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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by userbinator on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:17PM (#20180130)
Do you have any thoughts about the "sudden hand-off" problem, i.e. when the "autopilot disconnects" and the human has to suddenly take over and make a decision in the next fraction of a second? This is difficult enough even with the driver in the vehicle, and remote control can only add latency.
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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by StavrosK on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:19PM (#20180134)
Why would this ever happen? The failsafe will probably be "hazard lights go on, truck immediately brakes and pulls over", not "goes into super manual mode over slow link".
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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by MegaButts on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:22PM (#20180147)
This is assuming it knows how to pull over while it simultaneously doesn't know how to drive on its own. The assumption "it always knows how to pull over" is similar to "it always knows how to drive forward." They're not the same, but you need validation for either.
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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by TomMarius on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:24AM (#20181565)
At least European driving regulations are made in a way that allows you to stop right in the middle of the road in case of danger, except for highways of course - where the problem is significantly easier.
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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by StavrosK on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:14AM (#20181784)
It knows how to drive on its own on the freeway and only needs humans to drive it off the freeway, no?
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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by MegaButts on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:28PM (#20186406)
That's the goal. The problem is it literally has to be 100% perfect for this to work, which is an insanely difficult barrier which has never really been done before in robotics. To call it ambitious would be the most generous way to describe it.
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