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This seems like a UI issue more than anything. How do we even have multi million dollar ships that are capable of violating the rules of the sea? It seems like
by drawnwren 9y ago
This seems like a UI issue more than anything. How do we even have multi million dollar ships that are capable of violating the rules of the sea? It seems like an ideal situation for a driver assistance type package that is able to be removed during combat operation.
- gaius 9y agoHow do we even have multi million dollar ships that are capable of violating the rules of the sea? If shipping lanes were like roads that might be possible, but they aren't and it isn't, because COLREGS don't work like that.
- drawnwren 9y agoThey arent, however the rules of the sea are very simple. More importantly a calculation of probability of collision between two slow moving giant metal objects would be easy.
- gaius 9y agoEver been a skipper manoeuvring in confined waters with multiple vessels around you? I have, and it is at least an order of magnitude more complex than anything I've ever encountered on the road.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoStill; assuming you can get good, real-time estimates of mass, rough shape, position and velocity vector of each of the ships around you, making a system to compute probable collisions sounds like a small undergrad-level project at best. What are the obvious things I'm missing here?
- gaius 9y agoYou would need to account for drag and windage. Basically know everyone's hull shape and CFD it! And the seabed under them. At a distance it's easy - but in confined waters it gets very complicated very quickly. I've seen situations where literally the only solution is, who do I collide with. In the case of the USN they have a hell of a lot more manoeuvrability than a freighter but they can't escape the laws o'physics...