If Google’s operating system in their car is anything like their operating system in my Smart Phone, I don’t want to get anywhere near their car. “Forced to close” is a common theme of my smart phone. How would that work with a car traveling 65 miles per hour?
I think we really owe Apple a favor here. By releasing their own mapping software on their new phone (which by Apple’s own admission is an unusable piece of garbage), Apple has done the world a great favor by pointing out the fundamental flaws and risks in permitting driverless cars.
The vast majority of people simply have no concept of the amount of human resources that it has taken to date to make the Google Map product what it is today. It can’t be done by computers, algorithms, or automation. Accurate and highly detailed maps require extensive human assets, and since new roads and construction projects are constantly ongoing the human asset requirement also has no end.
What would happen if a “Driverless car” was put on the roads using Apple or Microsoft’s database? Or a database made in-house by a car mfg like Ford or Toyota? What happens when the driverless car encounters things like massive construction projects where the lane markers, detours, and cone/barrel placement changes on an hourly basis? What happens when a construction crew closes an intersection or bridge but this data isn’t properly uploaded to a central server? Or if it’s uploaded to, say, Google and not to Bing Maps? Or uploaded to TxDoT which doesn’t in turn notify Google?
All of this “feel good” news about driverless cars is great, but there are SO MANY unanswered questions here. Are we just going to wait until the first person who is crippled or loses a family member to a driverless car has to sue for those answers?
This system uses so much more than maps. It uses radar and camera to develop real time evironmental input to navigate. It also communicates with other cars around it to gather data. Do not think that the engineers working on this have not put the time in to make it work.
What this will do is kill any hope fo reviving of passenger train travel. It should also cut into short haul airline travel. Now all we need to do is to get that natgas car on the road.
No big deal to have driverless cars in Cal. Most drivers already don’t use their brains now. This is just the next step.
The massive drop in auto insurance premiums means a massive drop in the need for lawyers – Hi Ho Hi Ho back to the asbestos mine they go.
If Google’s operating system in their car is anything like their operating system in my Smart Phone, I don’t want to get anywhere near their car. “Forced to close” is a common theme of my smart phone. How would that work with a car traveling 65 miles per hour?
Seems to me that California has bigger problems to solve that could have used the attention devoted to driverless cars.
Seems to me that this is Google solving problems not the state smart guy.
it’s all smoke and mirrors, CB.
I think we really owe Apple a favor here. By releasing their own mapping software on their new phone (which by Apple’s own admission is an unusable piece of garbage), Apple has done the world a great favor by pointing out the fundamental flaws and risks in permitting driverless cars.
The vast majority of people simply have no concept of the amount of human resources that it has taken to date to make the Google Map product what it is today. It can’t be done by computers, algorithms, or automation. Accurate and highly detailed maps require extensive human assets, and since new roads and construction projects are constantly ongoing the human asset requirement also has no end.
What would happen if a “Driverless car” was put on the roads using Apple or Microsoft’s database? Or a database made in-house by a car mfg like Ford or Toyota? What happens when the driverless car encounters things like massive construction projects where the lane markers, detours, and cone/barrel placement changes on an hourly basis? What happens when a construction crew closes an intersection or bridge but this data isn’t properly uploaded to a central server? Or if it’s uploaded to, say, Google and not to Bing Maps? Or uploaded to TxDoT which doesn’t in turn notify Google?
All of this “feel good” news about driverless cars is great, but there are SO MANY unanswered questions here. Are we just going to wait until the first person who is crippled or loses a family member to a driverless car has to sue for those answers?
This system uses so much more than maps. It uses radar and camera to develop real time evironmental input to navigate. It also communicates with other cars around it to gather data. Do not think that the engineers working on this have not put the time in to make it work.
What this will do is kill any hope fo reviving of passenger train travel. It should also cut into short haul airline travel. Now all we need to do is to get that natgas car on the road.