Google has reduced to the size of coffee cups the radar sensors and lasers its cars need to navigate roads by themselves, Urmson said.
What does the size of coffee cups have to do with this?
Those of us in the frozen north are left out (in the cold) again.
I believe the author was simply giving us a spatial point of reference so we could visualize what the sensors look like now (coffee cup) versus the size of the older sensors (KFC bucket). The sentence structure was a little disjointed though.
“topped out at 25 miles (40 kilometers) per hour”. That pretty much limits it to residential roads even in areas that don’t even see snow. The average speed is 35 mph on most city roads around here. The average speed limit on highways is 65, which means it must go at least 50 to still be legal.
Will the sensors know the speed limit of each road and will not turn onto roads and highways that are more than 25 mph? And slow down to 15 mph in school zones? Or, does that mean you need to keep your old car for trips with those variables?
They should be able to tie that in. Current market GPS devices display that data. No reason to think it couldn’t be modified to “push” it to other devices.
“…spinning, Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket.”
Sounds like the description of the first crash scene.
Google has reduced to the size of coffee cups the radar sensors and lasers its cars need to navigate roads by themselves, Urmson said.
What does the size of coffee cups have to do with this?
Those of us in the frozen north are left out (in the cold) again.
I believe the author was simply giving us a spatial point of reference so we could visualize what the sensors look like now (coffee cup) versus the size of the older sensors (KFC bucket). The sentence structure was a little disjointed though.
“topped out at 25 miles (40 kilometers) per hour”. That pretty much limits it to residential roads even in areas that don’t even see snow. The average speed is 35 mph on most city roads around here. The average speed limit on highways is 65, which means it must go at least 50 to still be legal.
Will the sensors know the speed limit of each road and will not turn onto roads and highways that are more than 25 mph? And slow down to 15 mph in school zones? Or, does that mean you need to keep your old car for trips with those variables?
They should be able to tie that in. Current market GPS devices display that data. No reason to think it couldn’t be modified to “push” it to other devices.
25 MPH? can you imagine getting stuck behind this car late for work??
Interesting that they are expecting the public to “push the technological boundaries into these more challenging situations.”
Can you say Product Liability, neighbor? I thought you could. (In my best Mr. Rodger’s accent).
radar sensors and lasers…. Don’t we have enough exposure to radiation already? It’s a war on human brain, pure and simple.