- Monthly Discussions: Intro; Autonomous Driving
- 31 Mar 2016 05:53:26 pm
- Last edited by Alex on 31 Mar 2016 06:58:16 pm; edited 1 time in total
I had some time to think at work today and realized it'd be more fun to think with people and I wondered where I could post such a discussion. I came to the conclusion that Cemetech was a decent place because we mostly stay glued to our projects and the updates of others. I envision these discussions to range anywhere from technology to education and, eventually politics to religion. Please note that I expect civility. No "You're wrong." posts or anything, we are here to discuss these topics in a manner conducive to an educational environment.
I'll admit to moderating this topic heavily. Any posts that are not conducive may be removed with no warning in order to keep the discussion on topic and flowing.
I'm going to start this first one off from a discussion my friends and I had not to long ago and is slowly entering our day to day lives: Autonomous Driving. And since this is the first one I'm going to double post to kick off the discussion, in the future I'll wait for a few posts before engaging in the discussion.
I'll set the tone each month with an introduction about the topic and posing a question or hypothetical. If you have any thing you'd like to discuss please PM me topics for future consideration. Perhaps even write out an introduction and a few potential discussion points.
I'll admit to moderating this topic heavily. Any posts that are not conducive may be removed with no warning in order to keep the discussion on topic and flowing.
I'm going to start this first one off from a discussion my friends and I had not to long ago and is slowly entering our day to day lives: Autonomous Driving. And since this is the first one I'm going to double post to kick off the discussion, in the future I'll wait for a few posts before engaging in the discussion.
I'll set the tone each month with an introduction about the topic and posing a question or hypothetical. If you have any thing you'd like to discuss please PM me topics for future consideration. Perhaps even write out an introduction and a few potential discussion points.
- Autonomous Driving
- How far off do you think we are?
- What systems do you think will be in place to facilitate an autonomous vehicle infrastructure?
- A digital communication network or every car for themselves?
- Better maintenance of roads, markings and, signs or will that be stuff of the past?
- Is the USA prepared?
- What about other nations?
- Do you think this will improve traffic congestion?
- No more accidents causing congestion.
- Smoother flow during any applicable rush hour traffic.
- Any other things you'd like to discuss about Autonomous Driving?
There will be 10 Million Self Driving cars on the roads by 2020, this is by no means fully autonomous driving but it's a start. Over the years cars have gotten safer and more automated. For instance: cars used to not have cruise control, then cruise control was introduced and widely adopted, now we have adaptive cruise control where the car will maintain a safe distance to the car in front up to your set cruise control speed. That means if cruise control is set to 70, and you come up on a car going 65 your car will automatically slow to 65 and if that lead car accelerates to 73, your car will only speed up to 70.
We also have cars that can stay in their lane. That started by adding sensors to detect when the vehicle was departing it's lane without signaling. At first these systems just alerted the driver but now they can keep the car from drifting into another lane by adjusting the steering wheel. Coupled with adaptive cruise control you have a basic self driving car. But, fully autonomous vehicles is another beast. These cars need to be able to navigate the road without driver intervention. We have companies like Google and competitions from DARPA that are encouraging this technology to come along.