Andy Bruner, post: 455498, member: 1123 wrote: And this time of year snakes that love the warmth of the asphalt.
Actually it's rare that I see snakes warming themselves in the road, at least where am. Lizards, aka: Cuban Anoles are laying all over the place especially on concrete when it's cold. (my idea of cold is anything below 60F ;))
I shudder to imagine an automated world of self driving cars and robotic everything with Siri or some other fashion of artificial intelligence running the show. The value of a human life reduced to the equivalent of a credit score. I'm glad I won't likely be around to see where that road leads.
Could you get a hit and run in a self driving car? Could say "Hell I didn't see anything"
A Harris, post: 455435, member: 81 wrote: Every self driving car I've heard of has to follow something embedded in the pavement, that is gonna take some real funding that the transportation department does not have.
That's old-school technology. The self-driving cars on the road today (and they *are* on the road today in some places as they undergo testing) don't rely on sensors embedded in the pavement. Instead, they rely on computers, GNSS signals, IMUs, LIDAR, high-accuracy mapping and maybe some car-to-car communication to figure out where they are, what's around them and what to do about it. It's a brave new world.
