Re: Driverless cars

From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Driverless cars
Date	2019-06-05 23:10 +0000
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Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> wrote:
> Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 11:53:44 +0000, Rich wrote:
>> 
>>> I read "speed tracking" as what cars here in the US term "cruise
>>> control"
>>> which is simply "maintain an operator set speed".
>>> 
>>> Is "speed tracking" something more than just maintaining an operator set
>>> speed?
>> 
>> For me, it is. My car reads speed limit signs and adjusts the speed 
>> limiter as appropriate.
>> 
>> It has normal cruise control too.
> 
> Yes, that?s what I was implying. Also called adaptive cruise control,
> though I think the Tesla does a bit more than that. 

According to Wikipedia, "adaptive cruise control" is what I meant by
"follows car in front", in that it uses radar/lidar/magic to identify
the speed of the car in front and automatically maintain a certain
distance behind them. One person who's car has such a feature told me
that all of the available distances were too close for his liking -
which means that they would certainly be too close for me (I tend to
allow lots of space ahead, which usually causes others to overtake
and fill said space, requiring me to slow down to regain adeqate
separation, which causes another car to overtake... Better than
crashing when the Tesla in front slams on the brakes because it sees
a rubbish bag blow in front of it or something though).

Wikipedia's "Tesla Autopilot" page does have a short section on
"Speed Assist" which reads road signs and displays the limit on
the dash - I guess it must be integrated into the cruise control
now as well. I don't have much faith in the backup GPS mapped
speed identification though - according to some GPS systems a
nearby intersection is the centre of a "town area" with a
corresponding unsignposted 50Km/hr limit. Admittedly there is
the occasional four-legged woolly pedestrian going for a stroll
out of their paddock, and last year they actually put up give-way
signs there (one's blown over already), but I don't think it quite
counts as a town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_cruise_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot

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                Re: Driverless cars not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-04 22:57 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-05 11:53 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-06-05 15:52 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2019-06-05 16:28 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-05 23:10 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-06-05 23:47 +0000
                Re: Driverless cars The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2019-06-05 20:06 -0700
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