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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
Imagine saying it on the phone to someone who doesn't speak the same language? Is it possible without resorting to lima, india, golf ..?.
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
Time of flight laser scanners (LIDAR). Scanners on each side of the truck measure the shape of the wall. you drive the truck down the tunnel once (in one system) it stores a map of the wall shape and then follows the same shape to keep the
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
Unless no-one can find you because your name has a billion higher ranking google hits, or because nobody can remember it, or because you are aiming at the international market and your name is an insult in chinese.
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
They are diesel powered trucks which navigate by following the wall profile - slightly confusingly they are often called 'trams' because moving muck underground is called 'tramming' from the original medieval mine railways!
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
It's not racist - even people from Milan are scared of Roman drivers !
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
GPS tends not to work terribly well 1000m underground. They use a combination of laser scanners following the contours of the wall and triangulating from fixed reflective prisms. Sometimes around crushers/trains you use buried electric cabl
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
http://www2.sandvik.com/sandvik/0120/Internet/Global/S003713... http://www.mining-technology.com/features/feature41780/
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
One other small concern - are any of the programmers behind this from Rome? Because if the AI on this system is designed by Roman drivers it might be safer for everyone to move out of Asia for the duration of the trip.
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by edfvbrfgb 16y ago
I work on these systems in mining. With a human driver a mine car is limited to 12-20kmh with one vehicle in each 100m block for safety, on an automated level with no people present there are no limits. We can do 60km/h with vehicles only a