Re:Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving...
by mod on Friday January 15, 2016 @10:10AM
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What are your thoughts on the millions of miles self-driving cars have already put on the road without a sensor in every little spot?
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Re:Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving...
by gambiting on Saturday January 16, 2016 @10:02AM
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My thoughts are - all self driving cars at the moment operate knowing that there is a human at the wheel, so they are likely to notice a broken suspension coil, rattling clutch, or deflated tyres(even if the sensor reports they are fine, which happens). For "true" autonomous cars the car has to know it itself - especially if it is to allow passangers to literally go to sleep, or even drive without them - so you can summon it from the other side of the city for example. The computer just has to know 100% of its own state, and that requires a huge number of sensors.
Re:Obama administration ready to put $4B toward self-driving...
by melted on Friday January 15, 2016 @03:17PM
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Notice how all those miles are in California where it almost never rains. It's still a hard problem, but it's much easier than driving in Alaska or Seattle. When I see millions of accident-free miles from those places, that's whe I'll be truly impressed, even if it's done with adapted infrastructure.