Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars

Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars by sytse on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:12PM (#13368498)

It would be interesting to allow tele operations in this kind of scenario so the drunk, sleeping, underage, and disabled can benefit from self driving cars.

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Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars by nradov on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:24PM (#13369158)

Our wireless communications infrastructure lacks the reliability and latency guarantees that would be necessary for remote operation.

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Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars by sytse on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @05:26PM (#13369782)

The idea is that when there is an unexpected situation that car stops and the teleoperator would indicate the best path forward. The human would not drive like an RC car but more like a rally car navigator. This is for example mentioned in http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/self-driving/after-m... "Eventually, nuTonomy will transition to full autonomy with the option for teleoperation."

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Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars by jpindar on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @09:30PM (#13371269)

There's plenty of places that have no cell phone reception. I go through one on my commute, and it's not even all that rural.

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Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars by sytse on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @08:36AM (#13373770)

That is a problem. But I do think that teleoperation will be a thing despite that.

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