Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by Piskvorrr on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:03AM
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Tech would have needed to see through terrain (road is not always flat - even though sometimes the crests and dips are so rare there's a warning sign ahead: https://media.gettyimages.com/videos/outback-road-sign-of-cr... )...and be retrofitted into the existing cabs. So, no: the tool of choice is still brute force, literally.
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Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by stubish on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:31PM
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Sensors would work. If the cab isn't already tall enough (they are big!), you could mount the sensors on a pole. The road isn't always flat, but flat enough; I doubt a road train can deal with much of a gradient.
Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by mcbits on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:49AM
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They could carry a set of battery packs on the roof and a pair of drones acting as scouts, one flying ahead with cameras and lidar for 10 minutes while the other one returns to swap out its battery.
Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by Piskvorrr on Thursday January 17, 2019 @03:42PM
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Cool...but you need three to have backup, and a battery swap mechanism, and a charging system, and this contraption happens to be more complex than the rest of the car combined. I mean, it could work...but it feels very Inspector Gadget-ish.