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The lack of turn signals makes me highly suspicious. There is more to this omission than meets the eye, I am quite sure of it. As you say, adding turn signals i
by to3m 14y ago
The lack of turn signals makes me highly suspicious. There is more to this omission than meets the eye, I am quite sure of it. As you say, adding turn signals in should be straightforward. The computer presumably has its turns planned far enough in advance. So why doesn't it?
I am actually even less inclined to trust these so-called "self"-driving cars now. Not like I even trust the human-driven variety all that much...
- elsurudo 14y agoThe lack of "support" for turn signals is probably a way to ensure that a human is always present and aware during operation. It's a really clever, simple solution. They've turned the absence of a feature into a feature. I don't know why the Google engineer would lie about it, though.
- haakon666 14y agoIf the turn signals are not on the CAN bus it could be annoying to implement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
- to3m 14y agoThey've made a self-driving car. The merely annoying parts are going to be the fun bits! Everything else is going to be difficult, if not bordering-on-impossible. I find it very difficult to believe that there is any technical barrier to computer-operated indicators.
- tzs 14y agoWouldn't it be sufficient to wire in a computer controlled switch in parallel to the mechanical switch that the human uses to control the turn signals? Or just add a new set of turn signals independent of the built-in ones.