Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
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Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
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Re: Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
#2So far Google's self-driving cars have been designed to have the driver take over in certain situations. I wonder how that works without a steering wheel and pedals. Are the cars manually drivable at all?
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#3So far Google's self-driving cars have been designed to have the driver take over in certain situations. I wonder how that works without a steering wheel and pedals. Are the cars manually drivable at all?
Looks like they are.
"We’re planning to build about a hundred prototype vehicles, and later this summer, our safety drivers will start testing early versions of these vehicles that have manual controls."
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#4Given that they're capped at 25 mph, these are legally "low-speed vehicles", not cars, which means they're way less regulated.
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#5So far Google's self-driving cars have been designed to have the driver take over in certain situations. I wonder how that works without a steering wheel and pedals. Are the cars manually drivable at all?
Looks like they are. "We’re planning to build about a hundred prototype vehicles, and later this summer, our safety drivers will start testing early versions of these vehicles that have manual controls."
That implies that the prototypes will have manual controls, but the production versions will not.
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#6So far Google's self-driving cars have been designed to have the driver take over in certain situations. I wonder how that works without a steering wheel and pedals. Are the cars manually drivable at all?
From a UI perspective if they rarely need manual control you can use a less ergonomic option. Such as a joystick which would be a pain for regular use but would take up less space and still provide plenty of control for situations like parking in a field for a concert and or a quick emergency override in case something goes wrong.
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#7So far Google's self-driving cars have been designed to have the driver take over in certain situations. I wonder how that works without a steering wheel and pedals. Are the cars manually drivable at all?
Yes, that's is a very interesting point. I would think that, long term, the only manual control a self driving car really needs is a "kill switch." How long will it be after self-driving tech goes mainstream until people simply don't know who to drive?
I can see my kids now, "I remember when I was a kid, my mom/dad actually had to control the automobile. Archaic!"
Not too long ago my friend's son asked me why my phone was attached to the wall. He had only ever known cordless phones. I image cars will go a similar route.
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#8When the man with glasses gives his perspective, the enablement hits you. If you've any humanity, you feel the potential this technology brings to so many.
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#9I bet it's written in GO language... LOL for when the car breaks don't work... just like in TOYOTA
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#10I think the biggest news was this sentence:
If all goes well, we’d like to run a small pilot program here in California in the next couple of years.