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cars that drive by themselves is becoming more of a reality check this out http://www.wired.com/2014/05/google-sel ... prototype/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Does the Herbie 2000 model come with cheerful,energetic,humerous personality?

I just hope they program the onboard computer to know when a ball bounces into the middle of the street to come to a stop before the child follows it.

Creating vehicles that can drive themselves has struck that all important milestone. Multiple people are making it a reality. It's a harsh reality with an incredible amount of variables, to say the least. But, our computers are fast enough, strong enough and just reliable enough to pull off the infancy of this wonderful...or nightmarish...dream.

Do understand that auto piloting vehicles..._in the real world_...have been around since the days of Knight Rider (TOS). It's just that you couldn't get very far on 1980 computing power. See, back then, it analized a whole THREE FEET in front of where it was going. And, it took a whole thirty minutes to do it in. Then, when it judged that the area was indeed obstacle free and actually road surface, it hit the gas, drove those whole three feet, hit the brakes and started to look the next three feet over. When last I heard about _that_ ever lasting project in L.A., the vehicle was able to traverse 70 MPH down the freeway. How the speed of computer has progressed.

Granted, it was still looking only three feet in front of where it was going...so, don't hit any of those Rush Hour traffic jams. @_@

jup wrote:Creating vehicles that can drive themselves has struck that all important milestone. Multiple people are making it a reality. It's a harsh reality with an incredible amount of variables, to say the least. But, our computers are fast enough, strong enough and just reliable enough to pull off the infancy of this wonderful...or nightmarish...dream.

Do understand that auto piloting vehicles..._in the real world_...have been around since the days of Knight Rider (TOS). It's just that you couldn't get very far on 1980 computing power. See, back then, it analized a whole THREE FEET in front of where it was going. And, it took a whole thirty minutes to do it in. Then, when it judged that the area was indeed obstacle free and actually road surface, it hit the gas, drove those whole three feet, hit the brakes and started to look the next three feet over. When last I heard about _that_ ever lasting project in L.A., the vehicle was able to traverse 70 MPH down the freeway. How the speed of computer has progressed.

Granted, it was still looking only three feet in front of where it was going...so, don't hit any of those Rush Hour traffic jams. @_@

makes me wonder if this comes in production could we gut this computer out the car and put it in a 82 pontiac trans am kitt replica.

james olden wrote:

jup wrote:Creating vehicles that can drive themselves has struck that all important milestone. Multiple people are making it a reality. It's a harsh reality with an incredible amount of variables, to say the least. But, our computers are fast enough, strong enough and just reliable enough to pull off the infancy of this wonderful...or nightmarish...dream.

Do understand that auto piloting vehicles..._in the real world_...have been around since the days of Knight Rider (TOS). It's just that you couldn't get very far on 1980 computing power. See, back then, it analized a whole THREE FEET in front of where it was going. And, it took a whole thirty minutes to do it in. Then, when it judged that the area was indeed obstacle free and actually road surface, it hit the gas, drove those whole three feet, hit the brakes and started to look the next three feet over. When last I heard about _that_ ever lasting project in L.A., the vehicle was able to traverse 70 MPH down the freeway. How the speed of computer has progressed.

Granted, it was still looking only three feet in front of where it was going...so, don't hit any of those Rush Hour traffic jams. @_@

makes me wonder if this comes in production could we gut this computer out the car and put it in a 82 pontiac trans am kitt replica.

I would say yes. It might not be as easy as Michael made it look when he installed Kitt into his Chevy in KR 2000, though. After all, what is an auto pilot? It's a CPU inside a box. Has wires that run to a battery and devices that operate the steering mechanics, the gas and brake pedals and devices that let it 'see' (or sense) the world about it. Probably another one that works with GPS. With some hard work, such components could be adapted to a 1982 Trans-Am.

My more concerning question becomes how long before it becomes a replica of Killer K.I.T.T.? Especially since the real thing would have no programming to protect living life forms and would be far easier to hack into if it had any kind of outside access then the brain child did to Kitt...who, ironically, had an outside access channel to tap into.

