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Hyundai To Release "Semi-Autonomous" Car This Year
jfruh writes While self-driving cars from Google and others remain in the prototype stage, Korean carmaker Hyundai intends to release a premium sedan called the Equus this year that includes self-driving features. While a car's ability to navigate complex urban environments on its own is still a ways off, the Equus will allow the driver to take their hands off the wheel and feet off the brakes during highway driving.
It starts some days, if it feels like it.
Im quite familiar with Hyundai's semi-autonymous technology as they pioneered it 30 some years ago. The vehicle was capable of fully automatic shutdowns. Headlights, turn signals, brakes, you name it and this car would take care of it. At one point the vehicle, obviously sensing some mortal danger or impending disaster, pro-actively jetissoned the clutch into a stream of highway traffic in what I can only assume to this day saved my life from a bond villains clutches.
Good people go to bed earlier.
From the people inside the car, the people in the cars in front, the cyclists riding on the shoulder, and the non-cautious pedestrians. A big pie with large pieces for everyone!
A new subtype of lawyers will be born: the self-driving car chasers.
Hyundais are so narcoleptically boring to drive they might as well just drive themselves and let the owner take a nap. Equally true for Toyota and Honda, even though Hyundai is Korean and the other two Japanese.
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Lane following in good weather on well marked restricted entry freeways is pretty simple these days. Please note all the qualifications in that statement.
Yea I'm going to trust Hyundai, lol. Every generation they (and their owners) seem to claim they've finally raised their quality bar, never seems to be the case. I suspect the autonomous car computer will fall out of the chassis due to rust eventually.
I like my cruise control plenty fine but I don't want anything taking my focus off the road. Not to mention if they take the Airbus theory of automation (automation knows better than pilot) rather than the Boeing theory of automation (pilot can override automation at any time), I won't even sit in one of these cars. Of course I've flown in an Airbus but airplanes have a lot better known (or at least consistent) set of conditions than cars do.
I have had 4 Hondas, and am now driving a 2013 Elantra.
Sorry, not close, Honda is still better quality. The ride, the smoothness of the engine, all better for Honda.
The Elantra with 30k mi has already seen problems that would have never been observed on a Honda product.
Is this the first car with this extent of automation? I'm totally geeking out about this. It seems like a bigger deal than everyone is letting on.
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Have gnu, will travel.
How can someone be sure that when the car is driving itself that it'll properly react to something that goes wrong? Let's say the system that follows the lane is fine but the system that is supposed to avoid sudden obstacles isn't. What can you do? How can you find out?
If you're driving down the highway with your foot on the brake, then you *need* one of these systems.
How long before people start going into whole foods parking lots and slashing tires of car models known to be self driving?
I have a new Subaru with their collision-avoidance system and by and large it's very nice, but its lane-boundary warning system can get ... confused by tar-patched road cracks and especially by rutted snow. Which is OK by me when it's just a warning but if the car decides to actually act on that it's going to be a wee bit exciting.
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The journey to autonomous vehicles will probably be bumpy. Yes there will be lawsuits, yes sometimes the technology will misperform. It is possible that by relieving the driver of too many duties you encourage complacence that causes more accidents (or at least accidents to occur at times other than they would have, even if others are avoided).
Likely how to deal with distracted semi-autonomous operators will evolve quickly.
I have a neighbor with early onset Parkinson's disease, it would seem a good idea for his driving to have some sort of semi-autonomous assistance (yes he is still driving). How about the elderly? It is all fine and good to be indignant about the possible threat these vehicles pose (during a relatively short adoption period). But what about for those whose independence hinges on this sort of assist?
Seems there are many who forbid any period of transition with a zero tolerance policy for any mishaps regardless of how many lives might be saved.
I also assume the major auto makers who will be rolling these things out have lots a legal council and are being best advised on how to do so without being sued into bankruptcy after the first accident. The future is autonomous vehicles and the only way to be around 10 years from now as a car manufacturer is to get on the bandwagon early – despite the litigation risks.
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Just today I saw this story Vegas woman gets $200 distracted driving ticket for applying lip balm at a red light. Apparently in Vegas the law is pretty vague, but strictly enforced.
