% My mind Zoom-Zooms at the thought ... %
After reading the newswire below, I was left with my mind thinking years
from now (likely way after I am gone) of what EV-racing will be.
I think there will always be the desire to the challenge of 'man against
machine', else self-driving racing would be like watching robot wars.
Perhaps a newly designed racing vehicle would be tested and put its paces
initially by it's "EDI" (AI-brain) and then after it passed, the human could
race it.
With the butterfly-effect (things affect each other causing change), perhaps
new laws would temper how-much control racing humans had. Example: with the
loss of a well-known racer, new laws were enacted that let the EDI/AI take
over if things got out of control.
If that happened, the element of danger would be gone.
So, how would drivers and spectators get their 'on-the-edge' adrenalin-rush?
In the future, there may be no need for driver's ed. courses in High School,
if the cars can do all the driving. It might be, that one would choose a
self-driving car, like one would choose an automatic over stick
(manual-tyranny).
In any case, the newswire points out that in the future, there will be
self-driving vehicles roaming the Las Vegas streets, meaning visitors can
get as loose as they want by not having to drive. So, the next logical step
would be that, ...
We all can look forward to our children celebrating their graduation by
letting their vehicle drive them to the local small airport, where the
EDI/AI will fly them in a low-cost UCAV (unmanned-airline) to Las Vegas,
where another self-driving vehicle will chauffeur them around without fear
of being pulled over for a DUI, etc. (What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,
etc.). The only way an over protective parent would know what went on, would
be if they also hired an i-robot gumshoe to spy on them.
The idea of not having to drive yourself is not that new, as there are tour
buses that will get you to Vegas while you party to and from. My thinking,
is the future will hold less human-driving errors, as the driving may be, by
law, taken out of our hands ... and that is something that could a
good-thing, or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it.
It would be a good thing if it reduced the number of vehicle
accidents/fatalities (an just plain boner/stupid-driving that trashes the
Tesla, etc.), and perhaps gets more people to work on time as they are not
slowing down to rubber neck at an accident or new construction, and there
may be way-less over-caffeinated/energy-drink yahoos racing in-and-out of
lanes to try to grab and extra inch causing others to slow down which makes
the traffic flow uneven, etc.
It would be a bad thing as all the control was taken from the human, and
their safe driving skills would have atrophied, causing serious problems
when they are in less developed country where one 'has-to-drive' to get
around.
My thinking after all that metal gymnastics is ...
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvbO6-k_SM
Zoom-Zoom
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Wars
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_military_aircraft#UCAV_EDI
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
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http://www.ask.com/question/what-happens-in-vegas-stays-in-vegas
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gumshoe
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY
Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright
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http://www.reviewjournal.com/autos/drive/will-cars-future-lack-drivers
Will cars of the future lack drivers?
By Stan Hanel January 10, 2014
This may be the year the automotive industry transforms itself into the
personal robot industry, at least at the International CES trade show in Las
Vegas this month.
Nine out of 10 of the largest international automotive manufacturers
displayed multiple technological innovations ... for the first time —
autonomous vehicles.
The Driverless Car Experience at the Gold Pavilion was extraordinary. In
2011, Nevada became the first state to legally allow autonomous vehicles to
operate on its roadways. If a startup company called Induct has its way,
downtown Las Vegas residents may soon be riding in the first autonomous
vehicles operated in the country. The company’s NAVIA autonomous trolleys
are “100 percent electric and 100 percent driverless.”
The platform navigates streets by using GPS mapping and lidar sensors to
detect the distance, shape and height of any obstacles near it. The
batteries that provide energy for the electric drive system are recharged at
wireless inductive charging stations that can be installed at key points
along the trolley route.
Bosch Automotive and Valeo also showcased remote autonomous parking and
automatic emergency braking technologies installed on Volkswagen vehicles.
Someday soon, a family might arrive at a local shopping mall, exit their car
in front of their favorite store, and then use an app on their hand-held
mobile device to instruct the vehicle to remotely park itself, while
monitoring an onboard camera as it completes its objective.
The Bosch/Valeo platform used eight ultrasonic sensors and four near-range
cameras to maneuver the vehicle between two other parked cars while the
driver stood outside the vehicle 15 feet away ...
[© reviewjournal.com]
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