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Couldn't they have something like a real Human remote driver. That can intervene, but also can oversee multiple cars.
by _up 9y ago
Couldn't they have something like a real Human remote driver. That can intervene, but also can oversee multiple cars.
- ufo 9y agoDoes anyone here know if California driving law allows for remotely-operated vehicles like that?
- mikepurvis 9y agoHopefully not, at least not yet. That doesn't sound nearly as safe, or as accountable— you just wouldn't have the same situational awareness looking at sensor feeds vs. looking out the actual windows.
- sdenton4 9y agoWould need incredibly low latency for that to be safe, I think. FPS games use a pile of tricks to send minimal data over the network which wouldn't be available to an autonomous car: we don't have access to the game engine, after all...
- vidarh 9y agoIt would need to be very low latency if the cars can not take sufficient action fast enough to be safe. But if the cars get to a point where they are safe enough but where that safety comes at the expense of being overly cautious in some instances (refusing to drive through a sheet of water and deciding to stop) that may be acceptable. E.g. in the given example, the car only needs input to say pretty much "safe to proceed at low speed until past obstacle, then reassess".
- tim333 9y agoYou wouldn't automatically need low latency. In a situation like the above one the car could pull over and wait for the control center to tell it whether the drive on through the water or not. Not quite the same problem but the Starship delivery vehicles work a bit like that - remote link to a control center. http://uk.businessinsider.com/doordash-delivery-robots-starship-technologies-2017-3 http://uk.businessinsider.com/doordash-delivery-robots-stars...
- ClassyJacket 9y agoThat would require the car to have the ability to override its tendency to not drive thru physical obstacles. Remote control to say "go into that lane", "turn left" is one thing, but remote control to drive thru what it perceives as a physical object is different.
- _up 9y agoOnlive allowed gaming over a Videostream with minimal delay. ffmpeg[1] works too. [1] http://fomori.org/blog/?p=1213 http://fomori.org/blog/?p=1213
- stickfigure 9y agoAt least one company is doing exactly that with trucks, where the last mile is remotely controlled. This was on HN a number of months ago: http://fortune.com/2017/02/28/starsky-self-driving-truck-startup/ http://fortune.com/2017/02/28/starsky-self-driving-truck-sta...