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This additional source of income will only last until we fully implement ASR's - Autonomous Scooter Rebalancers.
by joejerryronnie 8y ago
This additional source of income will only last until we fully implement ASR's - Autonomous Scooter Rebalancers.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoJust have them self-drive to a charger.
- CamperBob2 8y agoThey are going to self-drive everywhere, I suspect. It's much easier to make a scooter or a bicycle autonomous than a car. There's at least one company around here working on self-delivering bicycles. The idea is that you call one up on your phone and wait by the curb, and the bike will come cruising up to you. When you're done, you just hop off, and the bike cruises to its next renter (or charger) rather than lying around littering the place up.
- maym86 8y ago> It's much easier to make a scooter or a bicycle autonomous than a car. No it's not. Less stable platform. Exact same issues with obstacle detection and avoiance, path planning and scene understanding with less available power for sensors and compute. Higher relative sensor cost. Fewer closed environments like highways. Added issue of being able to steal them more easily.
- CamperBob2 8y agoNone of those factors are of any importance whatsoever next to the key one: less likely to kill people when something goes wrong. Stealing a GPS-tagged autonomous bike or scooter is also not going to go especially well for whoever tries it.
- boxcardavin 8y agoExactly, our mistakes are not inherently catastrophic. Stability is actually much harder than navigating.
- boxcardavin 8y agoYo, I'm with that company doing the AV scooters and bikes, and yes it's much easier to nav than a car, we're looking at two magnitudes easier as far as computing power. We won't do autonomous with riders on-board so we can go slow and be conservative. Sensors are more than two orders of magnitude cheaper, we can use ToF laser rangefinders that are close to mobile phone grade.
- maym86 8y agoWhere are you testing?