This could be fun.
Posted on 03/31/2016 7:00:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
"It can't find the lane markings!" Kerssemakers griped to Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was at the wheel. "You need to paint the bloody roads here!"
Shoddy infrastructure has become a roadblock to the development of self-driving cars, vexing engineers and adding time and cost. Poor markings and uneven signage on the 3 million miles of paved roads in the United States are forcing automakers to develop more sophisticated sensors and maps to compensate, industry executives say.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I guess that's why the EPA outlawed it. Not enough people getting killed because of unmarked lanes.
Then there’s the problem of oncoming corn-harvesters that take a half-lane on either side of the lane they’re in.
Lanes lines are unnecessary — if everyone follows the basic traffic laws.
Self-driving cars, where the government has ultimate control over the software. The software aggregates how many miles you travel, where you go, how often you go, etc. The government will collect all this data and tax you. Additionally, the government will allow you to go only certain places, restrict other places, allow you to travel only at certain times.
I really don’t think people are thinking through this wiz-bang technology. Why is this seeming fascination with removing you from controlling your car and placing that control in the hands of others. I only see freedom of movement both monitored and restricted by the government.
No thanks. Keep your Zuckerberg-Google-Buffett controlled technology.
This could be fun.
They need to make a grown up version of this pedal car and problem is solved.
More paint, more graft, more DOT employees voting.
This certainly is not news to drivers who drive long distances to places they have not been before.
Very hard to see lane changes on dark rainy nights and almost as hard to determine whether the sign means turn at this corner or the next.
Highway engineers are at the bottom of the brain pool.
In my home state up north, shoddy road work was a way to guarantee future employment for Uncle Vinnie’s paving company- it was common knowledge...
The goal is to make cars so expensive that the masses are force back to the city-gulag where they are more easily controlled.
So a Volvo engineered in snow country can’t find the lane markings and just stops?
L.M.A.O!!! More proof...Liberal hair brain ideas only work in a bubble.
So are people. Heck, people can’t keep their lanes when the paint doesn’t suck.
Robo cars can only operate in an environment dominated by cars where humans are making most of the traffic decisions. In an all robo car environment the cars will feed back loop each other to a stand still.
Behold, citizen - your Obamacar. Brought to you by Google and powered by your benevolent government.
Get in. Shut up. Be happy.
Once again the luddites show up and are the ONLY people talking about self-driving cars being centrally controlled. Nobody developing them is doing ANY form of central control, that whole idea exists ONLY in the brains of people against the technology.
Yup, No worries about Skynet from the robocar world.
Who didn’t see this coming? What about snowy roads? Temporary construction? Gravel roads?
Self-driving cars are at least 30 years from being “lawyer-proof” enough for public use.
Obviously you are not experienced in long distance driving.
On a rainy night, how do you stay in lanes that are not straight, that are intended for single purpose such as left turn only or straight ahead only?
You can’t be that ignorant so you must be a troll.
I can show you streets where it is very difficult to stay in the proper lane in broad daylight and a real sweat job on a wet night. Four lanes and so narrow you have a good chance of sideswiping.
One of the reasons night driving results in high fatality rates compared to day driving.
You have to be kidding, and especially in context of the complaint raised in the original article (a special purpose lane).
No, actually the goal is better cars. Sorry to burst your paranoid anti-tech fantasies, but out here in reality people can and do afford cars, even fancy high tech ones you find irritating.
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