Comments | toyyoda: new safety systems

toyyoda

new safety systems

Dec 08, 2012 11:49

I think it is backward that the new safety systems they are making for vehicles claim to "connect the driver more with driving." It is more likely a disconnect.
Unless when the system overrides the driver it yells, "WHAT ? ARE YOU STUPID ? NOT PAYING ATTENTION ?"
"YOU ARE AN IDIOT !"

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drive by wire, lane keep assist, vehicle stability control, radar cruise control, anti-lock brake system

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theheretic December 8 2012, 21:55:51 UTC

That is exactly the sort of thing you could hack in mere seconds using a laptop and the transmitter needed to run it, thus cause a deliberate "accident" or traffic jam. Its a way to enable crime. And it doesn't work unless ALL vehicles have it. So that will never happen ( ... )

toyyoda December 9 2012, 16:00:36 UTC

A good point of manual transmissions, few can drive with one anymore, and a manual has advantages ( ... )

Shape Recognition theheretic December 9 2012, 16:29:55 UTC

Radar isn't perfect. Some things reflect differently from others. A girl wearing chrome studs on a leather jacket will look like a huge truck on Radar. A piece of steel laid down on a road to cover a hole and is meant to be driven over, if the angle is not quite 90 degrees will look like an immovable barrier and the car will stop. Throw in augmented reality glitches, such as the computer wireframing what it thinks that radar signature means and displaying it like a real object on your windshield where it thinks it is, something google cars is likely to do eventually, and computer robotics interface designers have wanted since Neuromancer was published in 1984, its going to be more and more glitchy. There's a good article about this actually on Kneeslider. are-motorcycles-the-last-refuge-from-robot-transporters . Have a look. My primary counterargument for robotic drivers, which is what you're getting towards too, is that people are inherently able to rapidly identify and classify shapes, assess them as threats and where they're ( ... )

We are disposable theheretic December 9 2012, 16:53:13 UTC

Bears do attack cars. Been there, seen that. Black bears think people are tasty snacks. People aren't nearly wary enough of them. In serious bear country an appropriate rifle or shotgun with buckshot and slugs is entirely called for. Trouble is, bears run 40 mph, which is far faster than I can unlimber a gun and pop the safety if they're coming out of the brush or across a meadow, particularly if I don't see them first. Bears are scary monsters. They aren't common where I'm living now ( ... )