I'd love to live in a world where roads were full of auto-driving electric cars that automatically went to recharge and were replaced by fleet cars, and stopped at various points for people to load up. Like personal, on demand busses.
Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
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Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#12I kind of wonder how Google's driverless car handles the situation in extremely populous cities such as Shanghai or HongKong.
That's part of what I'd like to see more. - scalability cases : many many moving obstacles. - reversal cases : gCar behavior if a vehicle is misbehaving. What happens ? can they compute a safe avoidance path ? if not but with impact still being detected in advance by the system, can there be a pre-protection system ? - systemic cases : how 2 gCars react to each others, any oscillatory patterns ? computing a path usin…
Forgive me, but could you reformat that? In Firefox, the code-ified view of your text is taxing to read. It has an unpleasant scroll bar and I forget what I've read by the time I get halfway through it, since I can't see it.
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are suggesting human's will run into it more often right? I sincerely doubt we will see too many autonomous-car-at-fault crashes. The blacked out Lexus SUV's I saw at a Google event a few weeks ago were very discrete minus the velodyne sensor. If it adds an credibility I was on a team at the Victorville final in 2007. :) As an aside, I've been waiting to buy my Google car for 5 long years. During this time I've b…
Will you be OK with google tracking everywhere you go and serving you ads for every shop you pass?
Good evening, John Anderton. Routing you to the pre-crime facility for detainment.
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are suggesting human's will run into it more often right? I sincerely doubt we will see too many autonomous-car-at-fault crashes. The blacked out Lexus SUV's I saw at a Google event a few weeks ago were very discrete minus the velodyne sensor. If it adds an credibility I was on a team at the Victorville final in 2007. :) As an aside, I've been waiting to buy my Google car for 5 long years. During this time I've b…
Will you be OK with google tracking everywhere you go and serving you ads for every shop you pass?
You don't really need ads for the shops you're already passing.
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#15This was the easy part. The hard part will be fighting the technophobes when somebody drives into the side of one of these and kills themselves. I don't envy being in that battle.
I would bet they can reconstruct the entire environment through their LIDAR records, play by play, and show the events leading up to the collision.
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are suggesting human's will run into it more often right? I sincerely doubt we will see too many autonomous-car-at-fault crashes. The blacked out Lexus SUV's I saw at a Google event a few weeks ago were very discrete minus the velodyne sensor. If it adds an credibility I was on a team at the Victorville final in 2007. :) As an aside, I've been waiting to buy my Google car for 5 long years. During this time I've b…
Will you be OK with google tracking everywhere you go and serving you ads for every shop you pass?
Hopefully I'll be wearing my google glass too! So, I guess so.
True privacy is very hard. You could set up a camera to read plates at some choice points and know the whereabouts of most of the people in your city. If you want to do something privately you have to act deliberately in this day and age.
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#17It's probably a bit misleading. The car is pretty eye catching: http://www.vibe.com/sites/vibe.com/files/styles/main_image/p... So it gets attention...and most accidents happen when people don't pay attention. Once these become more common, it won't be a huge deal, so people will stop noticing them and accident rates will go up. Probably not by much, since you'd eliminate most of the driver caused accidents
You are suggesting human's will run into it more often right? I sincerely doubt we will see too many autonomous-car-at-fault crashes. The blacked out Lexus SUV's I saw at a Google event a few weeks ago were very discrete minus the velodyne sensor. If it adds an credibility I was on a team at the Victorville final in 2007. :) As an aside, I've been waiting to buy my Google car for 5 long years. During this time I've b…
Commuting does kind of suck if you're trying to roll in during rush hour. But without super-heavy traffic I find driving to be rather enjoyable in itself. Even more so if you're riding a motorcycle :) Perhaps the problem is not commuting, but the fact that many companies want their employees at work at 9:00 and out of work at 5:00?
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#18I would love to see google incorporate the efforts of SARTRE, a system of caravaning cars on highways for reduced drag: http://www.sartre-project.eu/en/Sidor/default.aspx
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's part of what I'd like to see more. - scalability cases : many many moving obstacles. - reversal cases : gCar behavior if a vehicle is misbehaving. What happens ? can they compute a safe avoidance path ? if not but with impact still being detected in advance by the system, can there be a pre-protection system ? - systemic cases : how 2 gCars react to each others, any oscillatory patterns ? computing a path usin…
Forgive me, but could you reformat that? In Firefox, the code-ified view of your text is taxing to read. It has an unpleasant scroll bar and I forget what I've read by the time I get halfway through it, since I can't see it.
Right, made it a fair bit more readable now. I'm difficult to read anyway.
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#20Put another way, Google's Autonomous cars complete less than half of the total daily commute of a small metropolitan workforce.
That's not a lot of miles, but the fact that they've done it completely without accident is relatively impressive.