Amazing technology, or.....

[Visian]

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... answer to a question that nobody asked?

i admire and fear intelligent highway technology.

ian

[Belquar]

While very neat....and I guess it would have its usefulness....

If you have a machine built for driving, sometimes it is just more fun to drive it.

It would take a long time to build up enough trust in the machine to let it drive me in traffic comfortably.

[rkasal]

Jeremy Clarkson is no George Jetson but the car is something that at least Mr. Spacely would own. Thanks for posting that!

Regards,


Randy Kasal

[empeg9000]

I would vote for amazing. Also frightening. It means that people can be even worse drivers and pay less attention.

[PAULBACH]

Maybe that is why BMW still manufactures two wheeled Velocipedes.

[Floppp]

Empeg9000, there are many drivers out there that I would feel far more comfortable with the car doing the thinking.

Awesome, sure you can nap on the bus on the way to work, but now you can do it, or other things, in the carpool lane.

[BradfordBenn]

If The Stig was driving it would have been cooler.

[BubbaZanetti]

a feisable system combining something like this with properly set up proximity detectors could be the wave of the future (at least in the public transportation arena) i like it.

[Visian]

i like it

this means signals coming from an intelligent highway will control the speed of your car by wire.

it also means they can measure time, speed, distance and send you speeding tickets by e-mail.

:eek i hate it

[PAULBACH]

New York is experimenting with tracking the flow of traffic using E-Z pass. There is a rumor that the technology is going to be embedded in vehicle registration stickers to track cars. Big Brother is coming to town. I susect it.

[rocketman]

There has been a contest going on for a few years now where automated cars have to drive around a track, avoid each other and various obstacles presented in their path, pretty cool to watch cars with no driver moving around the track, not very fast as yet and they still a ways to go, but it is developing, it is sponsored by some group promoting automated technology, forget off hand whom.
A number of years ago I worked on a detection-on-the-move robotic system that could wander a warehouse at night and avoid unplanned obstacles in its path, figure out how to get around it and continue on its rounds plus it had face-recognition software which used "fuzzy-logic" to match an intruder's face to a database of acceptable faces, if it didn't find a match it send off an alarm, and do this while still moving. Very kool stuff and a far cry from “Robbie The Robot”!

RM

[BradfordBenn]

this means signals coming from an intelligent highway will control the speed of your car by wire.

it also means they can measure time, speed, distance and send you speeding tickets by e-mail.

:eek i hate it

What is my "description"?

[BubbaZanetti]

this means signals coming from an intelligent highway will control the speed of your car by wire.

it also means they can measure time, speed, distance and send you speeding tickets by e-mail.

:eek i hate it


cool with me, my car (i live in NYC, my girlfriend's company car) is for driving, my motorcycle is for fun:)

[grossjohann]

[Not so politically correct satire]

In the one corner, weighing in with GPS, satellite feed maps, proximity sensors, and intelligent driving patterns which adjust to traffic, weather and vehicle condition [tire pressure, etc], and millisecond reaction time: BMW Autodrive!

In the other corner, a nearly blind, high school dropout, who was fired from his job today, and is having a fight with his wife on the cell-phone while driving home from the bar in his truck that barely passed inspection at his cousin’s auto shop: John Q. Public!

[/Not so politically correct satire]

I will eventually trust the navigation computer more than most drivers.

[adamceckhardt]

of course all new technology will need to have its bugs worked out, but I think its a great start. Of course I'd rather pilot the thing myself, but for congested areas, public transportation, etc, I think its a big deal. I'd love a ride in that one!- the ultimate roller coaster!

[RJM2096]

Some day when it is reliable, I suspect is would be nice to cart the kids around to Soccer. Good for Grocery shopping if we can get it to pick from shelves. But will we need race drivers at NASCAR if a computer can run around a track at high speed?

[john1691]

It's all fun and games until some high school computer geek hacks into the system and scews up the works. Accidents everywhere, gridlock, and slow emergency response..........Could be done for criminal purpose, terrorsist purpose, or just someone fooling around. I don't trrust the computers they have running the traffic lights now, much less something that will control my speed and breaking. Remember, the sensors in the streets will be designed, manufactered and put there by the lowest bidder!