Snack

Well-Known Member
"The auto industry is on an accelerating change curve. For hundreds of years, the horse was the prime mover of humans and for the past 120 years it has been the automobile. Now we are approaching the end of the line for the automobile because travel will be in standardized modules. The end state will be the fully autonomous module with no capability for the driver to exercise command. You will call for it, it will arrive at your location, you'll get in, input your destination and go to the freeway." - Bob Lutz

Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye
 

Coldworld

Well-Known Member
Who cares.... when that meteor slams into the earth all this sht won't matter one bit.... let Mother Earth finally fix what us humans have totally fked up over the last 5000 years!!
 

Faceplanted

Well-Known Member
"The auto industry is on an accelerating change curve. For hundreds of years, the horse was the prime mover of humans and for the past 120 years it has been the automobile. Now we are approaching the end of the line for the automobile because travel will be in standardized modules. The end state will be the fully autonomous module with no capability for the driver to exercise command. You will call for it, it will arrive at your location, you'll get in, input your destination and go to the freeway." - Bob Lutz

Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye
Bob lutz is an idiot
 

35years

Gravy route
Researchers Find a Malicious Way to Meddle with Autonomous Cars

Researchers Find a Malicious Way to Meddle with Autonomous Cars

In one example, explained in a document uploaded to the open-source scientific-paper site arXiv last week, small stickers attached to a standard stop sign caused a vision system to misidentify it as a Speed Limit 45 sign...

The algorithms created by Kohno and colleagues at the University of Michigan, Stony Brook University, and the University of California are designed to be printed on a normal color printer and stuck to existing road signs. One attack prints a full-size road sign to be overlaid on an existing sign. In this example, the team was able to create a stop sign that just looks splotchy or faded to human eyes but that was consistently classified by a computer vision system as a Speed Limit 45 sign.

A second exploit used small, rectangular black-and-white stickers that, when attached to another stop sign, also caused the computer to see it as a Speed Limit 45 sign...

If a future self-driving vehicle could be tricked into responding incorrectly to a sign, it could be made to blow through a stop sign or slam on its brakes in the fast lane.
 

Thebrownblob

Well-Known Member
Wait until the lawyers get involved.

"Been hit by driverless truck"? "Better call Saul"!
State legislatures are hard at work crafting new laws, giving giant corporations almost complete in total immunity to giant corporations wanting to use these autonomous vehicles. While we’re not paying attention, they’re giving our way or rights.

In my own state, our Democrat governor, who promised never to let this happen, signed a law, letting it happen. The first chance they got when one of these corporations slashed some money in front of their face.
 

rod

Retired 23 years
I was under the impression that UPS was already running "driverless feeders" from Phoenix to Tuscon. Am I wrong? Not 100% driverless because they do have a human riding along "just in case".
 
I was under the impression that UPS was already running "driverless feeders" from Phoenix to Tuscon. Am I wrong? Not 100% driverless because they do have a human riding along "just in case".
They did testing for a local company thats now nearly bankrupt. Haven't heard about it going on for a while now.
 

dudebro

Well-Known Member
No automation will happen all at once. It will be easy cases like a giant feeder lot in El Paso to another giant feeder lot in Phoenix and the roads in between are almost like a rail service 360 days a year when the sun is shining. Until you see those running regularly, all the other use cases like meandering through city boulevards will be human drivers because those things are still "too hard".
 

sailfish

Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
This thread reminded me of a hilarious story I had saved on my computer from a long time ago. Author, I have no Idea.

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It's the year 2025. I get up to go to work and grab the keys to my vintage 1995 Honda Civic. As I start the car, alarms suddenly start ringing.

"MANUAL CAR ALERT! MANUAL CAR ALERT!"

Self-driving Google cars cruising past my driveway suddenly stop and transform into gender neutral Police Bots.

"STOP RIGHT THERE, CIS SCUM! DRIVING NON-SELF-DRIVING CARS IS ILLEGAL"

I slam my shifter into reverse and shoot out of there faster than Elliot Rodger at a social gathering. The Police Bots transform back into self-driving Google cars and begin chasing me. As I approach 90km/h, the Google cars fall far behind as they can only go up to 40km/h. Just when I think I'm in the clear, suddenly my engine stops running. My speakers exclaim:

"You seem to have Police pursuing this vehicle. Shutting down."

:censored2:, I forgot about the computer chip that every manual car had to have installed into it by Google. Out of nowhere a Google self-driving car smashes into me because they are not programmed to calculate every scenario. Disoriented with mild whiplash, I see Police Bots speeding my way. I close my eyes and take a deep sigh. This is how I'm going to die. I light up my last cigarette. The Police Bots have me surrounded.

"YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR DRIVING A VEHICLE AND SMOKING NICOTINE. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REM--"

Suddenly, a 1976 Pontiac Trans Am rams through the Police Bots. The smoke clears and the stranger winds his wind down. It's Burt Reynolds!

"You might want to get in here, kid."

I get in the car and we drive into the desert where Burt tells me that a resistance group is forming. This is my home now.
2025. There's some scary as :censored2: accuracies in this.
 

Turdferguson

Just a turd


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