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This is a shockingly simple product to make "self driving". Why on earth do they have any controller, aside from some sort of emergency up button. Furthermore
by blobbers 3y ago
This is a shockingly simple product to make "self driving".
Why on earth do they have any controller, aside from some sort of emergency up button.
Furthermore, what the hell is the emergency plan???
This is going to cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The CEO who should be held criminally liable is inside the sub. I really, really hope they're found alive so that he can be held to account for this.
With regard to the people talking about COTS reliability of Microsoft, Logitech or whichever non mil spec components etc.
* Nobody tested that device when they had been working on an ocean going vestle.
* Nobody checked what happens if you have saltwater on your hands when you pick it up.
* Nobody checked what happens if it is exposed to salt fog for periods of time.
This is a potentially tragic event that I hope has a happy ending.
- jojobas 3y ago>The CEO who should be held criminally liable is inside the sub. The ultimate indemnity.
- accrual 3y agoPresumably the company could at least still be sued and have all assets liquidated. Perhaps some others will still be found liable.
- bigyikes 3y agoI’ll bite, how do you make a self-driving submarine? There’s no GPS under the ocean? I imagine you’d need some kind of sea floor SLAM which sounds… really hard?
- blobbers 3y agoYou know, once you challenged me on this I thought about a bit more and it seems its actually probably pretty hard short of using sonar off the sea floor. If you use inertial sensors, you're in a moving fluid which really messes up your ability to dead set navigate. That said, it seems like it would be much easier for a computer to handle this than a person, especially if it had already mapped the area.
- PragmaticPulp 3y ago> This is a shockingly simple product to make "self driving". No, it’s quite an engineering challenge to develop any robust self driving code, especially in safety critical applications. Having human controls would still be necessary as a backup even if they did have autopilot. Some of these armchair engineering comments about this project are incredibly optimistic or pessimistic.
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