Posted on 01/15/2018 12:04:54 PM PST by Enlightened1
Detroit (AFP) - Regulators will "carefully and responsibly" review General Motors' request to test an autonomous car without a steering wheel, US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Sunday.
"It is now coming to the stage with the rapid advancement of self-driving technology that this request is now a reality," Chao said on the sidelines of the Detroit Auto Show.
"So we will view the petition carefully and responsibly."
GM on Friday unveiled the Cruise AV, an autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, announcing it had asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to exempt it from a number of federal standards that cannot be met with a driverless car.
GM executives have said they planned to introduce a large-scale fleet of self-driving taxis by 2019, a timeframe some analysts consider ambitious.
GM released images of the Cruise AV and video of the interior with a strikingly spacious windshield devoid of a steering wheel.
"It's quite a striking image when people see it for the first time," GM president Dan Ammann told AFP on the sidelines of a GM event Saturday.
"I think people will want to engage with the technology and understand it and experience it," Ammann said.
"But I think what's really most powerful about what the technology can offer is an increase in safety on the road. And once people understand that and see and experience it, we think the adoption will be there."
"Its hard to generalize" about whether the public is ready for autonomous cars, Ammann said. "Some people are more than ready. And other people will be watching and seeing how it evolves."
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Maybe they’re admitting it isn’t safe.
US to ‘carefully’ review GM request on autonomous car: Ciao!!!
Bible Prophecy ping on the side - Daniel 12: (At the time of the end, knowledge shall increase and many shall run to and fro
Actual verse:
Daniel 12:4 King James Version
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
I’m sorry Dave, I cant do that....
Then slow the hell down, Hal!
We’re doing 95 in a 35 mph zone!..............
nOW Ethel Mertz & Lucy RICARDO CAN TALK NON-STOP!!!
Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
Oh great, now there’s blue lights!
You’ve gotten us a speeding ticket!................
[Road Boulders]
(I can’t find the clip of the boulders causing the pickup truck to crash into the Oriental Lounge)
Welcome to the Oriental Lounge!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_3ufnH7nPU
Not enough cupholders. Cars without drivers need plenty of space for stuff.
And they can take a huge leap. They can pull my cold dead hands off the steering wheel of my Dodge Challenger.
They could automate trains if they really wanted too. Biggest two problems are nobody wants to buy all that new equipment, and them thar unions that require two people in the engine even if neither of them are at the controls.
I’ve been reading some software design/testing blogs - after seeing this I shake my head and post the author’s comments on need for unit testing - then ask you if you’d trust your life to this thing...
“Think for a minute about your code. Do you have statements that include if, switch, for, foreach, while, do...while? Now think about traditional testing techniques where the developer writes the code, compiles it, checks it in, and then throws the executable over the wall to the QA team. They go to work, testing the running program, finding bugs, then throwing things back to the developer, who writes code, compiles it, checks it in, and throws it over the wall again. This cycle continues on and on and on.
Why does this cycle continue? One reason is the QA team has no idea where every if, for, foreach, while, etc. exist in the code. No, scratch that. They don’t know where any of those statements are in the code because they don’t see the code. How can QA possibly know how or where to test the application?
But it’s worse than you think. In his seminal book, “Testing Computer Software”, Cem Kaner talks about G.J. Myers who, in 1976 described a 100-line program that had 1018 unique paths. Three years later, Meyers described a much simpler program. It was just a loop and a few IF statements. In most languages you could write it in 20 lines of code. This program has 100 trillion paths.
Those numbers are daunting. How can you possibly test this? The short answer is, you can’t. The long answer is, Meyers had contrived examples, but they do show how complicated code can be and how important it is for the developer to write unit tests.”
Attribution:
(*Software Gardening: http://www.dotnetcurry.com/aspnet-mvc/1043/unit-testing-aspnet-mvc-application)
Lol
[You’ve gotten us a speeding ticket!................]
Don’t worry, I have Instant Autopay, rider.
$300 deducted from your bank account and routed to Resume Speed, Ohio. Plus a transaction fee of $12.50.
And now, for your traveling pleasure, Morris Albert and “Feelings”......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyBcHUe4WeQ
Yeah they will be more apt to do it when they are not going to die in the car.
Lol
Having written thousands and thousands of lines of software, yes there are many unexpected situations. Good practices and standards minimize the risk, but then you’re not going 70mph with closing speeds 2x or more. It’s close to impossible to anticipate every problem. Especially real-world.
That’s why backups are essential - to erase and start over. Pretty difficult with your life.
In the 1980’s, I worked on financial package software (one particular assignment), where one program, just ONE of hundreds of programs in the package, had in excess of 20,000 lines of source code. What a nightmare.
One guy in Mexico back in the 90’s or the 1990’s put a soda fountain into the dash of his car. Had the syrup and carbonated water tanks in the trunk and ran the lines to the dash.
Had like 5 choices. Of course you need ice to make it perfect.
I was kinda jealous....
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