Driverless Cars

[Gale Hawkins]

More data points the better AI software performance.

When a vehicles are fully aware of the other vehicles the software may prevent accidents before they can occur. If someone is coming to your house you could be told the arrival time. The Life360 software has some of these features today.

 

[3930dave]

Tech can deliver useful, even fantastic, results at times.

Detached from those accomplishments, is a major theme running through a lot of business today.

For many corporations, we aren't really the consumers anymore, but rather the product.....

Facebook and Silicon Valley Are Colluding to Profit From Your Personal Data - Motherboard

At times I find some tech useful. It's just that I'd rather not trade my life away, only to get a couple of baubles and trinkets....

Rgds, D.

 

[crazyal]

Woke up today to freezing rain/ hail. The roads were white so there's no way to see any markings. I dread the day of self driving cars being the norm as I can't see how they will ever be able to drive in these conditions. GPS would need to take a major step forward in accuracy. What that's going to mean is a bunch of people who rarely drive suddenly trying to in the worst conditions. Can't see how that would end in failure. Reminds me of something I read where the younger generations can't read the hands of a clock. All they've seen is digital displays so they had no need.

 

[LD48750]

Woke up today to freezing rain/ hail. The roads were white so there's no way to see any markings. I dread the day of self driving cars being the norm as I can't see how they will ever be able to drive in these conditions. GPS would need to take a major step forward in accuracy. What that's going to mean is a bunch of people who rarely drive suddenly trying to in the worst conditions. Can't see how that would end in failure. Reminds me of something I read where the younger generations can't read the hands of a clock. All they've seen is digital displays so they had no need.

Don't worry, the self driving plow trucks will have the roads clear before anybody has to go anywhere.

 

[metalbender]

Funny thing you mention the clock scenario. Went through that with my kids many years ago. Went to the teacher's store to buy a time telling clock face. It had the quarter after, half past and quarter to designations. The driverless thing wouldn't work well in a blizzard conditions, especially out here in the country. Picture a driverless school bus on a country road, be it mud or snow. Fail in my opinion. My son works in the oil patch in northern Alberta. There are quite a few autonomous haul trucks running in a designated area. When one truck has an issue, all production stops till they send out a troubleshooter crew to sort things out. I can just imagine the supervisors pulling their hair out when twenty trucks come to a grinding halt.

 

[cqaigy2]

Woke up today to freezing rain/ hail. The roads were white so there's no way to see any markings. I dread the day of self driving cars being the norm as I can't see how they will ever be able to drive in these conditions. GPS would need to take a major step forward in accuracy. What that's going to mean is a bunch of people who rarely drive suddenly trying to in the worst conditions. Can't see how that would end in failure. Reminds me of something I read where the younger generations can't read the hands of a clock. All they've seen is digital displays so they had no need.

I know what you mean, i had a few people driving down the middle of the road after it's snowed. Your driving on your side of the road,and they are driving down the middle, i stop on my side of the road and they continue on till they come to your stopped car. Then they sit there looking at you to figure out what the problem is. Obviously, their GPS is off. :laughing:

 

[Oaktree]

Woke up today to freezing rain/ hail. The roads were white so there's no way to see any markings. I dread the day of self driving cars being the norm as I can't see how they will ever be able to drive in these conditions.

What about just plain ol' dirt roads, or even state highways that were recently paved, but they haven't gotten around to repainting the lines yet? Some of those are tough enough to drive after dark for a good driver. Ditto for roads that have dried out after a snowstorm, but are almost totally white from the salt...can be pretty hard to make out the lines there too.

As I've said before, maybe self-driving cars make sense in cities or suburbia, especially where it doesn't snow but northern states, and/or out in the sticks not so much.

I even think a lot of this "driver assist" technology the automakers (and gov't) seem to be cramming down our throats will contribute to this, especially as drivers rely on it and not skill to drive, much as all wheel drive cars give a false sense of security in foul weather.

I know what you mean, i had a few people driving down the middle of the road after it's snowed. Your driving on your side of the road,and they are driving down the middle, i stop on my side of the road and they continue on till they come to your stopped car.

I've done that myself, especially during or just after a storm when it hasn't been well plowed yet. Beats drifting off the (barely visible) edge and into the ditch. Of course I pull to the right when someone's coming the other way.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Can't planes use auto pilot not requiring white stripes?

 

[bcp]

Can't planes use auto pilot not requiring white stripes?

But plans don't crash if they are off course by 3 feet.

Bruce

 

[LD48750]

Can't planes use auto pilot not requiring white stripes?

Ever see a plane land on a carrier at night using auto pilot?

In a storm?