For the DU Trolls who are unable to grasp the concept.
Posted on 08/22/2014 10:56:23 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is now making it mandatory for Google's driverless cars to be equipped with steering wheels and pedals.
The new regulations on testing have been released to make sure that a human can take control of the vehicle in case something goes wrong with the car's software, according to The Telegraph. The search giant is now unable to take its autonomous vehicles on public roads without giving drivers the ability to take "immediate control" of the car.
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How else can the revenuers get their revenue!
Would you trust the likes of Google with your family’s safety? Not in a million years.
Are Cali legislators expecting humans to jump into the “out of control” cars like Keanu in the movie Speed?
Makes zero sense, but that's what you get when you draw your politicians from the sub-100 IQ pool.
If there is nobody in the car able to control it, then what human is legally liable for any accident or traffic violation by the car? That’s the real issue behind this.
It actually surprises me that they bought cars without the basic controls - I figure it would have been a lot cheaper just to buy stock vehicles.
It has nothing to do with unions. Virtually every self propelled vehicle from planes, trains, boats, automobiles, and even drones are required to have a human-machine interface, if only to take control when something goes wrong.
That's covered in the linked article.
“Are Cali legislators expecting humans to jump into the “out of control” cars like Keanu in the movie Speed?”
No. A ‘driver’ is required to sit in the ‘natural position’.
Well, no s! How many gov’t subsidies/taxpayer dollars did it take to come to that conclusion? /Duh
That said, I always wondered why in Knight Rider they would build KITT as a two seat sports car which required someone to sit in the driver seat. I mean, what's the point of a car that drives itself if you have to sit behind the wheel all the time anyway? Why not make KITT and RV? Now I know, some bureaucrat demanded it.
“If the controls are fly-by-wire, the steering wheel and pedals will be too. Makes zero sense, but that’s what you get when you draw your politicians from the sub-100 IQ pool.”
Your post makes no sense.
A steering wheel will be nothing more than a joystick that sends signals to the computer.
If the computer goes down, the steering wheel will not work.
You are right. I guess I will never fly commercial again. If their computer goes down, the steering will not work.
For the DU Trolls who are unable to grasp the concept.
They’re defeating the whole purpose.
Fly by wire does not mean they all operate with the same software. Even fly-by-wire aircraft have backup systems. Trust me it is not a joke and works well. I engineer avionics for a living. The design of redundant systems is an whole science. Personally I would never drive in a car with no backup manual control...not unless it was designed to FAA standards. I sure as heck would not trust my life to anything programmed by those hippies at Google. I doubt they would know DO-178b if it bit them in the butt.
Heck, I’m still a little uneasy when I just go to cruise control! I can’t imagine sitting back with any sense of security while my car drives me!
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