The return to lane feature only works if you start to drift into the other lane, not if you actively turn into the other lane, or supply any other common control input to let the system know you are in fact paying attention.
This sounds good, but it must WORK.
Its not too hard to distinguish an alert driver at the wheel from someone nodding off, because a normal driver supplies 10 to 30 small control movements to the steering wheel per minute (Steering Reversal Rate), and these are typically Greater than 2 degrees and less than 6 degrees regardless of road curvature or lack there of. Once this rate falls to less than 5 reversals per minute, the car's computer can assume from this single measurement alone that the driver is getting drowsy, and when there are almost no reversals at all, that the driver has fallen asleep.
That sounds good too, if it works. Billions of us humans use these vehicles to engage in random activity that resembles organized movement. I want to know how many vehicles have used this protocol, how many accidents they have had, and how many have been reported as "vehicle error" before I will consider buying a vehicle with this option. The command protocol to help correct 'deficient' driving behavior described by icebike sounds sane when I read it here on Slashdot, but the idea of any situation where my vehicle fails to respond to my commands when I am DRIVING MY CAR I believe is VERY dangerous to me and the other meatbags around me.
So the mere presence of control frequent movements on the wheel would sufficient to distinguish an intentional lane cross from an unintentional one.
If not, people die.
There is a large amount of research already available on the web about his stuff. Google steering wheel reversal rate. This stuff has been known and measured for decades.
Does the hardware support the protocol to the level of trust required to mass produce? We shall see.
This technology sounds promising, but I won't buy one yet. I need to see how those early adopter Ford Fusion autopilots do first. And I'll be watching every new Fusion extra careful from now on....
... to make things work. That's what they are paying you for. If it was me, I'd count the coding experience as just that, experience. If you decide you want to look for a better paying job, you will have something to add to your resume and a good recommendation from your previous employer.
Enforcement would be better than what we have now, but what happens when Chinese patents duplicate US patents? If this is an issue, it may do more to push American business to move manufacturing back to America than the current patent anarchy will.
Could there be a Dirty Jobs iPhone manufacturing episode in our future?
The problem is you can't stop the money by setting limits like that. Check out Jack Abramoff and Norman Hsu. The political class is as clever as they are greedy.
I agree, it is way to easy to buy a politician these days with all the green floating around. I don't think the pols wonder why. I believe incumbent politicians love it when people don't vote...
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I think the question to ask the TSA folks is "Am I being detained, if so for what?" Otherwise I'll be on my way.
Now we just need a Rosa Parks type and a camera crew to viral video this issue.
Absolutely right. Squatting illegally is not free speech.
Does this make them eligible for US $(green) giveaways?
I blame the Human latency problem for the fact that nobody has linked the solution yet...
The return to lane feature only works if you start to drift into the other lane, not if you actively turn into the other lane, or supply any other common control input to let the system know you are in fact paying attention.
This sounds good, but it must WORK.
Its not too hard to distinguish an alert driver at the wheel from someone nodding off, because a normal driver supplies 10 to 30 small control movements to the steering wheel per minute (Steering Reversal Rate), and these are typically Greater than 2 degrees and less than 6 degrees regardless of road curvature or lack there of. Once this rate falls to less than 5 reversals per minute, the car's computer can assume from this single measurement alone that the driver is getting drowsy, and when there are almost no reversals at all, that the driver has fallen asleep.
That sounds good too, if it works. Billions of us humans use these vehicles to engage in random activity that resembles organized movement. I want to know how many vehicles have used this protocol, how many accidents they have had, and how many have been reported as "vehicle error" before I will consider buying a vehicle with this option. The command protocol to help correct 'deficient' driving behavior described by icebike sounds sane when I read it here on Slashdot, but the idea of any situation where my vehicle fails to respond to my commands when I am DRIVING MY CAR I believe is VERY dangerous to me and the other meatbags around me.
So the mere presence of control frequent movements on the wheel would sufficient to distinguish an intentional lane cross from an unintentional one.
If not, people die.
There is a large amount of research already available on the web about his stuff. Google steering wheel reversal rate. This stuff has been known and measured for decades.
Does the hardware support the protocol to the level of trust required to mass produce? We shall see.
This technology sounds promising, but I won't buy one yet. I need to see how those early adopter Ford Fusion autopilots do first. And I'll be watching every new Fusion extra careful from now on....
...I've gone and confused my idioms.
Your ignorance proves you're too lazy to google "climate change raw data", but doesn't prove that the IPCC broke some as-yet-unspecified law.
Lol. Why don't you Google it. Link the published data and methods, or stop wasting my time...
Put up or shut up.
If you can find them, you'll be famous...
Where is the data and methods the IPCC relied upon published?
You know, the stuff we paid for...
Why not? Who is more authoritative, and why?
wattsupwiththat is. They don't illegally hide their data or methods like the IPCC does.
Duh...
And post modded Troll. Sheesh. It's like some folks don't want to hear anything that challenges their religion...
Why mod this post Troll?
... to make things work. That's what they are paying you for. If it was me, I'd count the coding experience as just that, experience. If you decide you want to look for a better paying job, you will have something to add to your resume and a good recommendation from your previous employer.
When part of the funding goes to "science" like the crony BS churned out by the IPCC, I don't see spending cuts as all bad.
Politically driven science is not science, it's politics.
Enforcement would be better than what we have now, but what happens when Chinese patents duplicate US patents? If this is an issue, it may do more to push American business to move manufacturing back to America than the current patent anarchy will.
Could there be a Dirty Jobs iPhone manufacturing episode in our future?
20 years ago.
I am so glad to see *nix become a standard.
Bring on the voice activated TVs...
The problem is you can't stop the money by setting limits like that. Check out Jack Abramoff and Norman Hsu. The political class is as clever as they are greedy.
Amen Dish!
I'll bet it would look that sweet if you were wearing Geordi La Forge's visor...
You're fired...
I agree, it is way to easy to buy a politician these days with all the green floating around. I don't think the pols wonder why. I believe incumbent politicians love it when people don't vote...
Lol, I forgot about that!
Let's hope it makes spaceflight affordable b4 I am too old to launch...
All your Mosque, are belong to us...
That isn't capitalism, it's Crony Capitalism. Our political class has become so corrupt they can't even see the problem.
Nerves communicate via electrons. Light would have to be tranceived into electrons at each end...