On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Tom Allen <t...@jugglethis.net> wrote:
> Hi David, sounds like an interesting project but I wonder about its > usefulness. Robotic cars have the potential to automate driving and reduce road deaths and accidents. I'm not sure that you have ever seen people texting with their mobiles whilst driving, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving long distances and suffering fatigue but all these human inadequacies contribute to road accidents often causing death. A robotically driven vehicle would power you to your destination no matter what your blood alcohol reading was. I for one would feel safer if my teenagers were coming home in an appropriately constructed robot car than with their own reflexes after a long night of partying. Lot's of time is wasted driving cars manually. I'd much prefer to be sitting in the back seat playing with the notebook than up the front doing a job that I think a computer can easily do if it had the right program. > Have you actually asked any of these lower-end manufacturers whether > they'd use it? Not yet, because I am still working on it. > How will you deal with the fact that most cars are not drive-by-wire? > Google's car (and everything even remotely successful in the DARPA > Grand/Urban Challenges) used a Velodyne sensor to get 3D models of the > world - do you really think it's at all viable to just use computer vision? My driverless robot uses a multi-core-symmetrical processing brain. And can accept input from a range of sensors including GPS and Computer Vision. I don't see any reason why I can't add Lidar later and why it would cause any great rift in the project. First steps, which I hope to accomplish in the coming months will just include driving the vehicle around a few streets at low speed. If I can get that happening and working fine I will be pretty chuffed. That's my immediate milestone in any case. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
