An Acura RLX sedan brakes to avoid a mannequin "pedestrian"
Posted on 09/13/2014 7:36:35 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
DETROIT (Reuters) - An Acura RLX sedan demonstrated an unusual way to tow another car this week: the vehicles were not physically attached. The second car drove itself, following instructions beamed over by the first in a feat of technology that indicates a new stage in automation is happening faster than many expected.
An Acura RLX sedan brakes to avoid a mannequin "pedestrian"
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Cover your eyes....I’m gonna hit you baby.
Woman to psychiatrist, “Even the cars are talking about me.”
If you have a self-driving car, would you also be inclined to watch another man make love to your wife?
Yikes, I didn’t think I’d live long enough to become a Luddite, but here I am, and decades ahead of schedule.
Before it’s over, we will only go where the car wants to go.
what i wanna know is who gets the speeding ticket?
It's bad enough they installed those damn brakes that pretend they know what's ahead.
“The whole idea is STUPID!!”
Yes. It started with cruise control and now see what is happening!
Wait until they start giving each other the finger.
Or one machine transmuted orders to another as it was programed to do by humans.
Not nearly as dramatic I admit. But it has the virtue of being more accurate.
Hackers are rubbing their hands with glee over this. Full sized remote-control multi-car crack-ups right in front of mama’s porch at the push of a button.
I’m not going to be impressed until they can flip off a car that cuts them off.
You basically would get off a special “express” exit at the left lane from a manual driving highway and the car would go into self mode when you cross a boundary.
If every car can communicate on the network, I think it could work. If the network goes down in a certain location, all the affected cars would alert the driver, slow down and go into manual mode. Then when they reach a place where the network is back up, they would go back to self mode.
If a single car breaks down or is slower than average optimal traffic flow (calculated by the self-drive network based on performance of cars and driver preferences), its gps location will be known and the self-drivers will seamlessly go around it or stop until a tow clears the road.
Cars that drive themselves are eminently hackable and will be hacked. Cares that talk to each other are more easily hacked. Police can stop or redirect them at will. So can 12 year old gamers. Gangbangers or government guys with cell phones can drive them into palm trees.
I HAFF DEETAILED FILESS
Well we know where we’re goin’
But we don’t know where we’ve been
And we know what we’re knowin’
But we can’t say what we’ve seen
And we’re not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out
We’re on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin’ that ride to nowhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0
“They can tell you what to do
But they’ll make a fool of you
And it’s all right, baby, it’s all right”
“We’re on a road to nowhere”
I think it really depends on what is being communicated. It should be advisory information that the receiver should be ready to figure out for itself, communicated to enable a smoother operation, not essential to the operation. In this network of things that is promised, there must be one golden rule: trust no one. Not even yourself (e.g. Redundant systems, sensors and checks, cross-checked with peers, etc.)
I don’t think self-driven cars are going to happen for decades to come, too many issues esp at the human/machine interface, but some of the technology will find its way into contemporary vehicles (”Total Awareness Safety” on highend luxury vehicles, etc)
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