(04-03-2018, 07:43 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(04-02-2018, 11:38 PM)B2hibry Wrote: You realize that multiple technologies and various forms of information are combined to achieve the task, right? Do you realize sensors are already placed in many roads for traffic coordination? How about solar powered lights embedded in pavement as directional markers? Cars are already gps enabled. Wifi enabled. Have automatic break features. Automatic parking, etc. You have a lot of concerns but none that haven’t been addressed with existing technology. None mentioned are impossible hurdles. Universities and States are working through smart infrastructure.

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I'm familiar with the technical aspect, but I note that you haven't answered any of the questions posed, beyond stating that the necessary technology currently exists.  Are you forgetting that it was a failure in that very technology that lead to this discussion/debate?  

My point, which you appear to be ignoring, is that the precision required for "traffic coordination" is not remotely adequate for total vehicle control, especially under less than optimal conditions.  Are you ready to trust your life to a solar powered sensor that a ten ton snowplow just scraped over?  GPS is great, but try taking the number off your mailbox and waiting for a pizza.

The SunTrax facility will be a great testing ground and I'm looking forward to seeing the results generated.  With positive results, the next step would be similar testing in winter conditions.  Until then, we're (literally and figuratively) a million miles away.

I get it, you’re concerned. I didn’t touch on each of your specific concerns because the information is literally at your fingertips. If you just read a tiny bit of what has already been published for years, you see we are right around the corner from reality, not millions of miles. Your snowplow concern has been tested in California and Minnesota. And GPS is somehow good enough for flight and military targeting but useless on a vehicle (Hint: It’s called GPS trilateralation)?

As far as the incident that started this discussion...it involved a private org attempting full autonomy, disregarding assistance from infrastructure. Basically cheaping out and disregarding federal involvement to form and function, ignoring technological progression. Like go from a little red wagon to a unicycle ignoring the inbetween. In any case, FIRSTs have issues and failures. Life as we know it would be pretty plain if hands were thrown up at the first failure!

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