Quote:
Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
I wonder if there's a way to combine both manual driving and self-driving cars at first. At least to ease in the technology. Like some sort of predictive driving.
|
Cars already do this to some degree... automatic parking, smart cruise control, automatic breaking before you can react, there's a bunch of this kind of thing already.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
Edit: Eventually it would be cool to get all the cars say in a city registered into a massive computer that could optimize all driving in a city, eliminating all congestion forever! But yeah then the only problem is the whole Skynet thing that was mentioned earlier lol.
|
Yup, that's what I'd be for, though I don't see it happening in my lifetime at least just because there's always people who love driving their cars themselves, and this kind of optimization seems to be an all or nothing kind of thing. Though I guess if the manual car was still capable of automatic drive and was instrumented it could be integrated into the system somewhat, but things like intersections with no lights with cars timed to whiz past each other wouldn't be doable with a manual car.
Quote:
Originally Posted by burnin_vernon
I would be concerned about the drivers who never do any maintenance on their vehicles. The radar/laser or whatever would likely require some kind of routine inspections. Many people don't take their car in for any kind of service whatsoever until the problem has escalated.
|
That's a really really good point. In Nevada where the worst thing you have to worry about is dust or bird poop it's one thing, when people won't brush off 5 feet of snow off their cars, that's something else.
There'd have to be robust diagnostics that keep track of sensors at least, and it might not even be viable in a climate like ours (water playing havoc with laser and radar type sensors).