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Macski

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3,097 posts

98 months

Monday 3rd December 2018
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Was watching a science program on TV I recorded that explored the use of automated vehicles and they featured a person carrying drone built by the Chinese. Because in the air there are no people running in front of your vehicle, no traffic lights or other obstetrical controlling drones automatically is far easier. If there are technical difficulties a control center takes over with a human pilot

Better idea then the automated cars being developed by Google, Apple, Telsa and others? I think so!

TheDrBrian

5,444 posts

246 months

Monday 3rd December 2018
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Macski said:
Was watching a science program on TV I recorded that explored the use of automated vehicles and they featured a person carrying drone built by the Chinese. Because in the air there are no people running in front of your vehicle, no traffic lights or other obstetrical controlling drones automatically is far easier. If there are technical difficulties a control center takes over with a human pilot

Better idea then the automated cars being developed by Google, Apple, Telsa and others? I think so!
Certainly. Aeroplanes have always been design , manufacture, and license than automobiles.

Atomic12C

5,180 posts

241 months

Monday 3rd December 2018
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Would you trust a computer geek's programming with your life when it came to avoiding power lines, buildings, trees, aircraft and other drones ?

I think there is more of a push towards creating environments where nobody has the need to travel in the first place.
Work from home, shop from home, correspond from home, etc. etc.

The world's future looks like it is to become a very dull environmentalist's utopia.


Puddenchucker

5,453 posts

242 months

Monday 3rd December 2018
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Macski said:
Because in the air there are no people running in front of your vehicle, no traffic lights or other obstetrical controlling drones automatically is far easier.
Birds?

Bombjack

483 posts

291 months

Monday 3rd December 2018
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Macski said:
Was watching a science program on TV I recorded that explored the use of automated vehicles and they featured a person carrying drone built by the Chinese. Because in the air there are no people running in front of your vehicle, no traffic lights or other obstetrical controlling drones automatically is far easier. If there are technical difficulties a control center takes over with a human pilot

Better idea then the automated cars being developed by Google, Apple, Telsa and others? I think so!
Yeah, but no.

mrbarnett

1,176 posts

117 months

Monday 3rd December 2018
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Atomic12C said:
Would you trust a computer geek's programming with your life when it came to avoiding power lines, buildings, trees, aircraft and other drones ?
I work in software quality assurance; I would not.

Macski

Original Poster:

3,097 posts

98 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Atomic12C said:
Would you trust a computer geek's programming with your life when it came to avoiding power lines, buildings, trees, aircraft and other drones ?

I think there is more of a push towards creating environments where nobody has the need to travel in the first place.
Work from home, shop from home, correspond from home, etc. etc.

The world's future looks like it is to become a very dull environmentalist's utopia.
BUt you trust them to program a autonomous car to avoid all the obsticals that are on the roads?

Are birds much more of a problem to jet engines rather then aircraft?

The Moose

23,572 posts

233 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Macski said:
Atomic12C said:
Would you trust a computer geek's programming with your life when it came to avoiding power lines, buildings, trees, aircraft and other drones ?

I think there is more of a push towards creating environments where nobody has the need to travel in the first place.
Work from home, shop from home, correspond from home, etc. etc.

The world's future looks like it is to become a very dull environmentalist's utopia.
BUt you trust them to program a autonomous car to avoid all the obsticals that are on the roads?

Are birds much more of a problem to jet engines rather then aircraft?
Ever heard of a guy called Sullenberger?

Atomic12C

5,180 posts

241 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Macski said:
BUt you trust them to program a autonomous car to avoid all the obsticals that are on the roads?
No I most definitely don't.
I'll never set foot in to an autonomous milk float for as long as I am in control of my own body.
And when they become mainstream on the roads I'll be buying a large pickup and fitting bull-bars to it ! wink


RTB

8,273 posts

282 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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What happens to quad copters when a single rotor fails? Would it be possible to automatically cut power and autorotate such a thing or would you have an exciting 10 second ride into the ground?

Edited by RTB on Tuesday 4th December 11:20

CrutyRammers

13,735 posts

222 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Indeed. Unless and until someone comes up with a way of managing power failure, its never going to be mainstream.

lost in espace

6,485 posts

231 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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How about the idea of having spare drones flying around waiting for a failure, when you have an outage and start falling a parachute first pops open and then one of these spare drones whizzes in and picks you up whilst still in the air.

Think of the benefits of transport by drone, all that land recovered from roads for use and the lack of pollution and noise.

Atomic12C

5,180 posts

241 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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lost in espace said:
How about the idea of having spare drones flying around waiting for a failure, when you have an outage and start falling a parachute first pops open and then one of these spare drones whizzes in and picks you up whilst still in the air.

Think of the benefits of transport by drone, all that land recovered from roads for use and the lack of pollution and noise.
not sure if serious....

the balance of having to energise hundreds of thousands of airborne drone traffic vs the replacement of road noise with overhead noise

smile




Equus

16,980 posts

125 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Puddenchucker said:
Macski said:
Because in the air there are no people running in front of your vehicle, no traffic lights or other obstetrical controlling drones automatically is far easier.
Birds?
nono Flying babies is what he means, surely?



OTOH I have no fking clue whatsoever what TheDrBrian is going on about

TheDrBrian said:
Certainly. Aeroplanes have always been design , manufacture, and license than automobiles.

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

124 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Macski said:
BUt you trust them to program a autonomous car to avoid all the obsticals that are on the roads?
No, but I would trust them more than a lot of the drivers on the road at the moment. And multiple autonomous cars will be better at avoiding each other as well

Wobbegong

15,078 posts

193 months

Thursday 6th December 2018
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Having seen a number of random ‘flyaways’ on the DJI forums, I don’t think I’d fancy an automated drone carriage eek