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Self-Driving Car

brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,699
edited April 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
I saw a silver version of this self-driving Prius in town today. It was parked halfway between two parallel parking spaces. I'm not saying this car is necessarily a bad idea but I couldn't help but wonder- what if those parking space lines were the lines at a busy intersection or a railroad crossing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE
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  • FrankieGFrankieG Posts: 9,100
    The car drives itself based on gps, optical sensors, and radar. It probably uses other sensors too.

    It's not using the lines to park, It's using every sensor to park and I'm very sure they took everything like that into account.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,699
    FrankieG wrote:
    The car drives itself based on gps, optical sensors, and radar. It probably uses other sensors too.

    It's not using the lines to park, It's using every sensor to park and I'm very sure they took everything like that into account.

    No doubt, but what concerns me is that there was plenty of room for the car to park properly. Again, what if that line was at a busy intersection?
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  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    A self driving Prius. I think I just stained my shorts! :lol:
  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    i'm analog
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,699
    DS1119 wrote:
    A self driving Prius. I think I just stained my shorts! :lol:

    :lol:

    It looks a little like something the Jetson's might drive. 8-)
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  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    brianlux wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    A self driving Prius. I think I just stained my shorts! :lol:

    :lol:

    It looks a little like something the Jetson's might drive. 8-)


    Thing is I'm in the automotive business and this technology coming to market is not as far away as most people think. :shock:
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,699
    DS1119 wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    A self driving Prius. I think I just stained my shorts! :lol:

    :lol:

    It looks a little like something the Jetson's might drive. 8-)


    Thing is I'm in the automotive business and this technology coming to market is not as far away as most people think. :shock:

    Hmmm... come to think of it, there are mornings when I wouldn't mind having the thing drive itself and me to work... :lol:
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Posts: 13,527
    81 wrote:
    i'm analog
    LOL this ^^^^^^ . I love driving myself.. would be ored shitless if my car did all the driving! HOWEVER.. would there then be a rule against drunk riding!?!?!?!? ( but Officer the CAR was driving not me.)?
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    whispering hands wrote:
    81 wrote:
    i'm analog
    LOL this ^^^^^^ . I love driving myself.. would be ored shitless if my car did all the driving! HOWEVER.. would there then be a rule against drunk riding!?!?!?!? ( but Officer the CAR was driving not me.)?


    You may be on to something here. :think:
  • conmanconman Posts: 7,493
    DS1119 wrote:
    whispering hands wrote:
    81 wrote:
    i'm analog
    LOL this ^^^^^^ . I love driving myself.. would be ored shitless if my car did all the driving! HOWEVER.. would there then be a rule against drunk riding!?!?!?!? ( but Officer the CAR was driving not me.)?


    You may be on to something here. :think:
    interesting...
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    What about all of those GPS fiascos we've seen of people (OK, not the brightest folks) following the directions right into a lake?

    What if that'd happened to the blind dude in the clip while he was mightily enjoying his food behind the wheel? :D

    Me, I'd rather have control over my driving than have my car taking the reins.

    I trust myself and my own senses / sensors a helluva lot more.
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,699
    hedonist wrote:
    What about all of those GPS fiascos we've seen of people (OK, not the brightest folks) following the directions right into a lake?

    What if that'd happened to the blind dude in the clip while he was mightily enjoying his food behind the wheel? :D

    :o ... :fp:
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    a self driving car? whatever next... vibrating fudds????
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    I think it's self parking as opposed to self driving? You can't go faster than, say, 20km/hr for it to park itself very slowly and very badly.

    I embrace a good parking challenge, won't let no sensor help me :D
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