04-12-2016, 07:48 AM
It's pretty interesting. But geez....not using maps? Using hackers as the reason? Surely it's a limitation of their program, having to drive the route multiple times before the car can be put in auto. This is interesting because the mention the car has abilities to take alternative routes, if there is an issue going the shortest route.....
Well, that means one would have to drive the alternative routes, multiple times! If you have 3 or 4 multiple routes, then the normal route. This can add up to a large task to program your routes to the car.
Perhaps this is Google's plan to enter the market.
It would be nice to have my car drive me to work and there are plenty of routes I could eventually teach such a car (if I owned one) but this is still a pretty substantial limitation.
See, you would essentially require the owner of the car program the routes. However simple they make this feature, having a learning curve is unavoidable. Owners would have to learn how to have the car learn the routes. They would have set it up and literally program the car by druving multiple times per route and then multiple alternative routes for each destination, not only to the destination but back to the starting place (home). So say you have the car set up and ready for automatic driving, home to work and work to home, the main route and alternative routes. Then one day you want to go to work but then when you get off you decide to go to target. Even if you programed home to target and back, you would not be able to go from work to target. You see, it's a little more complicated and if you didn't see the problems with this limitation perhaps this might start peeping thru now. There will be a lot of programing on the owners part. And it sounds simple but gets really complex when you break it down. Not only would the car have a lot to keep up with, so would the car owner.
So, say you have been drinking and jump in your self driving automobile. You already have bar to home pre programmed and several alternative routes. Say its in the city and you live outside of town. All the routes from bar to home start off on a specific road and down to the interstate.
The day you get in intoxicated, the one road that all routes start off on was blocked off. The car has no alternative programed route for an issue on the main road leaving the bar. So what does the car do, it can't complete the task and the driver must drive and figure it out.
See, once you start having auto mode and use it. People will start depending on it. You can't program in every possible route for every possibility. Perhaps on a short "around the block" stretch. Perhaps even longer trips in rural areas with fewer roads and less activities.
I could go on and on.
I can't wait for self driving cars, but when I was young I dreamed of flying cars. Even flying cars that self drove.
It seems drone technology has a lot of potential, and perhaps the flying automobile should be rethought. Automatic flying drone vehicles, now that is a future I can smile thinking about
Well, that means one would have to drive the alternative routes, multiple times! If you have 3 or 4 multiple routes, then the normal route. This can add up to a large task to program your routes to the car.
Perhaps this is Google's plan to enter the market.
It would be nice to have my car drive me to work and there are plenty of routes I could eventually teach such a car (if I owned one) but this is still a pretty substantial limitation.
See, you would essentially require the owner of the car program the routes. However simple they make this feature, having a learning curve is unavoidable. Owners would have to learn how to have the car learn the routes. They would have set it up and literally program the car by druving multiple times per route and then multiple alternative routes for each destination, not only to the destination but back to the starting place (home). So say you have the car set up and ready for automatic driving, home to work and work to home, the main route and alternative routes. Then one day you want to go to work but then when you get off you decide to go to target. Even if you programed home to target and back, you would not be able to go from work to target. You see, it's a little more complicated and if you didn't see the problems with this limitation perhaps this might start peeping thru now. There will be a lot of programing on the owners part. And it sounds simple but gets really complex when you break it down. Not only would the car have a lot to keep up with, so would the car owner.
So, say you have been drinking and jump in your self driving automobile. You already have bar to home pre programmed and several alternative routes. Say its in the city and you live outside of town. All the routes from bar to home start off on a specific road and down to the interstate.
The day you get in intoxicated, the one road that all routes start off on was blocked off. The car has no alternative programed route for an issue on the main road leaving the bar. So what does the car do, it can't complete the task and the driver must drive and figure it out.
See, once you start having auto mode and use it. People will start depending on it. You can't program in every possible route for every possibility. Perhaps on a short "around the block" stretch. Perhaps even longer trips in rural areas with fewer roads and less activities.
I could go on and on.
I can't wait for self driving cars, but when I was young I dreamed of flying cars. Even flying cars that self drove.
It seems drone technology has a lot of potential, and perhaps the flying automobile should be rethought. Automatic flying drone vehicles, now that is a future I can smile thinking about