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I still want to see a self-driving car in Minnesota in winter. Road markings, what road markings? For that matter where is the road?
The road markings will be clearly visible, of course, since there will be self-driving snowplows around 24/7.
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The road markings will be clearly visible, of course, since there will be self-driving snowplows around 24/7.
How are the road markings visible to the first snowplow?
It reminds me a bit of the story about NASA and the gazillion dollar space pen, vs the soviet space agency and their pencils.
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How are the road markings visible to the first snowplow?
Lots of other people talk about fancy GPS systems in this thread, but it's been done for far longer with much simpler, arguably more reliable technology: long poles/sticks either painted with bright high vis paint, or more recently, retroreflectors. It reminds me a bit of the story about NASA and the gazillion dollar space pen, vs the soviet space agency and their pencils.
> When the solution of providing astronauts with a ballpoint pen that would work under weightless conditions and extreme temperatures came about, though, it wasn’t because NASA had thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars (inflated to $12 billion in the latest iterations of this tale) in research and development money at the problem. The “space pen” that has since become famous through its use by astronauts was developed independently by Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pen Co., who spent his own money on the project and, once he perfected his AG-7 “Anti-Gravity” Space Pen, offered it to NASA.
I still want to see a self-driving car in Minnesota in winter. Road markings, what road markings? For that matter where is the road?
This definitely seems like an idea created and propagated by people with no idea about how these systems work. The Cruise Automation/GM videos show the cars crossing lane markings when a truck is blocking traffic in their lane, so these systems are being built to realise that while traffic laws may say one thing, practice requires something different. Certainly entertaining though.
Or maybe the artist is just a lazy anti-AI person and I am giving him too much credit. But I wouldn't say it's a foregone conclusion.
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The road markings will be clearly visible, of course, since there will be self-driving snowplows around 24/7.
As someone who grew up in the mountains, I can tell you that the plows (and tire chains) do a fantastic job of stripping all the road markings away.
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Lots of other people talk about fancy GPS systems in this thread, but it's been done for far longer with much simpler, arguably more reliable technology: long poles/sticks either painted with bright high vis paint, or more recently, retroreflectors. It reminds me a bit of the story about NASA and the gazillion dollar space pen, vs the soviet space agency and their pencils.
Sure, why not a "gazillion" at this point: > When the solution of providing astronauts with a ballpoint pen that would work under weightless conditions and extreme temperatures came about, though, it wasn’t because NASA had thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars (inflated to $12 billion in the latest iterations of this tale) in research and development money at the problem. The “space pen” that has since become famo…
Pencils have issues with electrical systems, waste, and flammability.