Rise of the Machines

**R650R** · 25th November 2016, 07:38

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=11754775

**F5 Dave** · 25th November 2016, 17:32

Push the clutch in buddy.
Surely you have a clutch or did you buy a gurlz car?

**Akzle** · 25th November 2016, 17:47

skynet is active

**F5 Dave** · 25th November 2016, 21:58

Sarah Connor's uncle?

**jonbuoy** · 25th November 2016, 22:49

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Push the clutch in buddy.
Surely you have a clutch or did you buy a gurlz car?

Or just the foot brake

I wonder how much his life insurance policy was worth? Sounds like either gross stupidity or someone trying to commit suicide without it being recorded as suicide.

**Cosmik de Bris** · 28th November 2016, 09:44

Originally Posted by spanner spinner

Q7 uses a combination of cameras, ultrasonic sensors (for close range) & microwave radar to discern what is in front of it. it can easily discern between a empty box and a full one. Radar echo will easily discern the mass of the object in front of it, if the kid is hiding in a box it will avoid it as the radar will easily see the kid inside the box. The bigger question is what is all that microwave energy doing to someone riding a bike? not a problem in a car as the steel reflects the energy, leathers aren't so good at blocking microwaves.

There is no way radar of any kind can measure the mass of something and your other mis-conceptions have been dealt with by someone else.

**roogazza** · 28th November 2016, 10:10

Originally Posted by jonbuoy

Or just the foot brake

I wonder how much his life insurance policy was worth? Sounds like either gross stupidity or someone trying to commit suicide without it being recorded as suicide.

exactly, sounds like bullshit to me,just stamp on the brake if ya have to !!!
Of course they'll call all sorts of experts and finally come up NOTHIN !

**spanner spinner** · 28th November 2016, 21:10

Originally Posted by Cosmik de Bris

There is no way radar of any kind can measure the mass of something and your other mis-conceptions have been dealt with by someone else.

Yay I have finally wound some one up, took you guys long enough. Yes you are correct the radar will have issues "seeing" inside the box. The conspiracy theory '"microwaves are going to kill us all" should have given it away that it was a wind up.

Not that some one isn't working on it https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/r...60-vision.html'.

The reason I did this is that it is more likely that the software running the system is programmed to look for certain shaped objects (ie people shaped) and if the object doesn't fit it's parameters it is programmed to ignore it. So it runs it down. If you cut in-front of a self driving car and the cross reference of you riding your bike is not in the data base or you appear in a area your not realy meant to be (lane splitting) does the same happen?

This quote from Mercedes says it all
In comments published last week by Car and Driver, Mercedes-Benz executive Christoph von Hugo said that the carmaker’s future autonomous cars will save the car’s driver and passengers, even if that means sacrificing the lives of pedestrians, in a situation where those are the only two options.

“If you know you can save at least one person, at least save that one,” von Hugo said at the Paris Motor Show. “Save the one in the car. If all you know for sure is that one death can be prevented, then that’s your first priority.”

The only option is to have the same technology "riding" your bike for you so that your bike can either talk to the vehicles around or fit into the vehicle stream in a pattern that is recognized. Once again i bring up the question, would you be happy to be a pillion on your bike as it will be doing the riding.

The bike manufactures are already looking at these technology's why else did Yamaha bother to build a bike riding robot other than to test systems that can "ride" a motorcycle, shit load of money other wise for a toy.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-te...-on-racetrack/

**Cosmik de Bris** · 29th November 2016, 09:11

Originally Posted by spanner spinner

Yay I have finally wound some one up, took you guys long enough. Yes you are correct the radar will have issues "seeing" inside the box. The conspiracy theory '"microwaves are going to kill us all" should have given it away that it was a wind up.

Oh really! The old "I was just joking" excuse to hide ignorance.

**jonbuoy** · 29th November 2016, 09:34

Originally Posted by Cosmik de Bris

There is no way radar of any kind can measure the mass of something and your other mis-conceptions have been dealt with by someone else.

Really? Based on what research? You think an empty cardboard box will have the same radar signature as a cardboard box filled with a water and bone filled human inside it?

**Big Dog** · 29th November 2016, 12:14

Originally Posted by jonbuoy

Really? Based on what research? You think an empty cardboard box will have the same radar signature as a cardboard box filled with a water and bone filled human inside it?

That's as awful lot of signatures to collect... are they also going to collect signatures of living vs dead for said risk analysis?

Three larger the data set you give the system to sort add assess the longer or will take to get a result.

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**Akzle** · 29th November 2016, 12:51

Originally Posted by Big Dog

That's as awful lot of signatures to collect... are they also going to collect signatures of living vs dead for said risk analysis?

Three larger the data set you give the system to sort add assess the longer or will take to get a result.

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nah dog. check out laserscanning terrain and architecture mapping.

shit's quick.
radar is 300km/s or so, lookahead preliminary id, then close range affirmation. most people's cellphones could process all this quicker and more accurately than most people can think.

**RainMan303** · 29th November 2016, 15:06

We're now getting into a discussion on whether the system can achieve perfection. Let's not make the 'perfection' get in the way of 'good enough'. If you figure we can reduce road deaths down by 95%+, then the system is working. We will never ( I know, never is a long time) reduce deaths to zero, but I believe autonomous cars (and airplane, and ship) will get us a long way there....having said that, I'm not looking forward to giving up my conventional motorbike.

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