Driverless Cars

[wheelbuilder]

My take on driverless cars is this, people are already making their car 'driverless' by not paying attention. At least knowing something like a computer Is making an effort to do the right things in a car can't be any worse than the other.

 

[BoneStock]

I’ve always been hesitant of DRIVERLESS anything. Our automated vacuum (Dyson 360 Eye), Toyota’s driverless equipment at their manufacturing plants, and the driver ASSIST for cars all have me thinking twice. I think assisting and certain scenarios for driverless is fine, but from house to work driverless (depending on your route) cars, just doesn’t seem possible or safe. Not in my lifetime...

 

[Jstpssng]

It will be interesting to revisit this thread in ten, or even 5 years.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

It will be interesting to revisit this thread in ten, or even 5 years.

Very much so.

 

[Oaktree]

the prius, like the chevy volt, can and do drive the wheels with the gas engine as well as elec motor.

So not truly a genset/battery/motor arrangement.

I'm not sure that's true. Everything I've read says the electric motor on the Volt drives the wheels and the gas engine is strictly for a generator.

 

[prof fate]

I'm not sure that's true. Everything I've read says the electric motor on the Volt drives the wheels and the gas engine is strictly for a generator.

GM: Yes, the Volt's gas engine can power the wheels - Autoblog

 

[3930dave]

Ok, T in TBN stands for tractor..... so I had to drop this in...... 2017 Case IH Quadtrac !

217 Case IH Quadtrac - Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube

For the "driverless" part, it's not actually shown in the video, but towards the end of the road test, the factory engineer talks a bit about the autonomous systems they have on these platforms, and alternative power sources they are testing.

Like most gearheads, Jay likes tractors..... being Winter, I've been watching a ridiculous # of Jay's videos lately...... something about tractors, brings out the 10 year old in all of us...... Jay enjoys himself in all these videos, but he spends more time smiling, laughing, and giggling in this one :thumbsup:

Rgds, D.

 

[prof fate]

Anyone here into big ag?

I see things on machinery pete and other shows where they talk about the GPS in hte big tractors and combines, part of the 'precision ag' these days.

How automated is it? How costly?

 

[Redneck in training]

Friend of mine used to own a company that applied fertilizer for farmers. The company sent a technician with Honda four wheeler with about $ 20000 of computer and GPS instrumentation mounted on it to the field. The tech would meander through the field taking a sample based on command from the computer about every 10 yards and placing them in a magazine. All the data about location of each sample was stored on a flash card. Later on the tech gave the samples and the flash card to the lab for analysis. The results were also stored on a flash card that was given to a driver of the machine applying the fertilizer. The machine entered the field at the point where the tech started to take samples. Then it meandered steered by the GPS computer through the field (following the track of the four wheeler) applying the fertilizer based on the lab results. The flash was given to the farmer who had a combine also with GPS storing data from the yield detector also on a flash card. The harvest data was then analyzed in a computer showing the farmer how much money he put in every spot on the field versus yield from the same spot.

 

[cqaigy2]

I'll say Wow.