Autonomous Vehicles

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Vice News had an intriguing special report recently that led me to a company, and I found a town hall last evening (then got into researching two things and lost the link - sorry!) the company did with truckers, and one of the issues they still are trying to figure out is how to better protect their laser guidance/sensory system while also keeping it in position to be the most accurate that it can be. I do know that was one major issue that took nearly a decade with agricultural GPS to get where it's at now, and even then, it can get knocked out by the right hit to the vehicle by a pheasant or something like that.

I suppose that's possible but in Teslas and GMs, all the hardware is integrated into the vehicle bodywork. You can't even really tell it's there because it's protected by metal and plastic. 

 

For example, here's where one of the sensors is located on Teslas:

[biggentleben]

 

I suppose that's possible but in Teslas and GMs, all the hardware is integrated into the vehicle bodywork. You can't even really tell it's there because it's protected by metal and plastic. 

 

For example, here's where one of the sensors is located on Teslas:

 

Yeah, I was just talking the trucks. One thing this company was still doing was keeping the full gas engines. That meant the vehicle could not be fully autonomous as while it could pull itself into a gas station, the "rider" would at least need to fill the gas tank. I'm curious how that issue with location changes with different engines as they transition to hybrid and eventually full electric engines. I know the concern of some with tractor trailers transitioning to full electric is handling the pull of a full load in varied terrain.

 

I still think it's an incredible shame that we can push hard on electric, but pushing hard at full implementation of a non-petroleum fuel source is non-existent because of "big oil" and their influence on Detroit.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Yeah, I was just talking the trucks. One thing this company was still doing was keeping the full gas engines. That meant the vehicle could not be fully autonomous as while it could pull itself into a gas station, the "rider" would at least need to fill the gas tank. I'm curious how that issue with location changes with different engines as they transition to hybrid and eventually full electric engines. I know the concern of some with tractor trailers transitioning to full electric is handling the pull of a full load in varied terrain.

 

I still think it's an incredible shame that we can push hard on electric, but pushing hard at full implementation of a non-petroleum fuel source is non-existent because of "big oil" and their influence on Detroit.

Anyone who questions the ability of an electric motor to pull a load doesn’t understand how electric motors work.

 

100% torque from 0 RPM. The things are beasts, which is why Teslas are known for their ability to throw a person back in their seat harder than some supercars three or four times the price.

 

There’s a reason why many trains are electric nowadays. They use a diesel motor only for electrical generation but the actual power delivery to the rails is delivered by electric motors because they can produce 100% torque at very low RPM.

[biggentleben]

 

Anyone who questions the ability of an electric motor to pull a load doesn’t understand how electric motors work.

100% torque from 0 RPM. The things are beasts, which is why Teslas are known for their ability to throw a person back in their seat harder than some supercars three or four times the price.

There’s a reason why many trains are electric nowadays. They use a diesel motor only for electrical generation but the actual power delivery to the rails is delivered by electric motors because they can produce 100% torque at very low RPM.

 

It's change. Having the truck not operated by a human is one thing. Getting my load from point A to point B is the main concern, and some who rely on truck transport are the ones who really push industries like coal, so, yeah.

[Doomtints]

Aught Ominous vehicles are a smashing idea.

[Mike Sixel]

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/5/16/18625127/driverless-cars-mirage-uber-lyft-tesla-timeline-profitability

[Craig Arko]

How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?

 

https://aeon.co/amp/ideas/how-do-you-teach-a-car-that-a-snowman-wont-walk-across-the-road

[ashbury]

How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?

 

https://aeon.co/amp/ideas/how-do-you-teach-a-car-that-a-snowman-wont-walk-across-the-road

Jaywalking was never a crime until it was decided that vehicles ought to have the right of way except at controlled crossings. With the advent of autonomous vehicles, the penalties for jaywalking will have to be increased to include jail time, lest an innocent vehicle have to spend time sorting out a potential jaywalker versus a stray plastic shopping bad fluttering in the breeze. Oh wait, we're already in the process of banning those, so jail time will be only a last resort for littering harmful to a robot.

 

I keed. Bottom line, if autonomous vehicles need a little more control in their environment, and we want that world badly enough, we'll adapt, probably without quite resorting to police state tactics to achieve it.

[Brock Beauchamp]

How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?

 

https://aeon.co/amp/ideas/how-do-you-teach-a-car-that-a-snowman-wont-walk-across-the-road

I don’t even need to read the article to know what it’s about (but I will) and it’s one of the biggest hurdles of autonomous driving: predicting the unpredictable. Humans. We’re insanely irrational and erratic creatures.