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  1. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    @jihodj remind me new years day in 2019 about this bet
  2. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    No idea how correct the above is, I'm sure those elements of AI are used at different levels, but I expect the truth is much more complex and less elegant than what they publish (and that's ok). I'm fine with extending it to Dec 31, 2018. Let me know what you want the duration of the avatar to...
  3. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    The four spinny things on top are Velodyne HDL32 lidar, about $32k each (Ford gets an unknown discount I'm sure). Ford is working hand in hand with Velodyne to develop the next gen lidar. The course they are on is Univ Michigan's MCity autonomous testing course. I toured it when it opened and...
  4. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Ford is working on winter driving. Part of the problem is that the people speaking about vehicular autonomy are selling a product/brand, or are researchers trying to get grant money. All the automotive companies are in the dust compared to Google, and they're all trying to step up their game...
  5. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    I don't think Tesla will make that because: 1. They haven't demonstrated much yet. 2. They're generally late (and that's ok). I'm excited to see what they put out though. Let's do an avatar bet that Tesla doesn't have a level 5 autonomous car in the hands of consumers by Q1 2018. Note that...
  6. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    What's funny is the evening after I made this post I was approaching a red light during a sunset. As it turned green the car traveling perpendicularly to me and toward the sun screeched to halt in the middle of the intersection. He backed up and gave me a sheepish look as I safely turned on his...
  7. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

  8. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    In five years youll probably see freightliner, peterbilt and some others with very limited releases of freeway driving trucks being tested.
  9. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    What Tesla has in market now, supercruise, is imminent. It works well on the highway in good conditions. Delphi, Bosch et all have a system that's going into new cars and I think it'll be a standard feature in luxury cars in 5-10 years. But general purpose autonomy like the google car is...
  10. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I think at 1N/W you have a perpetual motion machine.
  11. Tuco

    The Hungry Games - Urban vs Rural

    Politics Thread
  12. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I think you'd just have something that would quickly burn up and a bunch of nerds would argue whether its orbit was decaying the right way. These things produce so much heat that thermal expansion of the heat sink is the primary possible error source.
  13. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    As cool as V2x is, it's not a generalized solution and future-looking autonomy is going to have to work on that dirt road in the back of your hunting ground, or anywhere really. Besides that, most vehicles won't know where they are with a huge degree of accuracy and you'll absolutely want some...
  14. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Very feasible and vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure comms are being actively worked on: Vehicle-to-vehicle - Wikipedia http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/V2V/Readiness-of-V2V-Technology-for-Application-812014.pdf
  15. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    The Impossible' EmDrive Thruster Has Cleared Its First Credibility Hurdle - D-brief
  16. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    There's a tremendous amount of focus on security and it's a huge issue but I think it'll end up being easier to hack vehicles by dropping a boulder off an overpass onto them. Somebody actually did that to my aunt and it was inches away from killing my cousin when he was a baby.