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Re:Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboti... by majewsky on Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:18AM (#12237650)
Maybe they're testing convoy algorithms now. I can easily imagine autonomous vehicles forming convoys, using some short-distance communication to synchronize and thus optimize their movements.
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Re:Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboti... by vanboxel on Saturday August 06, 2016 @08:17AM (#12237853)
I actually studied exactly that! The optimal calculations for headway distance get a bit involved, but I coded up a modest algorithm and simple simulator. https://github.com/dvbuntu/oddities
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