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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Technical evolution is one thing, what seems like science fiction, but then we must realize, that all advantages of technology are actually evolution. By looking things from this visual angle the technical evolution is research and development new kind of technology. And this means that all technical advantages for products are the reason for technical evolution. The evolution of cars have gone thru the very high-power engines, what consumption was 15 liters of gasoline to the Tesla's hybrid-cars, what can drive with absolute small consumption. In this text, I would handle the robot cars mainly in the visual angle of hardware. So I don't write much about complicated software, what is needed for those vehicles.
First came ABS brakes and electronic ignition and fuel injection systems for the brakes and motors and next version of automation in cars would be the car, what would drive independently. This kind of cars are actually already in traffic, but there are some problems with them, and one of those vehicles have caused death for one pedestrian. In this case, the driver or control of the vehicle might do something, what turned the attention away from traffic, and then happened terrible accident. This kind of things can cause the problems for marketing the robot cars, because the question is, "who wants to buy an independently driven car if the driver must act like in the normal car, and stare out the window"?
Why somebody wants to pay for that, because we have the vision, that the robot car allows us to read newspapers while that vehicle would drive independently to the target point. And then we would get instructions, that we must look outside from the vehicle all the time when it is in traffic, and that would be the very big disappointment for the users and customers. When we are thinking about regulations, that the driver should be ready to take control of his vehicle, we must ask what kind of actions must the controller have to make driving safer. The main control equipment could be the pedal, what makes the car stop.
It can work like locomotive's "dead man's pedal", what must be pressed down when the car is on the road. The safety of those vehicles is absolutely important, and there would be a long time before real robot cars will hit the road. And also the safety of computer systems and artificial intelligence must become more advanced, that they have been because if hackers would take that kind of car in control, would the result be terrible. In the worst case the hacker might put the Image recognition system to those vehicles, and then put some person picture in that computer, and if some person would order to extermination would the result be very bad.
One of the worst thing, what the man can do, is leave everything under the responsibility of technology. In the so-called wise cars is the computer as "brains" of this system. And this system observes the function of this vehicle. And this is the problem, because if there would be the malfunction in this system, would the vehicle make the unexpected action. If those computers would infect by viruses, they would get dangerous, and hackers would use this kind of systems as the murder weapon. In the robot, cars is a camera system, what mission is to observe the surroundings of this vehicle, and one of the biggest problems of this system is the dust.
That might cover the picture of the camera from image recognition system, and cause the accident. Use of sonars and laser-systems is problematic, because the human body is soft, and the sound waves would not give echoes from the soft targets. Those systems can also disturb animals like dogs. Lasers have the same kind of problems as other visual systems, if those systems get dirty, they would not work perfectly. There are also problems with computers because they would not have the capacity to create anything new.
And if those robot vehicles would come to the unexpected situation, they maybe cannot make right decisions. Sometimes I have written that in difficult those vehicle's computer systems might call assistance from another computer by using the Internet. But the problem is that in tunnels those systems might not work perfectly, and in this case, standard mobile telephone network has similar problems with satellite communication, and those tunnels can also jam GPS. This makes the creating robot cars very difficult.
http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/thoughts-about-robot-cars.html
Kimmo Huosionmaa
Technical evolution is one thing, what seems like science fiction, but then we must realize, that all advantages of technology are actually evolution. By looking things from this visual angle the technical evolution is research and development new kind of technology. And this means that all technical advantages for products are the reason for technical evolution. The evolution of cars have gone thru the very high-power engines, what consumption was 15 liters of gasoline to the Tesla's hybrid-cars, what can drive with absolute small consumption. In this text, I would handle the robot cars mainly in the visual angle of hardware. So I don't write much about complicated software, what is needed for those vehicles.
First came ABS brakes and electronic ignition and fuel injection systems for the brakes and motors and next version of automation in cars would be the car, what would drive independently. This kind of cars are actually already in traffic, but there are some problems with them, and one of those vehicles have caused death for one pedestrian. In this case, the driver or control of the vehicle might do something, what turned the attention away from traffic, and then happened terrible accident. This kind of things can cause the problems for marketing the robot cars, because the question is, "who wants to buy an independently driven car if the driver must act like in the normal car, and stare out the window"?
Why somebody wants to pay for that, because we have the vision, that the robot car allows us to read newspapers while that vehicle would drive independently to the target point. And then we would get instructions, that we must look outside from the vehicle all the time when it is in traffic, and that would be the very big disappointment for the users and customers. When we are thinking about regulations, that the driver should be ready to take control of his vehicle, we must ask what kind of actions must the controller have to make driving safer. The main control equipment could be the pedal, what makes the car stop.
It can work like locomotive's "dead man's pedal", what must be pressed down when the car is on the road. The safety of those vehicles is absolutely important, and there would be a long time before real robot cars will hit the road. And also the safety of computer systems and artificial intelligence must become more advanced, that they have been because if hackers would take that kind of car in control, would the result be terrible. In the worst case the hacker might put the Image recognition system to those vehicles, and then put some person picture in that computer, and if some person would order to extermination would the result be very bad.
One of the worst thing, what the man can do, is leave everything under the responsibility of technology. In the so-called wise cars is the computer as "brains" of this system. And this system observes the function of this vehicle. And this is the problem, because if there would be the malfunction in this system, would the vehicle make the unexpected action. If those computers would infect by viruses, they would get dangerous, and hackers would use this kind of systems as the murder weapon. In the robot, cars is a camera system, what mission is to observe the surroundings of this vehicle, and one of the biggest problems of this system is the dust.
That might cover the picture of the camera from image recognition system, and cause the accident. Use of sonars and laser-systems is problematic, because the human body is soft, and the sound waves would not give echoes from the soft targets. Those systems can also disturb animals like dogs. Lasers have the same kind of problems as other visual systems, if those systems get dirty, they would not work perfectly. There are also problems with computers because they would not have the capacity to create anything new.
And if those robot vehicles would come to the unexpected situation, they maybe cannot make right decisions. Sometimes I have written that in difficult those vehicle's computer systems might call assistance from another computer by using the Internet. But the problem is that in tunnels those systems might not work perfectly, and in this case, standard mobile telephone network has similar problems with satellite communication, and those tunnels can also jam GPS. This makes the creating robot cars very difficult.
http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/thoughts-about-robot-cars.html
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