Self-driving vehicles sound incredible because they are.
I am honestly amazed at how well that tech works, and absolutely horrified knowing there are folks and corporations making and using it on our public roads and hwys.
Until we meet the 3 big factors for this to work it should not be used on public roads and hwys. Right now we're not even looking at two of them. We have no vehicle to vehicle or road to vehicle communication at all. And none of those companies are looking at how they might pay for it, not even as a industry.
And when you consider how many miles of roads and hwys we have it seems pretty near an impossible task because you have to maintain that infrastructure.
Just a few days ago I read a post here by someone who'd just been rear-ended by a Telsa. It hit him twice! It smacked into him while they were sitting still at a stop sign and then smacked into him again before it shut down.
They said the "driver" was on full autopilot and I think they said the Telsa had a camera lens that had something blurring it's view. Either on the lens or the windshield. But that may have been a different crash someone else commented about.
Either way their "Fresh Approach" is as stale as all the rest unless they're talking about how to deal with those 2 missing components of this task. And right now it looks like they're not even looking at that.
Their home page has a long list of their fundraising success though.
I am honestly amazed at how well that tech works, and absolutely horrified knowing there are folks and corporations making and using it on our public roads and hwys.
Until we meet the 3 big factors for this to work it should not be used on public roads and hwys. Right now we're not even looking at two of them. We have no vehicle to vehicle or road to vehicle communication at all. And none of those companies are looking at how they might pay for it, not even as a industry.
And when you consider how many miles of roads and hwys we have it seems pretty near an impossible task because you have to maintain that infrastructure.
Just a few days ago I read a post here by someone who'd just been rear-ended by a Telsa. It hit him twice! It smacked into him while they were sitting still at a stop sign and then smacked into him again before it shut down.
They said the "driver" was on full autopilot and I think they said the Telsa had a camera lens that had something blurring it's view. Either on the lens or the windshield. But that may have been a different crash someone else commented about.
Either way their "Fresh Approach" is as stale as all the rest unless they're talking about how to deal with those 2 missing components of this task. And right now it looks like they're not even looking at that.
Their home page has a long list of their fundraising success though.