Knight Racer wrote:

Does the Herbie 2000 model come with cheerful,energetic,humerous personality?

I just hope they program the onboard computer to know when a ball bounces into the middle of the street to come to a stop before the child follows it.

Here's some more information on the Google car of tomorrow...

http://youtu.be/Wg1fBbnJJn4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No steering wheel or brake? What does one do when the BSoD pops up, then??? I mean, I have to randomly use the three second power button approach when my netbook goes wonky!

Then again, 25 MPH kind of makes the thing a personal Jonny Cab.

Eh...what am I saying? I've had my GPS malfunction! Sure, it's funny when it gets into an endlessly repeating loop with the speech. Not when it wants me to turn left...THEN right while driving over a bridge! Just imagine an auto pilot car that's controlled _WITH THAT_!!!

jup wrote:

james olden wrote:

jup wrote:Creating vehicles that can drive themselves has struck that all important milestone. Multiple people are making it a reality. It's a harsh reality with an incredible amount of variables, to say the least. But, our computers are fast enough, strong enough and just reliable enough to pull off the infancy of this wonderful...or nightmarish...dream.

Do understand that auto piloting vehicles..._in the real world_...have been around since the days of Knight Rider (TOS). It's just that you couldn't get very far on 1980 computing power. See, back then, it analized a whole THREE FEET in front of where it was going. And, it took a whole thirty minutes to do it in. Then, when it judged that the area was indeed obstacle free and actually road surface, it hit the gas, drove those whole three feet, hit the brakes and started to look the next three feet over. When last I heard about _that_ ever lasting project in L.A., the vehicle was able to traverse 70 MPH down the freeway. How the speed of computer has progressed.

Granted, it was still looking only three feet in front of where it was going...so, don't hit any of those Rush Hour traffic jams. @_@

makes me wonder if this comes in production could we gut this computer out the car and put it in a 82 pontiac trans am kitt replica.

I would say yes. It might not be as easy as Michael made it look when he installed Kitt into his Chevy in KR 2000, though. After all, what is an auto pilot? It's a CPU inside a box. Has wires that run to a battery and devices that operate the steering mechanics, the gas and brake pedals and devices that let it 'see' (or sense) the world about it. Probably another one that works with GPS. With some hard work, such components could be adapted to a 1982 Trans-Am.

My more concerning question becomes how long before it becomes a replica of Killer K.I.T.T.? Especially since the real thing would have no programming to protect living life forms and would be far easier to hack into if it had any kind of outside access then the brain child did to Kitt...who, ironically, had an outside access channel to tap into.

omg lol so basically without that protect human life we would have a k.a.r.r. or killer k.i.t.t. before a k.i.t.t.

I wonder when it encounters a scenario when it realizes an accident is about to occur whether to save the driver,pedestrian in front of it that jumped out into the middle of the street,or swiftly turn into another vehicle in another lane what will the outcome be.

Knight Racer wrote:I wonder when it encounters a scenario when it realizes an accident is about to occur whether to save the driver,pedestrian in front of it that jumped out into the middle of the street,or swiftly turn into another vehicle in another lane what will the outcome be.

I saw this once on PBS. It was about a whole automated vehicle race that went over a wide variety of obstacles. The race was never meant to be a race at all. All vehicles that entered were hoped to cross the finish line in the same order.

This one vehicle was quick to fall apart. Many sensors couldn't take the strain and malfunctioned, hindering the car while it still limped along. The one behind, not expected to do much more then brake to avoid a collision...quite literally did what Kitt did in the pilot. It went around. It judged for itself when it was safe to pass on the narrow, dirt road up in the hills and passed the hobbling car.

I should hope at 25 MPH, this Google car just slows down or stops without trying for any passes on a two land street.

james olden wrote:makes me wonder if this comes in production could we gut this computer out the car and put it in a 82 pontiac trans am kitt replica.

Of course, I can't help but wonder how one would go about, masking that roof device. The one that looks like an old fashioned police beacon, built inside a crash cage on steriods.

There's bound to be other, more inconspicuous versions produced by other teams/companies at some point. After all, KITT was packed full of cameras and sensors that you didn't see...aside from the cylon light.