Artificial Intelligence | Discussion

[Matt]

I wonder if humans will have any control whatsoever over these cars though.

[lowenquicksilver]

May 6, 2016 12:55:18 GMT -6 Matt said:

I wonder if humans will have any control whatsoever over these cars though.

there should be a manual driving option

[Matt]

May 6, 2016 13:36:37 GMT -6 lowenquicksilver said:

May 6, 2016 12:55:18 GMT -6 Matt said:

I wonder if humans will have any control whatsoever over these cars though.

there should be a manual driving option

Yes I think so too

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

May 6, 2016 11:10:25 GMT -6 lowenquicksilver said:

One question I have is if we will need speed limits? and if we still do Would they be able to be programmed into the gps system?

Of course there will be limits. If nothing else, the cars themselves will naturally be limited in performance. Those Google cars don't have much power to begin with.

one issue with that is ppl won't want to buy them if they go the speed limit since most cities everyone is in a hurray

This is a G-Wiz, a small electric car produced in India from 2001 to 2012.



It is physically unable to break any speed limits, yet was popular enough to be in production for over 10 years. Even more amazing; Everyone hated it.

And this is a Ferrari 488 GTB.



It can pretty much exclusively exceed every speed limit.

2 cars on opposite ends of the spectrum; Both sell really well. There's almost always a market for every car. I can't say how well an autonomous car would sell, just that It's very likely it will sell.
Though in my mind, I imagine things like the Google car would serve more of a Taxi/Uber function, something you call for a lift, not something you'd want to own.

I wonder if humans will have any control whatsoever over these cars though.

Probably minimal control, if at all. After all, why invest in a self driving car, if you're still driving it?

[lowenquicksilver]

Though in my mind, I imagine things like the Google car would serve more of a Taxi/Uber function, something you call for a lift, not something you'd want to own.

That will take away a lot of jobs

[Matt]

May 6, 2016 16:30:18 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

May 6, 2016 11:10:25 GMT -6 lowenquicksilver said:

One question I have is if we will need speed limits? and if we still do Would they be able to be programmed into the gps system?

Of course there will be limits. If nothing else, the cars themselves will naturally be limited in performance. Those Google cars don't have much power to begin with.

one issue with that is ppl won't want to buy them if they go the speed limit since most cities everyone is in a hurray

This is a G-Wiz, a small electric car produced in India from 2001 to 2012.



It is physically unable to break any speed limits, yet was popular enough to be in production for over 10 years. Even more amazing; Everyone hated it.

And this is a Ferrari 488 GTB.



It can pretty much exclusively exceed every speed limit.

2 cars on opposite ends of the spectrum; Both sell really well. There's almost always a market for every car. I can't say how well an autonomous car would sell, just that It's very likely it will sell.
Though in my mind, I imagine things like the Google car would serve more of a Taxi/Uber function, something you call for a lift, not something you'd want to own.

I wonder if humans will have any control whatsoever over these cars though.

Probably minimal control, if at all. After all, why invest in a self driving car, if you're still driving it?

How would these cars judge for changing weather conditions though? a slick patch of ice or something they cant detect in advance?

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

May 6, 2016 18:28:46 GMT -6 lowenquicksilver said:

Though in my mind, I imagine things like the Google car would serve more of a Taxi/Uber function, something you call for a lift, not something you'd want to own.

That will take away a lot of jobs

Eventually, yeah it could sadly, but sometimes that happens. Exact same thing happened in the industrial sectors since machines work faster, better, longer and cheaper than humans.

[Matt]

May 6, 2016 18:28:46 GMT -6 lowenquicksilver said:

Though in my mind, I imagine things like the Google car would serve more of a Taxi/Uber function, something you call for a lift, not something you'd want to own.

That will take away a lot of jobs

That would be part of the problem too, The Taxi and public transit industry is quite large in most places around the school and for those jobs to be lost could be devastating to families and communities.

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

How would these cars judge for changing weather conditions though? a slick patch of ice or something they cant detect in advance?

Good point.

Just off the top of my head I can think of 2 solutions though.

One could be to just hook the car up to a weather service, and It would set its traction control and safety parameters according to the weather.

Or, modern Ferrari's actually come equipped with something they call the Manettino dial, or switch, located in the lower right part of the steering wheel.



You just turn the dial into the appropriate setting, this particular model has settings for Ice, Wet, Comfort and 2 sport settings. Naturally only 3 of those would be needed on autonomous cars. A bit of manual input.

[Matt]

May 6, 2016 18:51:38 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

How would these cars judge for changing weather conditions though? a slick patch of ice or something they cant detect in advance?

Good point.

Just off the top of my head I can think of 2 solutions though.

One could be to just hook the car up to a weather service, and It would set its traction control and safety parameters according to the weather.

Or, modern Ferrari's actually come equipped with something they call the Manettino dial, or switch, located in the lower right part of the steering wheel.



You just turn the dial into the appropriate setting, this particular model has settings for Ice, Wet, Comfort and 2 sport settings. Naturally only 3 of those would be needed on autonomous cars. A bit of manual input.

That's interesting actually. They would have to do something for the changing conditions