Here is a car that is going to race it’s way to the top of a mountain. Only difference is that there is no driver just a computer controlling the vehicle, called Shelley. I’m sure it could make a very spectacular video if things get out of hand.
Personally, I can’t actually see a use for this type of vehicle. It uses GPS rather than cameras so it cannot react to anything on the road. It can only follow a very carefully recorded course. So hope there are no goats or other animals up there. It isn’t of much use for anything except in this sort of PR excercise.
However, in getting it to work the white coats will have had to make some pretty nifty computer algorithms. Such as controlling skids, braking envelopes etc. Now they would be handy to have in a car. A car that before it reached the limits of stability starts to take control and when it skids it corrects itself and steers itself where the driver was attempting to go before they lost it. Handy of all that ice we will get with Global Warming… errr…
Of course having cars do what the programmer thinks and not what the driver wants is pretty dangerous but the way we are heading now we, the humans, probably will be classed as do dangerous to drive cars in 20 years time.
In the meantime let’s see what happens in September. Will it become a plane?
Talk about self drive
Here is a car that is going to race it’s way to the top of a mountain. Only difference is that there is no driver just a computer controlling the vehicle, called Shelley. I’m sure it could make a very spectacular video if things get out of hand.
Personally, I can’t actually see a use for this type of vehicle. It uses GPS rather than cameras so it cannot react to anything on the road. It can only follow a very carefully recorded course. So hope there are no goats or other animals up there. It isn’t of much use for anything except in this sort of PR excercise.
However, in getting it to work the white coats will have had to make some pretty nifty computer algorithms. Such as controlling skids, braking envelopes etc. Now they would be handy to have in a car. A car that before it reached the limits of stability starts to take control and when it skids it corrects itself and steers itself where the driver was attempting to go before they lost it. Handy of all that ice we will get with Global Warming… errr…
Of course having cars do what the programmer thinks and not what the driver wants is pretty dangerous but the way we are heading now we, the humans, probably will be classed as do dangerous to drive cars in 20 years time.
In the meantime let’s see what happens in September. Will it become a plane?