Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

Link to a PLOS ONE paper on the deep ethics of stealing stuff and how it relates to the insurance industry and WW1, incoming in 3...2...1

I'll sum up that paper, stealing is good if it is either a) from the Man or b) to feed the poor. Stealing is bad if it is the theft of a bike. WW1 was terrible but Black Adder was funny.

Can't we just have vacuum tubes like futurama?

I like how it recognises the second straight on arrow even though it's worn to shit.

I like how it driving at a speed slightly lower than people on bicycles (nearing the end).

Can't we just have vacuum tubes like futurama?

I would not rule out vacuum tubes in future autonomous transport devices.. A far cry from the 12AX7, 25L6 and 300B I think we might well see their comback in the form of nanoscale vacuum transitors.
See http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/cct/office/cif/2013/nanoscale_vacuum.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_pneumatic_railway

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pa­lace_pneumatic_railway

You forget, I think, the contemporary context: the Hyperloop

http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/103794/20151106/hyperloop-technologies-ceo-technology-arrive-five-years.htm

Which remind me of this;

http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/New_York_Pneumatic_Railroad

Base on the real thing;

or I didn't, but that seems less fun as a flippant interjection.

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/ford-self-driving-car-plan-google

This makes a lot of sense for Ford--- given their team and pole position. Integrating the driver is really quite hard. A lot of the other problems are already solved. The target of 5 years is quite realistic--- I'm expecting a number of off-the-shelf products a whole lot sooner.

I could imagine a nice demo showcase with traffic system integration in some place like Abu Dhabi-- they have already started to deploy quite modern traffic control systems.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/07/self-driving-cars-hog-the-road-at-ces

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-01/13/google-car-human-control
Google's cars have had to be taken control of by humans 341 times in 424,999 miles. Not bad!

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/makers-of-driverless-cars-want-cyclists-and-pedestrians-off-the-roads/018934

um, so, car maker worries that city roads will be overrun by people using forms of transport not made by his company?

Fucking cyclists, ruining it for everyone. AGAIN

Fucking French car makers, ruining it for everyone. AGAIN

ftfy

You forget this;

The cars California experienced 272 failures . If humans hadn't taken over driving, they would have crashed 13 times, the company has said.

Basically saying that once it been taken control by humans, the chance of a incident increased dramatically.

That's not what it's saying at all. Failure =/= crash in this case.
It's saying that of these 272 systems failures, if humans had not taken control, there would have been 13 crashes.

It was inevitable that there'd be a call to remove non-robocars from the roads. At the point where there is a saturation of those vehicles then it would be far more efficient to just have a load of networked vehicles, all knowing where the other is. Unpredictable elements will just slow down the traffic flow.

Cyclists are the traffic flow. They just need to get their engineers to lift their game.

I wonder if we'll be able to buy devices for bikes which will broadcast our position to other networked road users. Wouldn't help with 'unpredictable' behaviour, but would take out some of the processing work out of the sensor readings an autonomous car takes, or even just back up the sensor readings.
Not saying I want this, but wondering if it will happen

There's already a system in the wild where they issue chips to cyclists/etc so that hgvs can be aware of their presence without checking mirrors. can't remember what it's called though. @charlie_lcc (who should ignore this summon as I think he's off adventuring) knows what's what as he's got one on his handlebars.

http://road.cc/content/news/78299-new-system-uses-sensors-bikes-warn-lorry-drivers-when-cyclists-are-present