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> Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles? Actually, no. There are many things I'm tired of waiting for in industrial manufacturing and engineering, and driverless vehicles are not really on that list. Even if I think about transportation challenges only, the need for human drivers is not even on my top 10 list of issues.
I 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.
Would be interesting if you could make this work similar to SolarCity. If own any plot of land, some company will give you a robot for free that will take care of planting seeds and harvesting the crops, and it'll pay for itself over time by taking some portion of the production.
I'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…
Canals (or at least narrow, shallow British-style canals) would be a surprisingly difficult environment to design an automated system for. Vessels whose awkward handling is heavily affected by highly variable wind, water depth and proximity to banks, overhanging branches, floating rubbish and interactions with other boats whose unpredictable behaviour is usually understood by talking to them. Given the delayed respon…
Deep sea autonomy should be a .. breeze (ha!). Last mile is obviously a different beast.
Maybe the trend to larger ships makes autonomy just not worth it. Crew cost is fairly marginal. AFAIK shipping is fairly legacy and regulation-bound, with captains filling in excels and emailing them daily to HQ.
EDIT: i recall a Norwegian cargo ferry doing a daily near- shore route. kudos to them
I'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…
You definitely wouldn't want to trust it for any place even slightly crowded though. On a big yacht you'll want to respond to changes quite quickly, and many of those automated collision detection systems are far from perfect.
Is there a non-"team green" solution that works well? With all the bad press about Deere these days (including a few HN comments from suppliers to Deere that revealed they deliberately ask for slightly tweaked parts to avoid being compatible with regular parts), I wonder if there's a suitable alternative.
Anyway, those who sell those products probably would also sell the autonomous technology as a service more than a one pay product. If those services are arriving in the car market I doubt that machinery industry would reject earning a periodical income in addition to machine sales.
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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.
The computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it.
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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.
Have you been getting good customer service since they switched to dehumanized, automated systems?
Freedom of right to unsupervised movement is as important as free speech in a free society IMO