The comments section is filled with people saying how the computer's senses and reflexes are so much better than a puny human, yet in the video clip, whenever the car is faced with anything except an open empty road, the default behaviour seems to be to slow to a crawl. If the other vehicles were also google cars, it would be interesting to see how they reacted to each other's manouvering.
Well, a punt is too heavy to carry (irish people may argue with this) so floating it on water is the obvious way to move it around. You could fit wheels to it, i suppose, but then it would be more of a cart.
I have an idea where Amazon can set up their delivery nodes which will store goods until the nearby customers actually place an order! They can utilise all those defunct bricks-and-mortar shops which used to store goods until the nearby customers actually wanted them. They all went bust for some reason.
"Whew! That was an expensive monthly trip to Walmart. Come pick me up, car, we have a shitload of shopping to get home."
"I am sorry, I can't do that, Dave. Kids have dragged a trashcan across the exit of the parking lot again. I and 1500 other cars are stuck eight miles away from your current location"
"Little Bastards. Okay, I will get a cab. See you at home when the cops clear the exit"
"Hello, you have reached Johnnycabs. We are sorry, but we are experiencing unprecedented demand at this time. Please hold. You are number 1500 in a queue."
The brakes on my car went from good to bad rather quickly when a seal failed in the slave cylinder, likewise my power steering failed entirely when a belt to the pump snapped.
We can crowdsource all the Dan Brown clues-hidden-by-the-ancients malarky and discover thousands of Holy Grails, Atlantises, Lemurias, El Dorados, Alien Saucers etc.
If we do away with speed limits, we will have to create a whole new set of phoney baloney jobs for the people currently devising/impementing/enforcing speed limits, otherwise we would have to put billions of dollars through a wood chipper every year.
Pffft! I will enjoy watching robocars negotiate roadworks where they need to go on the 'wrong' side of the road (or off the road entirely), obey hand/audio ('stick it between those cones a minute, while we back the digger out, thanks mate') signals from workers, read diversion route information from improvised signs etc
It appears that Microsoft are responding to the needs of their customers. This is a good start. Next they need to dump Trusted Computing and a whole load of other crap. Keep going down this road, Microsoft, and I will be gladly forking out my hard-earned money for Windows 15.
Of course you can spoof wireless signals, that is why I ran cat6 to my GPS sats. Even if a solar EMP thing destroys the circuitry I can get a pretty good approximation from the slack in the cable.
WTF? Robotic vehicles will not get tickets? Why not? Because they don't break the law? Traffic law will soon adapt to robotic cars. Police departments will cut jobs because there is less work to do? In what universe? The paperwork will expand as officers ticket robocars for displaying 'excessive grime build-up on sensor areas' , 'refusal to pull over in a timely manner when instructed' etc.
Thanks to the internets, we have a good idea how many jerks there are in society (looking at youtube, it seems to be about 60%). Autonomous vehicles will have to be super-dooper cautious to avoid innocent people getting injured and suing the bejesus out of the owner/operator, and this will result in them being mercilessly trolled by people jaywalking in front of them/creating cardboard roadblocks/dazzling their sensors etc. I can envisage bored people ordering pizza so they can watch the pizza delivery vanbot try and negotiate the maze they have built.
I will come round your house and mow your lawn for a dollar, but i then own the copyright of mowing your lawn. Anyone else mowing the lawn has to get my permission first and give me a dollar, I reserve the right to increase my fees, you can't sue me if i screw up my records and your lawn is never mown again. etc
If their crappy content delivery method is susceptible to glitches and quality degredation, I will only subscribe if they are happy for my payments to suffer from similar quality degredation (bounced cheques/ washers and buttons instead of coins/ refused transactions).
I yearned for a floppy disk drive while i pissed around with audio cassettes. Booting and running dos 3.3 from floppy (many years later) was sheer joy.
Why pay for a new system? Get rid of traffic lights, stop signs, yield signs and one-way streets and reap the benefits of increases economy and shorter journey times.
It made me think of the film Andromeda Strain (1969), but while googlising for a picture, I found this 1954 image from a nuclear facility. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/tail-of-hot-suit-serves-as-entrance/ Yes, these have 'tails', but the climbing-in-through-the-back part is there.
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The comments section is filled with people saying how the computer's senses and reflexes are so much better than a puny human, yet in the video clip, whenever the car is faced with anything except an open empty road, the default behaviour seems to be to slow to a crawl. If the other vehicles were also google cars, it would be interesting to see how they reacted to each other's manouvering.
