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Subject: Toyota are doing driver less cars now
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20910769

So what do you think flood. Do you think this is the future? Or just a gimmick that will pass?

  • 01.04.2013 12:21 PM PDT


Posted by: lightlamp2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20910769

So what do you think flood. Do you think this is the future? Or just a gimmick that will pass?


I believe that people are going to start hacking cars to drive them off cliffs.

  • 01.04.2013 12:21 PM PDT

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Because we all know how well those randomly accelerating priuses worked out for others right?

Nah, I'll stick to less electronics.

  • 01.04.2013 12:22 PM PDT

I'll still want to drive the car myself. I will get scared if a car is driving itself in the middle of heavy traffic.

  • 01.04.2013 12:22 PM PDT
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Western world is too broke to upgrade infrastructure to make this happen.

  • 01.04.2013 12:23 PM PDT

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  • 01.04.2013 12:23 PM PDT
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  • 01.04.2013 12:24 PM PDT

Give girls more time to do their makeup in the car as some do a lot.

  • 01.04.2013 12:25 PM PDT

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Cool.

  • 01.04.2013 12:26 PM PDT
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Google did this forever ago.

  • 01.04.2013 12:27 PM PDT

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Can't wait for them to catch on, I love driving so I'd probably never buy one but it'll be nice knowing there's less idiots out driving on the roads.

  • 01.04.2013 12:28 PM PDT
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It is the future, but I don't think it's the near future.

  • 01.04.2013 12:29 PM PDT

So I'll be able to just sit back, relax watch a movie and eat chips while the car takes me where I need to go?

  • 01.04.2013 12:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: ParanoidHipster
Google did this forever ago.

exactly this.. Cool a manufacturer is going to be doing it but it's already been done and over 300,000 miles logged with zero accidents.

  • 01.04.2013 12:30 PM PDT

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Posted by: A Good Troll
Western world is too broke to upgrade infrastructure to make this happen.

You wouldn't have to upgrade any infrastructure, the Google cars have already driven crazy distances on public roads and they haven't had any problems with current roads.

  • 01.04.2013 12:31 PM PDT

as I said in the last thread, keep those stupid driver-less cars the hell away from me, I'd like to be in control of my car.

I feel much safer in the hands of the people I know and trust that an AI that could have a number of things wrong with it that the AI refuses to tell you because of said problems.

  • 01.04.2013 12:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Scorch676
Posted by: A Good Troll
Western world is too broke to upgrade infrastructure to make this happen.

You wouldn't have to upgrade any infrastructure, the Google cars have already driven crazy distances on public roads and they haven't had any problems with current roads.

You can't just stick it on any road and drive it.

Reference

Two things seem particularly interesting about Google's approach. First, it relies on very detailed maps of the roads and terrain, something that Urmson said is essential to determine accurately where the car is. Using GPS-based techniques alone, he said, the location could be off by several meters.

The second thing is that, before sending the self-driving car on a road test, Google engineers drive along the route one or more times to gather data about the environment. When it's the autonomous vehicle's turn to drive itself, it compares the data it is acquiring to the previously recorded data, an approach that is useful to differentiate pedestrians from stationary objects like poles and mailboxes.


You have to log each and every mile of America's millions of miles of road and all the locations around it. Parking lots, everything. Nevermind any new construction as it is built.

Good luck.

Toyota's relies on sporadic placement of markers to give it a reference point - to use their approach, you'd have to put those markers along all those millions of miles of road.

[Edited on 01.04.2013 12:41 PM PST]

  • 01.04.2013 12:39 PM PDT