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Drink "driving" may soon be safe.
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Originally posted by rwatts View PostWell not exactly drink "driving", but rather drinking while the "driver" is being driven.
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Originally posted by rwatts View PostWell not exactly drink "driving", but rather drinking while the "driver" is being driven.
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Originally posted by The Pixie View PostI am surprised this is going ahead so fast. It seems to me that manufacturers of "robot" cars are going to get sued every time one is involved in an accident. Even if they are confident their cars are not to blame, I cannot see any company wanting to get involved in lawsuits on a regular basis.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostSo the cars' computers can talk to each other and negotiate who goes first at intersections -- what about the drunk in a NON-driverless car - can they anticipate is NON-logical operation of the vehicle. It can't be assumed that all other cars on the road will be computer operated.
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Originally posted by Irate Canadian View PostErm, if the system has be trained to avoid accidents, it will be accurate majority of the time. Even then, it's better to have 2 robo-car accidents then 200 driveable car ones.
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So the cars' computers can talk to each other and negotiate who goes first at intersections -- what about the drunk in a NON-driverless car - can they anticipate is NON-logical operation of the vehicle. It can't be assumed that all other cars on the road will be computer operated.
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Originally posted by The Pixie View PostI am surprised this is going ahead so fast. It seems to me that manufacturers of "robot" cars are going to get sued every time one is involved in an accident. Even if they are confident their cars are not to blame, I cannot see any company wanting to get involved in lawsuits on a regular basis.
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Originally posted by rwatts View PostWell not exactly drink "driving", but rather drinking while the "driver" is being driven.
Driverless cars it seems are getting very close:-
http://www.nature.com/news/autonomou...quired-1.16832 *
A couple of years ago I heard a talk on this topic. The speaker was discussing the concept making traffic control much more efficient because vehicle computers could talk to each other, arranging the order by which cars went through roundabouts, as an example.
I imagined that one from the perspective of passengers in cars approaching a roundabout from four different directions at a speed of 100 kph. The talking computers could have the vehicles cross each other's paths within a thousandth of a second of hitting each other. Outsiders might find the view spectacular, watching all these streams of vehicles crossing each other's paths and missing by a bee's whisker. But for passengers inside the vehicles it would be terrifying.
Best to make these vehicles without windows.
* The comments are interesting too.
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Originally posted by rwatts View PostWell not exactly drink "driving", but rather drinking while the "driver" is being driven.
Driverless cars it seems are getting very close:-
http://www.nature.com/news/autonomou...quired-1.16832
A couple of years ago I heard a talk on this topic. The speaker was discussing the concept making traffic control much more efficient because vehicle computers could talk to each other, arranging the order by which cars went through roundabouts, as an example.
I imagined that one from the perspective of passengers in cars approaching a roundabout from four different directions at a speed of 100 kph. The talking computers could have the vehicles cross each other's paths within a thousandth of a second of hitting each other. Outsiders might find the view spectacular, watching all these streams of vehicles crossing each other's paths and missing by a bee's whisker. But for passengers inside the vehicles it would be terrifying.
Best to make these vehicles without windows.
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Drink "driving" may soon be safe.
Well not exactly drink "driving", but rather drinking while the "driver" is being driven.
Driverless cars it seems are getting very close:-
http://www.nature.com/news/autonomou...quired-1.16832 *
A couple of years ago I heard a talk on this topic. The speaker was discussing the concept making traffic control much more efficient because vehicle computers could talk to each other, arranging the order by which cars went through roundabouts, as an example.
I imagined that one from the perspective of passengers in cars approaching a roundabout from four different directions at a speed of 100 kph. The talking computers could have the vehicles cross each other's paths within a thousandth of a second of hitting each other. Outsiders might find the view spectacular, watching all these streams of vehicles crossing each other's paths and missing by a bee's whisker. But for passengers inside the vehicles it would be terrifying.
Best to make these vehicles without windows.
* The comments are interesting too.Last edited by rwatts; 02-05-2015, 01:14 AM.Tags: None
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