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This is actually pretty disruptive.... ingenious.

This is a big problem in advanced research. You're trying to push grand ideas and get funding for them, but you don't have a real idea for what the timeline is going to be. Even research in private sector, bluechip companies like Ford this is important, because the executives and board control...

The Jugs have no need for a union, because they run this show now.

What advantages does that have over ?

By the time we get to the point where the traffic rules change such that no, you won't be allowed to break rank and meatbag drive, you'll probably want to use the autonomous system as it will be hurtling you across the interstate at 100+mph

Virtually every obstacle whether it's a garbage bag, stroller, box or turkey will be responded to in the same way: hard stop and wait for the obstacle to move away, or move around it if possible.. Google is doing some very amazing things with object analysis from lidar scans, but that's more for...

I don't have a projected timeline. Also the differences between level 2,3,4 and 5 are muddier than SAE will admit. It's arguable that until you can go from curb to curb, you're not at level 3. It's not an argument I'd care to have though, because it misses the core point, which is this: People...

Please contact your congressmen and tell them you care deeply about this issue and they should push for looser money in vehicular autonomy.

RIP pizza delivery. I actually think drones delivering pizza/jimmyjohns etc will become more prevalent than cars. And it's going to be awesome.

I agree, but standard units change. When driving outside of normal hours I have to realize I'm not driving with the regular pros of my commute but the shitter-class. People in their regular commute are actually very good drivers when it comes to normal speed.

Suggesting what is bullshit? The work the automotive industry is doing, including uber/google/tesla, volvo/bosch/ford/freightliner/gm/honda/fuckingeveryone, cmu/standford/mit is not bullshit at all. What is bullshit, or rather is too optimistic, is the idea that we're going to all be driven...

I'm not big into v2v stuff, but I went to a autonomous vehicles (AUVSI) conference recently and asked all the v2v guys what their security systems were. There's really no good answers yet. In the end I think the difficulty in doing so combined with the ease of creating havok with much simpler...

Aye, that's the basis of it and one of the big upsides of V2V comms. But it's going to be a long road to get there. And even when you're there, it's going to be a shitshow getting all the vehicles to abide by the same standard.

The camera operator will let you watch porn as long as you let the camera watch too.

What's funny about this is that until there is widely accepted V2V communication, the opposite will be true. You know how you drive on the freeway during rush hour and most people are driving 70mph+ like 2 car lengths away from the car in front them? An autonomous system will say fucking nope to...

Question is whether that's a good thing or not. Right now you have a X mph road that everyone travels X+10 on and gives police officers an easy reason to pull everyone over, but everyone is generally happy with the speed. If you systematically enforce it, you now have more traffic and people...

The problem is getting the data. GPS receivers like in your phone only receive the data and don't broadcast it. Cops would have to retrieve that data some how and don't tread on me.

The problem is that the type bonuses have the same impact as Same Type Ability Bonus (STAB). So a vapereon's water attack on a vap has the same benefit as an electric's attack on a vap.

I'm saying that not only will you be forced to go via the DMV-mobile to your approved destination during your approved curfew hours, but you'll also be monitored by your BigBrotherCam while doing it. This setup is double-plus good. Do you have something to hide, Citizen Aldarion?

Yep and the upcoming lidar are going to put the price point in the same range as the radar/cams that they are using. Tesla is trying to do a lot with just a radar and cam.

Oh, and my prediction on how the above question will play out: For decades OEMs will tell users, "Don't take fucking naps. Pay attention. if the autonomy system fails and you don't catch it, it's on your dumb ass." Much to Aldarion's dissent, a big part of autonomy development is a camera in...

This will be an interesting question. Shit will happen and people will die, but in many cases a failure of the autonomy system will be due to either a software defect, poor tuning, sensor failure or bad design. Up to this point the scope of what those vehicles were trying to accomplish were...

Unlikely. The car is people's second home, not just a transportation device. Cars are also inexpensive to own and operate for most people. And for people outside very dense areas you aren't just going to "hail" a car. If I need to go to the 24 hour drugstore at midnight for some formula, I'm...

No deal. Self driving cars have been available on the market since the 90s.

I'm not scared by it, but the loss of control and the possibility for abuse is there. Even more so than my house I feel like my car is my domain. I can get in, pump it full of gas and just go anywhere I damn well please and nobody can really stop me effectively.

I'd say that ABS isn't a good comparison. ACC is probably a better one. Autonomous cruise control system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It never really caught on for a variety of reasons that directly relate to further autonomy on vehicles. Basically: It costs more, doesn't work as well...

I absolutely can and debating it at this point is useless. Believe what you want about potential futures with potential technology, but the pace and and constraints of autonomous vehicles will likely disappoint you.

In vehicular autonomy lidar will almost certainly be augmented by radar and cameras. Those three sensors are great in different ways and combining them is very powerful.

Phrases like "of course" have no place in a serious discussion of this topic.

No idea about autonomous trains. My guess is they have different levels of autonomy depending on the application and the appetite for automation. When you're talking about this many-million dollar, many ton system carrying millions of dollars worth of goods, the cost of having a human managing a...

Doesn't go fast enough and isn't agile/small enough.

They can if they are looking directly at each other, and these type of lidar can get confused when it's in very close (sub 1 meter) to a reflective object (Like a flat piece of sheet metal). However all the reasonable configurations you might see have no problem with interaction between them...

Long range assisted teleoperation is a big part of my area of research. I can't say too much about it besides, yes, that's a thing in one way or another.

An autonomous vehicle's max speed is dependent on the conditions and safety risks. Right now autonomous vehicles on highway can go pretty much whatever speed is legal. In many conditions the autonomous vehicle's perception is much better than a human. In future systems the difference between an...

Another cool part about autonomy and robots. The core sensor in all of these is lidar, which are the big spinney things you see on most autonomous vehicles. The big one, the velodyne hdl64e, is $80,000. The smaller ones Ford is using now are the velodyne hdl32s which are 30k. Velodyne released...

This is exactly right. I don't think we'll ever drop passenger control over vehicles, it'll just become either discouraged or foolish. Ex: how it was in iRobot.

Autonomous trucks are a fun problem. The big challenge with breaking into them is that for passenger vehicles just being able to minimize the participation of the driver is great, but for autonomous trucks the goal is to remove the driver from the vehicle entirely. Adding levels of driver...

Even level 3 is amazing and will make a huge impact for a lot of people. I got to try bosch's super cruise (level 3) system last year and I can't wait to get one. Being able to just get o nthe freeway, hit a button and resume control when I'm near my destination will be a game changer.

Right, and the kind of commoditization that will allow that is farther away than the people selling those ideas want you to think. It's very cool stuff and will happen eventually, just don't get anxious when it's not here in a decade.