h a l f b a k e r yFutility is persistent.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
As a way to reduce accidents, a simi autopilot that allows
the driver control of the vehicle's speed and direction but
constrains it for safety similar to cars you drive at
amusement parks that travel along a rail that keeps the car
from going off the path.
This could be switched off when
somebody just wants to
drive around, but I think most car trips are a planned point
a to point b thing so if this worked most accidents could be
avoided.
Somebody has to have already thought of this no?
If an A.I. gets a valid profit return game.
https://en.wikipedi...Cars_That_Ate_Paris
The veggies can even be wetware system backup. [wjt, Sep 25 2021]
[link]
|
| |
Wherever it comes from, a former frontman for a
heavy metal band or an international multi billion
dollar car manufacturer, I do think something along
these lines is the wave of the future. |
|
| |
[In a galaxy outside your door, post-Covid...] Take your 'lane-assist' -equipped family car on a road trip to the amusement park, where Bill* photographs your licence plate, and the car seamlessly shifts over to the park's lane-assist line, providing you've sufficient credit. |
|
| |
You'll be traveling through the park in the comfort** of your own car, waiting in lines at the drive-through snacks kiosks, queuing for rides designed to accept any standard road-worthy wheel base. Tired? Tip the chair back and rest, while everyone else** continues to enjoy the ride(s), snacks, dioramas, montages and whatnot. |
|
| |
Making cars into trains reminds me of when we used to ride horses onto the train. Saved a lot of horsepower <snurk> on long trips. (Later that same century, we hitched with a canoe to catch the Polar Bear Express to Moosonee in James Bay.) |
|
| |
*the Billing Dept. camera, tastefully hidden in plain sight in the frieze between the cornice and the architrave on the park's Welcome arch. |
|
| |
**Choose wisely your passengers, Cap'n.
Note: At the ZumbaFlume, you will be reminded to roll up your windows. Or not. |
|
| |
[Sgt Teacup]; hitch-hiking with a canoe? That's awesome.
Also, anyone who stopped to pick you & your canoe up, is
also awesome. |
|
| |
[neutrinos], believe it or don't, but back in the day, trains would stop wherever people who needed a lift gathered by the rails at a natural flat, slow spot on the route. There was always a baggage car, and the supply cars; failing that, you could put the canoe in the aisle between the seats. So yes, actual human train crews were awesome. |
|
| |
Also awesome were Voyageur bus drivers who'd pick up outside of regular depots, as long as you were waiting along the route at a well-lit spot where drivers could see far enough ahead to come to a safe stop. You could bring your canoe or your bike on the Voyageur bus. |
|
| |
I think self-driving cars would work really well if all
cars were self-driving cars, and the only things on the
road were self-driving cars |
|
| |
[hippo] I think what you're describing there are
commonly referred to as "trains". |
|
| |
[hippo]; yeah, autonomous vehicles work incredibly well if
there is nothing else around. There have been various AGVs
in factories & warehouses for a long time. But as soon as
you add pedestrians, animals, other vehicles (driven by
humans), bikes, weather, etc, it becomes infinitely more
difficult. |
|
| |
That's always been the number to look at, total accidents of
humans vs total accidents of A.I. That being said, anecdotal
stories will still need to be dealth with since they have the
edge and get the headlines. "The nun was taking 4 orphans
to meet Santa at the mall when the autopilot drove them
off a cliff." counteracts a lot of boring stories featuring
math about accidents being reduced by driver assistance
technology. |
|
| |
OK, "infinitely" was a bit much hyperbole...
Of course, most human drivers are very good if there's
nothing else around, too. |
|
| |
That's the deal a1, 38,000 non-autonomous car
crashes won't get the headlines like the guy who fell
asleep in the back seat of a Tesla and crashed. That
happens twice the news would be "The scourge of
A.I. crashes. In other news, regular car crash deaths down
to 38,000 this year." Although the news editors would
probably have the last part cut out. |
|
| |
So [doc], your advocating a central server trip plotter or transponder? a virtual vehicle connection rail. Makes sense, the autonomous car would then only have to identify and model non signalling motion in the changing environment. |
|
| |
Yea, I'm thinking we're moving in that direction
anyway. The auto-driver thing without some kind
of
prepped road is asking an awful lot of the
technology,
but with any kind of high tech prep of the road the
car needs to drive on, you not only have the
enhanced safety thing, but you can smooth the
flow
of traffic minimizing traffic jams, increase speed
safely etc. |
|
| |
I think we get a little lost in new technology
sometimes. All electric cars suck compared to
hybrids in my opinion for instance. A.I. without
road enhancements also is jumping too deep into a
new technology just so we can say it's new. |
|
| |
But of course, we'd have to see what the backup
plan is when the system breaks down which it
would. Alarms go off and the person is told the
backup A.I. is working independently and needs
wetware backup so wake up and drive maybe. |
|
| |
//wetware backup so wake up and drive//
Unless (as will certainly become the case...) the car is an
"auto-taxi" & the passenger can't (or at least, isn't licensed to)
drive.
Back-up plan will be "park & call for assistance". |
|
| |
^Early learning training, next to dialing for emergency, will be how to pull over and stop a vehicle. |
|
| |
..and how to pull a fuse. |
|
| |