Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
by Shorel on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:24AM
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If they are too big then the car will only have room for two: one in the front and one in the back.
TaDa: the self driving Tron motorcycle!
Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
by sillysaurus3 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:52AM
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Could you just use standard wheels, but let all four of them turn 90 degrees? Then the car could move laterally.
Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
by Retric on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:24AM
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There are some cars that already do this.
It's a lot simpler with independent electric motors per wheel, but generally not that useful as self drivings cars can already parallel park just fine.
Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
by jacquesm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:48PM
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You only need one wheel to turn very tightly:
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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
by jacquesm on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:21AM
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That's true. But then again, I did come up with live streaming video on the web and some other lesser known bits and pieces of technology. And I'd argue my lego sorting machine also required plenty of creative thinking.
This is mostly likely not something that could be rolled out even in a concept car with present day technology unless there is some kind of trick that I'm not aware of. Halbach arrays are not without problems if you allow them to be unconstrained in all dimensions.