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| Author: | trekkie [ October 28th, 2010, 3:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | robotic car |
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749 ... in-shanghai-22681340 few orange vans, no drivers. heading to china from europe. have fun |
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| Author: | Adbot [ October 28th, 2010, 3:10 pm ] |
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| Author: | ChrisT [ October 28th, 2010, 5:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: robotic car |
i reallllllyyyy hope when the driverless cars come out, and are sold to the public easily, they have a switch to manual drive. I cant stand other people driving for me and i doubt i could stand a computer doing it for me neither. I know the accident rate might go down but idk...maybe im just a control freak and dont want to let a computer drive me around places. |
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| Author: | Duke Juker [ October 28th, 2010, 6:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: robotic car |
Dang. Video has been removed. Well, I think I know what the stories about. We talked about this last year in ITEC class. Only problem I have immediately is what ChrisT said: control. Can a computer handle everything that comes from driving? What if you are in a bad storm or there is ice on the road...can a computer compensate for that? I'd rather take my life into my own hands then leave it to a computer to decide for me. xD Edit: Works now. 
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| Author: | Ice [ October 28th, 2010, 6:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: robotic car |
Reminds me of my favorite book series. Cars can by driven by the computer or be voice-commanded to switch to manual for the driver. 
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| Author: | trekkie [ October 28th, 2010, 6:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: robotic car |
^well the link is working now when i clicked on it. well in case it's not working SHANGHAI (AP) — Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert — it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost. Four driverless electric vans successfully ended a 8,000-mile (13,000-kilometer) test drive from Italy to China — a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey around the world — with their arrival at the Shanghai Expo on Thursday. The vehicles, equipped with four solar-powered laser scanners and seven video cameras that work together to detect and avoid obstacles, are part of an experiment aimed at improving road safety and advancing automotive technology. The sensors on the vehicles enabled them to navigate through wide extremes in road, traffic and weather conditions, while collecting data to be analyzed for further research, in a study sponsored by the European Research Council. "We didn't know the route, I mean what the roads would have been and if we would have found nice roads, traffic, lots of traffic, medium traffic, crazy drivers or regular drivers, so we encountered the lot," said Isabella Fredriga, a research engineer for the project. Though the vans were driverless and mapless, they did carry researchers as passengers just in case of emergencies. The experimenters did have to intervene a few times — when the vehicles got snarled in a Moscow traffic jam and to handle toll stations. The project used no maps, often traveling through remote regions of Siberia and China. At one point, a van stopped to give a hitchhiker a lift. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... 4c329e9e054d9b60eda3 don't know if that link will work. anyway, about control, there should always be a manual override. that should always be part of every robot. things will always go wrong and when something goes wrong, always good to go old school. although if all new cars come with this equip for freeway useage (already testing small amounts in U.C davis) and everybody on the freeway can go 115 miles safely do you REALLLY want to switch to manual control at that time? |
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