Not coming to motorcycles anytime soon

[boyoboy]

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:shrug: For every cherry-picked instance you can come up with PP I could just as easily find examples of situations where a human pilot intentionally flew his plane into the ground, the ocean (or another ocean...) or into buildings because of irrational human reasons: debt, religion, anger or mental illness, drugs/alcohol, stupidity etc etc. These are situations where if a rational computer were at the controls people would not have died and, hell, wars may not have begun...

I'm not sure why you believe that automated systems must be "101%" -- whatever that means -- trustworthy. The tipping point would be when they can be demonstrated as being equal to or better than humans at given tasks. We can always analyse hazards and, through rigorous risk management, attain risk levels that are deemed acceptable; nothing is 100% "trustworthy", not even the most advanced airliners or spacecraft. Again, I think you're defensively setting the bar at unattainable levels for automation for personal reasons, not rational or practical ones.

P.S.

flying into buildings har har har

911 was a demolition cover up. with an absurd government account. I love the video of a cop running out of building 7 shouting "get back they're going to blow it up" before it was dropped demolition style.

 

[PrivatePilot]

 

[boyoboy]

lmao, 1000+ engineers, architects, pilots and DeHavilland himself must be wearing them - I would guess they work. explain to me how building seven dropped untouched ..with a cop running out telling people to get back. building 7 was not mentioned by the government commision.

evil fluorishes where good men do nothing.

 

[Neil_V]

Talk to a structural engineer about the NIST reports... I'm lucky enough to be friends with one whom I could question after some of the things I read on the interweb. His opinion is much closer to the "truthers" than that of the official commission report. There's more than meets the eye; granted, there's also a lot of crap... Judy Wood's death ray anyone? lol

Anyway, that's as much as I'm going to say on 911 around this place as any attempt at meaningful discussion will just turn into name calling..

Ah GTAM; where a video of a tesla can turn into 911 truth.

 

[MacDoc]

Driverless cars to hit the road in Ontario early next year
Three groups have been approved to test self-driving cars on public roads in Ontario.

https://www.thestar.com/business/20...-hit-the-road-in-ontario-early-next-year.html

 

[-D-]

I saw the news clip last night showing the Fords and Aviva supporting these cars.
Ontario is the test bed (damn us, why not in the NWT, lol).

It was interesting watching the cars brake themselves, the driver just sat there.
What is scary is you will have more ppl texting or distracted because well, they do not have to worry about hitting something as the car will take care of it for them. Lane departure aids, adds to the problem. I guess we are on the way to true driverless cars, why own a car, just have a roaming rental Uber fleet...lol.

I wonder how they deal with the autobraking during a driving test...lol...Ford says all 2017+ cars will come equipped with autobraking.

 

[PrivatePilot]

Autobraking only comes into play in the case of an imminent collision, or on some vehicles with adaptive cruise control they will apply the brakes as part of maintaining spacing, however only went on cruise control mode.

The Volvo tractor that I'm sitting in right now as autobrake for imminent collision avoidance.

 

[-D-]

the news piece showed the driver getting up to 30km/h and just drove straight, driver did not touch the brakes, car stopped by itself. I did not hear mention of cruise control being used.

Use the autobrakes with a cruise control setup is good for traffic flow and fuel consumption, plus ppl falling asleep.

uhm are you texting and driving now we know how you do it

 

[Blackfin]

I saw the news clip last night showing the Fords and Aviva supporting these cars.

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I guess we are on the way to true driverless cars, why own a car, just have a roaming rental Uber fleet...lol.

For this reason I wonder why Ford (e.g.) supports full autonomy. What will be the point of having one's own vehicle at that point and what does that do to the traditional auto manufacturing/sales model?

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