Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden

Post by peteretep » Tue, May 06, 2014, 11:17 AM UTC

nigekelly wrote: post #170

Very interested in this space and how it will end up. We have a big emotional attachment to cars evidenced by the fact that the annual cost of taking taxis everywhere is probably cheaper than the annual costs of owning a car if you live in a city. NYC habitants have probably made this transition already. SO if we end up with self driving taxis then this form of transport will become ridiculously cheap as the driver's…

    > We have a big emotional attachment to cars evidenced by
    > the fact that the annual cost of taking taxis everywhere 
    > is probably cheaper than the annual costs of owning a
    > car if you live in a city

Post by dopamean » Tue, May 06, 2014, 12:52 PM UTC

malandrew wrote: post #155

augustl wrote: post #35

I own a 2013 XC60 and as a programmer, I'm amazed at how well their current automation works in practice. The car reads road signs to show me the current speed limit in the dash (actual OCR, not a GPS database). It works amazingly well, except when it's very dark in the winter. Adaptive cruise control flawlessly follows cars based on radar, even in somewhat dramatic full stops, e.g. when there's suddenly heavy traffi…

My gut feeling tells me that there should be a mandate that requires all safety software to be open-source and liberally licensed. Safety should be very much part of the commons and we all lose out when this type of software isn't shared freely. Building high quality safety software and sharing it with all car manufacturers wins way more brownie points in my book than using it as a selling point.

Post by dalke » Tue, May 06, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

ollebro wrote: post #165

dalke wrote: post #89

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I biked through one yesterday, in Trollhättan. If you do an image search for "flervägsstopp" you'll find several images, including this one which is specifically a four-way stop: http://www.trafikmagasinet.nu/art090503.htm . If you're more curious, see http://www.trafikverket.se/PageFiles/3038/komplett_slutrappo... , among others. That one talks about how they were tested out during the 1980s, and by 2007 there were…

We have a lot of them in Trollhättan. And roundabouts, holy shit the amount of roundabouts in this city.

Post by StavrosK » Tue, May 06, 2014, 2:18 PM UTC

throwaway7767 wrote: post #176

StavrosK wrote: post #6

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I was quite a fan of the manual transmission, but I got an automatic car for the first time now (Mercedes A-class), and it's just so good at shifting that I never even consider it any more. I think of the transmission as another part of the driving experience to automate away now, like turning lights and parking brakes on and off.

How would you automate turning lights? They are pretty useless if they only fire when the car is already turning. The whole point of them is to give a warning prior to turning.

Post by augustl » Tue, May 06, 2014, 3:10 PM UTC

tuxguy wrote: post #172

augustl wrote: post #35

I own a 2013 XC60 and as a programmer, I'm amazed at how well their current automation works in practice. The car reads road signs to show me the current speed limit in the dash (actual OCR, not a GPS database). It works amazingly well, except when it's very dark in the winter. Adaptive cruise control flawlessly follows cars based on radar, even in somewhat dramatic full stops, e.g. when there's suddenly heavy traffi…

1. just curious, this is is sweeden, right ? 2. city driving/ highway ?