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Google demos driverless cars

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Re: Google demos driverless cars

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Post by moblivu »

If applied correctly this could solved a lot of traffic problem. I still don't understand why cars don't have a retractable bar under them. So you normally drive everywhere, but big roads like highways are in fact rails where your car gets on.

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Post by endtime »

Tight turns look cool, but they're not especially useful. When they can demonstrate robust resilience to pedestrians, consistently don't think a bird or pebble flying in front of the car is another car, etc., then we'll have something to celebrate.

I'm not saying they're not a lot of the way there already - they probably are - I'm just saying that that's the demo video that would be really exciting.

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Post by zitterbewegung »

staunch wrote: post #4
zitterbewegung wrote: post #2

I would really like this on top gear and compare it to the other drivers on their closed course. I wonder how well it would do in their celebrity challenge that they do every episode?

If tuned to a single track it should be completely unbeatable, right?

Not necessarily there might be latency concerns or even other unknown factors that would hinder it. Also what if its wet or other weather concerns? I don't work on the project so I wouldn't know what exactly would be involved.

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Post by sharmajai »

MikeHo wrote: post #3
zitterbewegung wrote: post #2

I would really like this on top gear and compare it to the other drivers on their closed course. I wonder how well it would do in their celebrity challenge that they do every episode?

That Prius corners pretty mean ...

Ahh so the all the recalled priuses were actually alpha versions of google's self driving cars. I see.
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