Re:The 5th-generation Waymo Driver
by baybal2 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:47AM
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Will look forward to it too, if we'll ever see it.
Traffic control if a big part of the problem, if not a half of it.
If you had 100% pedestrian free roads, with ideal road surface, and radio signalling, where a car becomes indistinguishable from a train for control purposes, then even with current state of computer science it becomes quite real.
This is the route most Chinese companies are progressing on. They are not making a self-driving car, but a "self-driving road." Something akin to air traffic control system for cars.
And this is only for things like public transport, garbage dumpsters, cleaning, and other public utility vehicles.
The bus gets a radionavigation receiver, radar for collision avoidance backup, and receives commends over the air.
Traffic control if a big part of the problem, if not a half of it.
If you had 100% pedestrian free roads, with ideal road surface, and radio signalling, where a car becomes indistinguishable from a train for control purposes, then even with current state of computer science it becomes quite real.
This is the route most Chinese companies are progressing on. They are not making a self-driving car, but a "self-driving road." Something akin to air traffic control system for cars.
And this is only for things like public transport, garbage dumpsters, cleaning, and other public utility vehicles.
The bus gets a radionavigation receiver, radar for collision avoidance backup, and receives commends over the air.