Self-driving car rampage...

Started by deanwebb, May 27, 2015, 09:22:42 AM

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deanwebb

May 27, 2015, 09:22:42 AM
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
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routerdork

#1
May 27, 2015, 10:10:20 AM
I bet those options become standard features real quick like now.
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dlots

#2
May 27, 2015, 12:08:30 PM
Hey #Volvo (or pretty much any company for that matter) If you come up with a neat feature, don't make the "Don't murder people" part optional, I think it will eventually become bad PR, or make this feature illegal before to long.

deanwebb

#3
May 27, 2015, 01:17:42 PM
Considering that even in areas with laughably easy drivers' license tests (Egypt: Drive 2 meters forward, then drive 2 meters backward), vehicular manslaughter is still frowned upon, one would think that getting a self-driving car put together would include a baseline functionality of "don't accelerate into a crowd". To think of that as "optional" is, well...

:developers:
DEVELOPERS!!!
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Nerm

#4
May 27, 2015, 01:42:50 PM
Detecting human pedestrians as an optional feature? Really?  :zomgwtfbbq:

icecream-guy

#5
May 27, 2015, 02:33:33 PM
car a la carte, do you want wheels with that?  I would definitely recommend the engine option!
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

dlots

#6
May 27, 2015, 02:39:14 PM
If it doesn't detect baby ducks or kittens they might as well just declare bankruptcy now

Dieselboy

#7
May 29, 2015, 03:05:59 AM
The classic TV show Knight Rider already covered this when they had the new model KITT (think it was red in colour). KITT's excuse for planning on ploughing through a deer in the road, was that the deer would not have caused damage to KITT. Completely logical from the cars perspective.

deanwebb

#8
May 29, 2015, 08:55:55 AM
Just to make matters more complicated, when a car encounters an object that it should stop for, but cannot stop in time to avoid striking, should that car swerve? How does the car determine where the least target-rich environment exists? How does it weigh the lives of the passengers vs. the life or lives of the persons in harm's way?

What happens in the programming of a driverless car when some idiot, and there are lots of these idiots, decides to run out across 8 lanes of freeway?
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

dlots

#9
May 29, 2015, 12:37:33 PM
New protocol, RDP (Real-time driving protocol), each car traveling in the same direction forms neighborsihps and lets other cars ahead know of issues, and their GPS quardanates

NetworkGroover

#10
May 29, 2015, 12:44:34 PM
Quote from: dlots on May 29, 2015, 12:37:33 PM
New protocol, RDP (Real-time driving protocol), each car traveling in the same direction forms neighborsihps and lets other cars ahead know of issues, and their GPS quardanates

Would hate to see what a reconvergence event looks like in that scenario....
Engineer by day, DJ by night, family first always

icecream-guy

#11
May 29, 2015, 01:03:03 PM
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

NetworkGroover

#12
May 29, 2015, 01:06:01 PM
Engineer by day, DJ by night, family first always

SimonV

#13
May 29, 2015, 01:20:43 PM
It would be link-state

:awesome:

Dieselboy

#14
June 02, 2015, 09:22:56 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on May 29, 2015, 08:55:55 AM
Just to make matters more complicated, when a car encounters an object that it should stop for, but cannot stop in time to avoid striking, should that car swerve? How does the car determine where the least target-rich environment exists? How does it weigh the lives of the passengers vs. the life or lives of the persons in harm's way?

What happens in the programming of a driverless car when some idiot, and there are lots of these idiots, decides to run out across 8 lanes of freeway?

I would like to know if speeding up is an option in the programming. The person who ran out in the road could jump. If the car is going fast enough, the person would jump over the car.
Seen it once on TV. 
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