Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by babyshake on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @07:55PM
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Arguably all modern vehicles are incredibly heavy robots. AVs are just supposed to be better robots.
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Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by sandworm101 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:45PM
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No more so than a bicycle is a 20lb robot or an airplane is a 20,000lb robot. Clearly a self-driving vehicle is a different paradigm.
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
by kaonwarb on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:01AM
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"The average car has 30 to 50 different computers, and high-end cars have as many as 100, and they're accompanied by 60 to 100 different electronic sensors." [1]
The median modern bicycle has 0 computers and sensors.
[1] https://www.ceinetwork.com/cei-blog/auto-computers-means-com...