"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
11/03/2014 at 07:20 • Filed to: None
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
11/03/2014 at 07:20 • Filed to: None | 0
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Here is an excerpt from an article I read in the National Post: "Another problem with maps is that once you make them, you have to keep them up to date, a challenge Google says it hasn't yet started working on. Considering all the traffic signals, stop signs, lane markings, and crosswalks that get added or removed every day throughout the country, keeping a gigantic database of maps current is vastly difficult. Safety is at stake here; Chris Urmson, director of the Google car team, told me that if the car came across a traffic signal not on its map, it could potentially run a red light, simply because it wouldn't know to look for the signal. Urmson added, however, that an unmapped traffic signal would be "very unlikely," because during the "time and construction" needed to build a traffic signal, there would be adequate opportunity to add it to the map.
But not always. Scott Heydt, director of marketing at Horizon Signal Technologies, says his company routinely sets up its portable traffic signals at road construction sites. Frequently, they are simply towed to a site and turned on. "We just set one up like that in New Jersey," said Heydt....
TL DR summary: Driving aids in cars, yes (for example self parking and adapting cruise control) Autonomous cars: Not likely in the near future.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> thebigbossyboss
11/03/2014 at 07:47 |
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But that's why we have cameras. Is this guy fucking serious?
We already have vehicles that are capable of reading speed limit signs and then presenting that information to you via the HUD; if they don't already have the most up to date speed limit information in their databases.
Not to mention the advent of mesh networking where cars communicate between other vehicles as well as the actual traffic infrastructure itself.
There isn't only one sacrosanct way for a self-driving car to operate. I expect better out of a journalist.
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> spanfucker retire bitch
11/03/2014 at 08:00 |
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"I expect better out of a journalist"
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thebigbossyboss
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/03/2014 at 08:02 |
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Lol you don't even know.
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thebigbossyboss
> spanfucker retire bitch
11/03/2014 at 08:09 |
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I dunno. He raises an interesting point though, one that I once considered while watching some ridiculously improbable accident on a Russian dash cam.
The accident was some guy on a motorcycle crashing into a car doing a flip and landing on his feet on the cars roof.
The probability of that accident occurring and him sticking a landing on the roof is absolutely zero.
And yet it happened anyways. So an occurrence which may be extremely unlikely to occur to any one person happens often in the aggregate since there is hundreds of millions of vehicles on the road.
The margin for error in this regard is really really low. It's only going to take a few deaths to generate a massive response from either the government or regulators.
Just look at drones. The FAA isn't sure how to handle them, so they banned all commercial usage.
There is nothing inevitable about the self driving car. We still don't really have "domestic servant robots" and how long has that pie been in the sky?
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spanfucker retire bitch
> thebigbossyboss
11/03/2014 at 08:25 |
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It's absolutely inevitable. We already have prototype cars that are capable of driving themselves. Even without ANY upgrades to the road infrastructure that they drive on. We have cameras that are designed to see road signs, lines in the road, radar for detecting the speed and distance of cars in front, behind and to the side of our vehicles.
All the electronic driver aids we have today are literally just a stepping stone away from full autonomy. And these are just autonomous capabilities that don't take into account any other concurrent advances.
Mesh networking is being worked on by just about every major automaker in the world right now. If a standardized process is ever developed, every vehicle will be able to wirelessly and instantly communicate with others on the road. They'll know when there's an accident. They'll know when a light is about to change. They'll know when the roads are slick and when inclement weather is occurring up ahead along the predetermined route.
Everyone seems to think that the only way that autonomous driving cars will be a thing is if they're perfect. That they're 100% completely flawlessly in every single way. I have news for you, that won't be the case at all. All you need is for them to better than the vast majority of drivers that are currently on the roads. The ones that don't use signals, the ones that tailgate you incessantly, the ones that brake check you, the ones that go below the speed limit in the passing lane, the ones that intentionally run red lights.
If you can develop a system that is better than all of those drivers, that's all you'll need to get approval. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.