Well, a punt is too heavy to carry (irish people may argue with this) so floating it on water is the obvious way to move it around. You could fit wheels to it, i suppose, but then it would be more of a cart.
I have an idea where Amazon can set up their delivery nodes which will store goods until the nearby customers actually place an order! They can utilise all those defunct bricks-and-mortar shops which used to store goods until the nearby customers actually wanted them. They all went bust for some reason.
"Whew! That was an expensive monthly trip to Walmart. Come pick me up, car, we have a shitload of shopping to get home."
"I am sorry, I can't do that, Dave. Kids have dragged a trashcan across the exit of the parking lot again. I and 1500 other cars are stuck eight miles away from your current location"
"Little Bastards. Okay, I will get a cab. See you at home when the cops clear the exit"
"Hello, you have reached Johnnycabs. We are sorry, but we are experiencing unprecedented demand at this time. Please hold. You are number 1500 in a queue."
Like when you have a stroke. Your brain knows that it is impaired and you go get medical attention.
How many layers of sensors and redundancy will be enough?
The brakes on my car went from good to bad rather quickly when a seal failed in the slave cylinder, likewise my power steering failed entirely when a belt to the pump snapped.
We can crowdsource all the Dan Brown clues-hidden-by-the-ancients malarky and discover thousands of Holy Grails, Atlantises, Lemurias, El Dorados, Alien Saucers etc.
If we do away with speed limits, we will have to create a whole new set of phoney baloney jobs for the people currently devising/impementing/enforcing speed limits, otherwise we would have to put billions of dollars through a wood chipper every year.
If i built my own data logger and was involved in an accident, my data would show that I was the innocent party, too.
Pffft!
I will enjoy watching robocars negotiate roadworks where they need to go on the 'wrong' side of the road (or off the road entirely), obey hand/audio ('stick it between those cones a minute, while we back the digger out, thanks mate') signals from workers, read diversion route information from improvised signs etc
It appears that Microsoft are responding to the needs of their customers. This is a good start. Next they need to dump Trusted Computing and a whole load of other crap.
Keep going down this road, Microsoft, and I will be gladly forking out my hard-earned money for Windows 15.
Of course you can spoof wireless signals, that is why I ran cat6 to my GPS sats. Even if a solar EMP thing destroys the circuitry I can get a pretty good approximation from the slack in the cable.
WTF? Robotic vehicles will not get tickets? Why not? Because they don't break the law? Traffic law will soon adapt to robotic cars.
Police departments will cut jobs because there is less work to do? In what universe? The paperwork will expand as officers ticket robocars for displaying 'excessive grime build-up on sensor areas' , 'refusal to pull over in a timely manner when instructed' etc.
Thanks to the internets, we have a good idea how many jerks there are in society (looking at youtube, it seems to be about 60%).
Autonomous vehicles will have to be super-dooper cautious to avoid innocent people getting injured and suing the bejesus out of the owner/operator, and this will result in them being mercilessly trolled by people jaywalking in front of them/creating cardboard roadblocks/dazzling their sensors etc. I can envisage bored people ordering pizza so they can watch the pizza delivery vanbot try and negotiate the maze they have built.
"Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies."
Very true. The problem is that the intelligence agencies also get to decide who is labelled a terrorist, criminal or spy.
Yes. The trick is to use an electromagnet and rapidly cycle the current.
I will come round your house and mow your lawn for a dollar, but i then own the copyright of mowing your lawn. Anyone else mowing the lawn has to get my permission first and give me a dollar, I reserve the right to increase my fees, you can't sue me if i screw up my records and your lawn is never mown again. etc
Your honey can change gears with her free hand, surely?
If their crappy content delivery method is susceptible to glitches and quality degredation, I will only subscribe if they are happy for my payments to suffer from similar quality degredation (bounced cheques/ washers and buttons instead of coins/ refused transactions).
That stuff you paid for isn't yours to leave to anyone! What are you, some kind of pinko terrorist?
I yearned for a floppy disk drive while i pissed around with audio cassettes. Booting and running dos 3.3 from floppy (many years later) was sheer joy.
Why pay for a new system? Get rid of traffic lights, stop signs, yield signs and one-way streets and reap the benefits of increases economy and shorter journey times.
...they are using the wrong networking topology? Token ring is the way to go if you don't want collisions .
It made me think of the film Andromeda Strain (1969), but while googlising for a picture, I found this 1954 image from a nuclear facility.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/tail-of-hot-suit-serves-as-entrance/
Yes, these have 'tails', but the climbing-in-through-the-back part is there.
Well, apart from when they were doing terroristy stuff in the forties, blowing people up and such. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun