Re:The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
by t0mas88 on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:57AM
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It wouldn't be that hard to put a scanning radar at the front of the thing and look 10 miles ahead so you have time to steer around others.
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Re:The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
by arethuza on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:37AM
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At about 10m height the horizon is only ~11km away - fine for a ship but if you are going 550km/h in something that doesn't look wildly manoeuvrable it might be quite exciting.
Re:The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
by t0mas88 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:04PM
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Still gives you a full minute to steer around something. But probably requires some automated system to decide on "collision or not" because that would be hard to do on time manually at such a distance.
If you start steering 30 seconds after detecting an object you would still be 5+ km away, so assuming a ship is at most 200m long you would only need a 3 degree course change to miss it by more than a ships length. Maybe make it 5 degrees to miss it by 400+ meters.