Its one of the more popular areas of navigation research. When I worked for this navigation institute a couple of years ago, the most popular sessions during the annual conference were autonomous system urban navigation and swarm methodology. The videos were pretty impressive. If this becomes common I may end up walking a lot more.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > > Two thoughts pop into my sleep-deprived brain on this idea: > > 1. Are we sure that the cars will have enough processing power to > > simultaneously drive themselves and communicate with others as more > > of these vehicles are on the road? (Gee, for some reason that sounds > > familiar...) > > > I'm not sure if this is in reference to another thread, but I don't really > see this as being a hurdle. There are a bunch of experimental projects with > autonomous vehicles that communicate like a hive mind about each other's > position and activities. The tech may not be perfect yet (or it might be, I > dunno) but I don't see this as an unsurmountable problem. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364552 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
