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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 08, 2023, 06:07:41 am ---I think the happy medium would be to have self driving corridors.  Make all highways have the infrastructure in place. Once you hit a town then you have to take over for the side streets.
The infrastructure could be as simple has having posts with transponders of sort on them or even just QR codes or other subtle markers that are easy to pickup by automation.

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I don't think that will ever happen.
They all can't agree on what type of charger plug to use and how you pay for it. I have no less than half dozen different EV charging app on my phone.

For self driving cars to succeed in the market they must be able to operate within existing infrastructure.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on March 07, 2023, 07:50:30 pm ---We can't even manage self-driving trains that stay on the rails, except for some small closed-circuit applications like airport trams.
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Our new Sydney metro system is driverless. No issues yet that I aware of.
10 order of magnitude difference in complexity in that and what FSD needs in the real worlds though.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on March 07, 2023, 06:16:48 pm ---I've no interest at all in one that I might be expected to take over and drive if the computer sees something it can't cope with, though. The entire use case for a self driving car revolves around the fact that there are times when I can't drive it, or, by extension, take responsibility for it.
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Yes, there is only downside to a system where you have to assume control at a split seconds notice. It's either 100% drunk in the back seat or it's just glorified cruise control.

james_s:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 08, 2023, 05:34:17 am ---But the controversial bit in the whole thing is that due to population growth and more and more people staying or becoming single there is the need for >100000 new homes build every year.  :-DD

P.S. the population growth is not due to birth, but due to the in stream of asylum seekers.

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Perhaps they should close off the border and stop allowing them to flood in? This is something that has often bothered me, all sorts of countries have people flowing in seeking refuge from other countries. I would rather help them sort out the problems in their own country whichever that may be rather than fleeing and adding to the strain of another area.

Bottom line I guess is that the human population around the globe is massive and growing at an incredible rate. This is not sustainable and sooner or later something catastrophic is going to happen. It's relatively easy to not reproduce, I've never really understood why so many people so strongly wish to do it, and yet most of the parents I know are exhausted and miserable all the time.

pcprogrammer:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 08, 2023, 07:56:36 am ---
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 08, 2023, 05:34:17 am ---But the controversial bit in the whole thing is that due to population growth and more and more people staying or becoming single there is the need for >100000 new homes build every year.  :-DD

P.S. the population growth is not due to birth, but due to the in stream of asylum seekers.

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Perhaps they should close off the border and stop allowing them to flood in? This is something that has often bothered me, all sorts of countries have people flowing in seeking refuge from other countries. I would rather help them sort out the problems in their own country whichever that may be rather than fleeing and adding to the strain of another area.

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I feel the Dutch are always trying to be the "best boy in the class", but the problem is much bigger then just the Netherlands. The whole immigration and refugee mishap is being handled at EU level mostly and it is frowned upon when one country within the EU decides to close its borders for these asylum seekers.

I agree with you that it would be better to deal with it in the country of origin, but that brings a whole other can of worms. What to do with dictators and their followers that wreak havoc on others making them flee. You would have to invade and destroy them to try to rebuild a democracy and hope it will stand the test of time.


--- Quote from: james_s on March 08, 2023, 07:56:36 am ---Bottom line I guess is that the human population around the globe is massive and growing at an incredible rate. This is not sustainable and sooner or later something catastrophic is going to happen. It's relatively easy to not reproduce, I've never really understood why so many people so strongly wish to do it, and yet most of the parents I know are exhausted and miserable all the time.

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My feelings too. Neither me or the wife ever had the primordial desire to reproduce.  >:D

Only time will tell were it all ends up.

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