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It wouldn't be that hard to put a scanning radar at the front of the thing and look 10 miles ahead so you have time to steer around others.
by t0mas88 6y ago
It wouldn't be that hard to put a scanning radar at the front of the thing and look 10 miles ahead so you have time to steer around others.
- arethuza 6y agoAt about 10m height the horizon is only ~11km away - fine for a ship but if you are going 550km/h in something that doesn't look wildly manoeuvrable it might be quite exciting.
- t0mas88 6y agoStill gives you a full minute to steer around something. But probably requires some automated system to decide on "collision or not" because that would be hard to do on time manually at such a distance. If you start steering 30 seconds after detecting an object you would still be 5+ km away, so assuming a ship is at most 200m long you would only need a 3 degree course change to miss it by more than a ships length. Maybe make it 5 degrees to miss it by 400+ meters.