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> But autonomous where you can go to sleep on the back seat or indeed summon a car to you? Probably 50 if not 100 years away. And not only because of technical
by jonknee 11y ago
> But autonomous where you can go to sleep on the back seat or indeed summon a car to you? Probably 50 if not 100 years away. And not only because of technical problems.
This capability literally exists today, there's no way it takes 50 years to make it to market.
- gambiting 11y agoThe capability we have today is working on fully mapped, well lit, dry roads. No one has an automatic car that could navigate in heavy snow/rain or unmapped terrain. There's very few ideas how to tackle it, unless we equip every road in some sort of trackers. I fully believe that in short time we will have all sorts of very clever cruise control systems which are essentially like Tesla Autopilot, maybe a bit more versatile. But fully autonomous vehicles? I stand by my statement that they are very far away for commercial distribution, unless you plan on selling them in Florida only, or only for use on private land.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThere's another HN post just today, on auto-driving in snow! So we are close.
- gambiting 11y agoI know, I actually read that article :-) It says that the car could navigate the snow-covered road based on the data it collected from the same street when it wasn't covered in snow. So.....I get the idea, but that's not really "working in snow".
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoBut that's about how humans do it. I think it was completely legitimate, worked fine, and can continue to work in the field.