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Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs?
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to this long article from EE Times about the 'Self-Navigating Vehicle,' the answer is a resounding yes. Many car experts think that autonomous vehicles which avoid collisions and communicate wirelessly with other cars will be the norm in two to three decades. In the meantime, the enabling technologies for self-navigating cars are emerging, from sensors embedded in the brake or accelerator pedals to more powerful computers. Already, partial solutions exist for adaptive cruise control or for staying in a highway lane. One day, we'll be able to do something else than driving our cars through traffic jams, saving us about two hours per working day. This is the future that engineers are building, but will you accept to be driven by your car? So many people like driving that the concept of a completely autonomous car might be delayed for psychological reasons, not technical ones. This summary contains selected details of the original article."
it's been around for years and it cost under $2 a ride
How could they wreck such a large industry! Do the cars have no feeling? No sense of right and wrong? Stupid cars! I say that we enact legislation to protect this industry vital to the nations industries.
Hurricane Ivan: A 17th century prison collapsed. All of the inmates escaped.
They don't let me fly the plane, or drive the train or Trailways. I would give up driving my car in a second, and get back to the important stuff like drinking and smoking pot.
Take an '83 Monte Carlo on a snowy/icy road, and pretty soon the car will be going all by itself, ignoring all user input "suggestions"...
Not that bad once you get used to it, really.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I don't want my car to drive me on the highway but I would love it if it could drop me off a the curb, go park and pick me up when I push a button. Automatic Valet!
It was a good sandwhich too. Too bad the rescue crew pulled me out before I could eat the second half.
Hurricane Ivan: A 17th century prison collapsed. All of the inmates escaped.
At least it's not the #1 cause of a traffic accident.
My other processor is big-endian.
It helps to be making the right sandwich
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
And stay peeved for the rest of your life.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
I want to die like my granddad, peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming and carrying on like the people in the car he was driving.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
I thought a bunch of cars following each other automatically with a high degree of safety at high speed was a train.
The train cabs can't move off the rails. But PRT - private rapid transit - can.
Build your own energy sources from scratch. http://otherpower.com/
They were called "trains."
-- I am. Therefore, I think!
So...who's delivering the traffic jams to you?
tired of online ads?
That's called a train.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
And that reason is: to give George Carlin something to carp about. Why isn't it called a near hit? If you had nearly hit something, you'd have missed it. On the other hand, if you nearly missed something, doesn't that mean you hit it?
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
If bandwidth gets cheap enough, then driving could perhaps be offshored also. 4 people could moniter each side: front, back, left, right. That is better than most of us can do even while awake and alert. There have been multiple times where I look left only to have something sneak up on the right.
However, there may be something like a 1/4 second delay for the signal to travel all the way around the world and back.
Table-ized A.I.