there will be many problems. For example lets say you're driving along the freeway in your computer controlled vehicle in heavy traffic and a tumbleweed blows across the road in front of you. A human driver can weigh the option of hitting the breaks and potentially causing a rear end accident, or just hitting the tumbleweed that likely won't damage the car anyway. What is the computer going to do? Will the sensor be so good that they can tell it's okay to hit the tumbleweed or are they going to swerve the car or brake it? Now if all the cars were computer controlled it wouldn't matter because they would all sense the tumbleweed or sense the braking car and would all avoid hitting each other.
