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What does Autonomous Car do when another car tries to run it off the road?


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Like someone in the passing lane falls asleep and starts to veer into the Auto Car?  or attacked by Deadly Car Ninja Assassins?

 

An interesting problem in hierarchy:  it would probably slow down and stop, but the real question is what would be the steering input?  Would it try to stay on the road which would mean fight back?  Or run off the road trying to avoid a collision?

 

AutoCars sound creepy and are just plain onerous to me.  But it would really piss me off if they could legally drive me home shit-faced because I am too old to do that anymore.  (but actually, technically speaking, us men-folk tend to act as young as the girl we're with, so I guess there is always a chance that...) 

 

If that would become a reality, Alcoholism will explode as will the Alcohol Industry.

 

In fact, it might lead to the downfall of civilization on this planet, a la Talos IV, unless they discover the Higgs Boson and blow up the planet first.  (Riddle me where I got the latter comment!)

 

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Back to vacuum line rigging on my 74 620... then put the seat belts in, fix the seat spring, and take for Maiden Voyage - its first locomotion since I bot it.  Then insurance, plates, inspection and wow, I'll have a bench seat and no girl friend.  Ya know, bucket seats and texting have destroyed society... not to mention Internet and then...  (I'll stop here - to the garage...)

 

 

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lots of cars already have brake and accelerator  override technology, Nissan and Infiniti have intelligent cruise control that automatically slows you down (all the way to a stop if need be) and accelerate back to speed. From what I've read, and what they are working on in japan truly autonomous cars would have their own road way, ie slot car track

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I'm talking about the fully autonomous car that completely drive themselves.  Google is fighting to get them made legal - I think the UK legalized them already.

 

Big question:  could you ride in one if your license was suspended or you did not have a license or were drunk or you were sleeping?  Frankly, a car that would drive me to FL and I wouldn't have to do anything - well, I just might go for that.  Wouldn

 

Wouldn't it be ironic if Auto-Cars drove at 100 mph and people driven cars were kept at 70?  Yes, that would suck.  But it will probably be the other way around.  Auto-Cars will drive slower and maintain a safe following distance which in Chicago Rush Hour means you will be driving 10 mph under the speed limit and pissing everyone around you because they will all have to pass you.  (Actually this happened to me.  I had a new car and you know you get stone chips when you tailgate and never get a single one if you lay back a couple hundred feet.  So I was doing this.  I was going 50-55 mph and everyone else was doing 70 or better.  I sucked but I would be damned if I was going to chip up my new car.

 

Already the lawyers are fighting over what happens in my auto-park car damages someone else's?

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I love canyon carving but on long trips (like 1100 miles from FL to PA) it is Cruel and Unusual Punishment.  Not driving at least 100 mph is Tedious Torture - you know, not even the good kind of Torture (!) 

 

And to think, our interstate highway system was "inspired" by Hitler's Autobahn. 

 

Eisenhower screwed up when he didn't lay the ground work for unlimited speed areas.  I was shocked to learn that when they opened the PA Turnpike, initially there were no speed limits.  But the story is that some congressman got passed while he was going pretty damn fast, he started the wheels in motion to "clamp down."  In fact, England was limitless until some asshat with an AC Cobra pissed off a few lawmakers and they changed the law of the land.

 

I hooked up with a friend while in FL in West Palm Beach and we drove to the 24 hr Sebring Endurance Race and it shocked me that he drove 100 mph casually, and 135 when things got interesting.  I mean, yeah, that's fun, but I guess I'm Pussy Whipped by the Cops.  I treat Cops like they are SkyNet so I always speed in packs and do just about every counter measure there is.  Needless to say I don't get speeding tickets.  (But then, maybe I should open things up until I get one, then chill.)

 

So "getting out of" the "driving" part of the trip to FL sounds good to me.

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Fuck the automated car.  It will have it's day for about 5 minutes until Sister Ann and her 5 Ethiopian children autonomously drive off the road and the rest of the morons realize, hey, this isn't a good idea!

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Autonomous cars that have only themselves on the road can go any speed they like but as MPG does not change there is no advantage to going fast. You could safely have 55MPH lane beside unlimited lanes. GPS locators, speed, throttle and steering/brake inputs and 360 degree radar would scan for objects and any changes. A mechanical failure would be about the only cause of an incursion into another lane. Weather would be factored in and speed auto adjusted. All cars would be connected and anticipate problems ahead by slowing and or changing lanes. A good idea would be to space cars well enough apart that a fast lane car could emergency decelerate and merge with the slow lane. A fast car capable of and doing 150 would inform the traffic ahead and they would begin spacing themselves wider as he came up from behind and resuming spacing after. Not everyone is going to be going 150 so a rare event. Emergency vehicles would automatically move all cars ahead to the right (or perhaps the left) but either way a clear empty lane as far as needed. Road damage or inconsistent paving would be noted and stored locally, sent to approaching vehicles and they would adjust or move over to avoid. Foreign objects found would likewise be sent to highway maintenance for immediate removal.

 

On roads shared with ordinary drivers this would be a problem as the non autonomous cars are prone to incursions into the autonomous lane for many more reasons. Thus to limit incursion accidents the speed limit would have to be the same at least and likely they would be relegated to the slower right hand lane and a reduced rate.

 

I really can't see the two mixed unless there were some sort of semi autonomous control involved with feedback to the autonomous vehicles. Certainly a GPS so all 'nons' are located and speed and behavior known.

 

No one is going to become an AA member just because he doesn't drive as much.

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I don't understand why anyone would want to give complete control of their vehicle to a computer. I commute 35 miles on a twisty mountain road and I love it! We're doomed. We're all dooooooooomed!

 

 

Anybody ever seen Wall-E???

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Hey, we're there already.  It's amazing.  People worship heroes in the movies, but when the government tells you to act like a cowardly victim, everyone embraces it.

 

Pathetic, soft, pussified, I would say we're done, and finally...

 

We're Doomed

 

I saw someone else saying this.  I think I started 20 years ago, but lately, what's the point of saying the obvious.

 

... wonder if I can get a gas tank gauge sending unit for my 620....

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