“[The ordinance] states that when a person is operating a vehicle they must provide full attention to the driving so that it won’t render that action to be unsafe
So the big question is how would that law treat a car which drives itself? And how will cops make a decision whether behavior of the person in the drivers seat counts as distracted driving or is simply the person taking advantage of an autonomous mode? I can see a lot of people being pulled over and booked when they were not actually driving the car. And even if cops can recognize an autonomous car, how do they know what mode it was driving in?
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at least it seems that way observing the driving habits of those around me.
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Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Barely 30k miles on it in a decade++ now, & it's been GREAT (even reviewed well in "Top Gear" on the T.V. & here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... & he elevated that estimate to "VERY GOOD" in that link...as, close as I can quote from TOP GEAR his estimation was "This is a GOOD car, & I don't mean one for 20 grand, but just a good car!" by Richard Hammond (vs. an Acura Legend iirc)).
* I love the thing - fast as hell AND quick (I chose a 'stick' model vs. automatic + I replaced the 1 part I know of they made a 'mistake' on, in a 2 piece clutch assembly, going with an aftermarket SINGLE design that had no such issues).
Since I went out of warranty, I put on a cold-air intake + TRUE Dual Exhaust & she got better on mileage AND low-end power too - best things you can do to these 'rice-rockets' for the money/best bang for the buck imo & experience!
(Put her up to 145mph before, NO sweat...)
APK
P.S.=> I've owned my share of "hotrods" & "sportscars" in my day, & ONLY other one I like more? A 1972 Chevelle SS I had (it was a BRUTE, but lousy on gas mileage)... apk
And I had driven nothing but Hondas all my life until they were butchered which led me to get a Hyundai. I got the car specifically because it felt and drove the way Hondas used to be.
Maybe you got a bad car but the ride, engine smoothness, etc in my Hyundai is superb.
It was cheaper, so the value is there, but they have a few years to go on the engineering.
Highway driving, especially at night, is wonderful for drowsy drivers. Give the option to not even do anything and they will soon be fast asleep as the car barrels down the highway.
Miss an exit? Run out of gas? How will the car know when to wake the driver up if they aren't doing anything?
I'm sure they thought of this, but it does seem like a possible trouble point.
My exit is in ten miles... I'll just close my eyes for a bit... And then 200 miles later...
These kind of features might actually make people more aware while driving because they'll be so scared the car is going to make a mistake that they won't have time to goof around on their cell phone.
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Part of the definition is that robots have to make some decisions for themselves...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
feet off the brakes during highway driving.
Firstly - feet, plural?
Secondly, you don't usually need to have even one foot on the brake pedal. In fact, I think some cars even let you drive without a foot on the accelerator...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I have a 2013 Veloster.
It has a radio/mp3 player/whatever console in the center.
It won't resume playback of MP3s after the car resets (always begins at the beginning of the first track). It won't retain stereo settings. The clock loses minutes. The shuffle isn't random. Despite having at least a half dozen buttons and two knobs, it doesn't use any of them for UI interaction (always requires touch). A lot of the buttons (soft and hard) are about as far from the driver's reach as possible. The screen is way too bright at night even on its lowest setting and does not obey the dash light dimmer (neither do a few other controls). You can't turn the screen off and still play music.
The whole thing is running on a 2005 version of Windows CE.
It sucks. Chevy's equipment is way better, according to some rental cars I've had recently.
None. No hassles due to rustproofing applied @ purchase (after market) & solid as a rock - Jet Black Metallic paint, oem, kept washed + most importantly, waxed (good stuff, carnuba works for me).
(Think I made a mistake in my last post too - was it a 2 piece flywheel? I think so - not "2 piece clutch assembly" iirc (been many years since the repair)).
I've run it on Mobil 1 Synthetic & Purolator PURE1 filters (magnetic particle banded gets metal particles out better iirc) & it's been "babied" the entire time (only 30k miles/10 yr. old++ sportscar).
APK
P.S.=> I really like it - it's fun, above ALL else, good on gas too, yet fast & powerful (stick helps), + easy to insure (especially now due to age, but no miles!!!) - what's not to like, was a great buy... apk
Put a spike in the steering wheel.
I run my TradeSkillMaster routines for posting my auctions on World of Warcraft while I sit in traffic jams. You hate people like me but you can't do anything about it!
When was it that Hondas began to get "butchered"?
I ask a a current Honda driver who's going to have to get a new car soon.
My 07 civic SI runs great, but rattles and squeaks like a 50 year old pickup, even with all new suspension, bushings, tie rods, ball joints, bearings, control arm links, etc...