Self-Driving Car Has Hard Time Detecting Stopped Vehicles

Good job Microsoft.

At least you'll have Cortana there to help Bing the nearest hospital after she plows you into a parked car.
 
Old_Way said:
One good moth 'splat' in the wrong sensor and there goes the car.
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They'll need to have redundant sensors, but that still forces people to wash their cars frequently.

Darunion said:
Little baby wipers for each sensor. Oh god the cost of those!
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Don't laugh, my old Mercedes had wipers on it's headlights. They might very well implement some sort of self cleaning mechanism.
 
Steve said:
It's a good thing that there was a human driver behind the wheel of this self-driving car to slam on the brakes or there would have been two crashes in this short ten minute drive.
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Yeah and in an Nvidia car all you'd have to do is say "Disengage Autopilot", wait for it to process that and give you control back so you can avoid the parked car.
 
Darunion said:
Little baby wipers for each sensor. Oh god the cost of those!
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Not wipers air curtain across surface from compressor or turbo bleed. My idea, you saw it here first.
on second thought turbo only works at high RPM. Definitely compressor.
 
gigaxtreme1 said:
Not wipers air curtain across surface from compressor or turbo bleed. My idea, you saw it here first.
on second thought turbo only works at high RPM. Definitely compressor.
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More likely some sort of quartz lens that can be made to vibrate a ultrasonic frequencies. That will literally throw the water/snow/dirt right off. Of course, this all adds more complexity and cost. Settle in people, it's going to take a lot longer than what the boosters are saying to get true self-driving cars. Hell, we still don't have decent heads-up displays with augmented reality (FLIR, etc.), even though the technology has been around for a while now. Changes in the capabilities of safety-critical products like cars take a long time. And they should. No need to rush in and make fatal mistakes. Look at how much a simple emissions scandal has cost VW.
 
Many issues to over-come: Operating Systems have bugs, computers crash and sensors fail. Massive infrastructure investment and one must consider interaction variables between autonomous and human controlled vehicles. Do people really want "big brother" monitoring their vehicles and movements in the name of motor safety?

The big question will be: if google glasses users are glass-holes what will everybody call early adapter of self-driving cars? Crash-holes?
 
And right after that "The vehicle is slowing down because of a person on the road" Yea right, there are pedestrians on the footpath. lol.

Thank goodness it wasn't a mustang. "Crowd surf mode activated".
 
You know, for a technology site, lately people around here really seem to dislike new technology.
 
Briguyatx said:
You know, for a technology site, lately people around here really seem to dislike new technology.
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Some peope dislike a technology that has a strong chance of hurting someone.
"self-driving " cars need much more advancement and testing before being put on a roadway.
 
Slyr7.62 said:
Some peope dislike a technology that has a strong chance of hurting someone.
"self-driving " cars need much more advancement and testing before being put on a roadway.
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We let 15yr Olds drive cars. A car system wouldn't have to work hard to be better than our minimum requirements lol
 
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NeoNemesis said:
My major concern with this technology is how well it will function in winter when all your sensors are blocked by ice/slush/salt/sand.
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I can answer this as I lived in the south most of my life but have lived in western NY for the past 5. Watch how the people in Atlanta or Texas drive when they get their once every 10 year snow storms, that is exactly how it will look.
 
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