Or just buy a self driving vacuum and you have a self driving vehicle in your own home. It isn't nearly as impressive when you remove traffic etc from the equation though.
home has likely more (pedestrian) traffic than farm field
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#12I'm really surprised autonomous recreational boats are not something yet. There are plenty of canals and rivers with day boats and holiday boats going about slowly around the 3-6mph speed limits which would make ideal candidates as this is a very limited contained environment. At the very least the insurance companies could be insisting on some sort of crash avoidance guidance/control system to avoid boats from getting damaged whilst protecting riverside property.
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#13I'm really surprised autonomous recreational boats are not something yet. There are plenty of canals and rivers with day boats and holiday boats going about slowly around the 3-6mph speed limits which would make ideal candidates as this is a very limited contained environment. At the very least the insurance companies could be insisting on some sort of crash avoidance guidance/control system to avoid boats from getti…
Isn’t the point of recreational boating that you drive it yourself? Like with turning the meats when barbecuing? We daddies need something important to do. :)
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#14I'm really surprised autonomous recreational boats are not something yet. There are plenty of canals and rivers with day boats and holiday boats going about slowly around the 3-6mph speed limits which would make ideal candidates as this is a very limited contained environment. At the very least the insurance companies could be insisting on some sort of crash avoidance guidance/control system to avoid boats from getti…
Isn’t the point of recreational boating that you drive it yourself? Like with turning the meats when barbecuing? We daddies need something important to do. :)
You arent allowed to drink and drive and when people go on a boating holiday that becomes inevitable. Besides it can get quite boring pottering around at 3-6mph on a canal or river, the novelty can wear off quickly especially if its raining and you have to stand at the back steering a canal boat. So why not have some sort of autonomous guidance system? At least it can become more pleasant in bad weather and opens up the holiday season a bit more for those who are happy to sit inside and see the world go by from the comfort of the inside of the boat.
In a way, its why coach/bus holidays exist, the tour guide on the coach points out the sights whilst you relax in the comfort of your own seat, but having your own space, like a boat can also it make it relaxing especially if you dont want to be around other people. A coach holiday can still feel like a train commute into London, but with a seat.
Another area of development which the car manufacturers might want to develop, is radio controlled cars kits with active suspension and aerodynamics with some sort of AI/coding control. Like a Formula1 championship but radio controlled model cars. It could sow those seeds for kids to learn to code and then test their code on a race circuit.
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#15This is part of the general trend in robots summed up roughly like: 1. Corporations want to save money and are willing to spend up front for it. People will replace personal vehicles far more slowly. 2. A restricted environment is way easier to engineer a robot for vs. arbitrary environments. 3. It is easier to train workers about working around heavy machinery than to teach arbitrary humans to look both ways before…
A trend that has been going on for several decades.
https://www.automate.org/blogs/the-history-of-robotics-in-th...
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#16I'm really surprised autonomous recreational boats are not something yet. There are plenty of canals and rivers with day boats and holiday boats going about slowly around the 3-6mph speed limits which would make ideal candidates as this is a very limited contained environment. At the very least the insurance companies could be insisting on some sort of crash avoidance guidance/control system to avoid boats from getti…
Isn’t the point of recreational boating that you drive it yourself? Like with turning the meats when barbecuing? We daddies need something important to do. :)
Automated parking has already proven successful in personal vehicles so perhaps that technology could be applied to boats, both sail and motor?
Not everyone has the luxury of a bow thruster in tight spaces!
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#17There are luckily many developements in the space. One I found particularly interesting: https://pixelfarmingrobotics.com/robot-one
I think/hope thefuture of agriculture is in diverse cropping & mechanical weed removal by light autonomous machines
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#18Alternatively, take one of many fully autonomous trains.
We already have driverless vehicles, it's just that cars are downright bad, more or less.
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#19Or just buy a self driving vacuum and you have a self driving vehicle in your own home. It isn't nearly as impressive when you remove traffic etc from the equation though.
home has likely more (pedestrian) traffic than farm field
If my Roborock weighed 7 tons and was the size of a tractor I'd probably have been crushed to death by now.
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#20I never want to be in a 'driverless vehicle'. I want control and I want to drive myself.
But I don't want to driving a vehicle on the same road I am on. Well, not exactly you but, you know, those idiots.
What is your opinion on the societal effects of this lack of trust? This default trust on computer systems undermine trust in other humans. How can we hope to live in a community we do not trust? Why would i take into consideration X opinion on foreign trade if this "computer" thing is likely to be less wrong?