The world of automation
#151
Re: The world of automation
If you look at the operating cost structure of a aircraft, you'll find that pilots are a relatively small component. Obviously it depends on the size of the aircraft, but you can assume that the pilots are less than 10% of operating costs - they don't get paid very well. Not the same scope for savings.
Even so, chatting with a pilot mate of mine, it looks very like single pilot operation will push up through the size categories in the foreseeable, and obviously particularly for cargo aircraft, entirely autonomous operation is likely eventually - just big drones. Part of the problem is the failure of the likes of CASA to equip for full cat 3c operation in Australia, but advances in localisers are likely to make that moot. It's likely to be issues of flexibility that push fully autonomous flight operations - probably once autonomous ground vehicles are accepted by passengers.
#152
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Ford's self-driving car 'coming in 2021' - BBC News
Here we have Ford saying yesterday they are going to deliver robotaxis, without steering wheels, by 2021.
At the moment it's pretty much a question of which car or IT company is NOT targeting autonomous vehicles and 2020.
Here we have Ford saying yesterday they are going to deliver robotaxis, without steering wheels, by 2021.
At the moment it's pretty much a question of which car or IT company is NOT targeting autonomous vehicles and 2020.
#153
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Ford's self-driving car 'coming in 2021' - BBC News
Here we have Ford saying yesterday they are going to deliver robotaxis, without steering wheels, by 2021.
At the moment it's pretty much a question of which car or IT company is NOT targeting autonomous vehicles and 2020.
Here we have Ford saying yesterday they are going to deliver robotaxis, without steering wheels, by 2021.
At the moment it's pretty much a question of which car or IT company is NOT targeting autonomous vehicles and 2020.
US opens investigation into Tesla after fatal crash - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36680043
Reading your thread it uses Lidar to figure out what's around it. Lidar is very reactionary rather than proactionary. Proactive driving thought is needed. Something only a human can do at this point.
Last edited by Beoz; Aug 17th 2016 at 3:23 am.
#154
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The sense making from scene sensor data is probably already ahead of humans, if for no other reason than it doesn't get bored.
#155
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About time we had some legislation news re driverless in Australia.
#156
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That doesn't make a lot of sense. Lidar is just a sensor, how you use it is up to the software, and the AI processing is coming on in leaps and bounds. Hell the Lidar based DARPA vehicles were completing cross country courses ten years ago.
The sense making from scene sensor data is probably already ahead of humans, if for no other reason than it doesn't get bored.
The sense making from scene sensor data is probably already ahead of humans, if for no other reason than it doesn't get bored.
#157
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The only instance where the Google car had issues was when it expected the bus to allow it room at a junction that it didn't. It was predicting what the bus driver would do.
#158
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But an AI can, that's the point after all. It's nothing to do with sensors
The only instance where the Google car had issues was when it expected the bus to allow it room at a junction that it didn't. It was predicting what the bus driver would do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9T6LkNm-5w
The only instance where the Google car had issues was when it expected the bus to allow it room at a junction that it didn't. It was predicting what the bus driver would do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9T6LkNm-5w
#160
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Airbus wants to build flying taxis because everyone hates traffic - Autoblog
"In a not too distant future, we'll use our smartphones to book a fully automated flying taxi that will land outside our front door – without any pilot."
Airbus has no timeline for getting CityAirbuses in the skies, but it is preparing the first test of Project Vahana – an all-electric, autonomous helicopter that customers can use for both personal journeys and cargo hauling – in late 2017
#161
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http://aviationweek.com/site-files/a...1-15-37-36.jpg
Airbus wants to build flying taxis because everyone hates traffic - Autoblog
So, no sooner will there be autonomous cars, than the skies will be full of autonomous helicopters AND delivery drones.
Airbus wants to build flying taxis because everyone hates traffic - Autoblog
So, no sooner will there be autonomous cars, than the skies will be full of autonomous helicopters AND delivery drones.
http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2015/01/21/gotham-airs-new-99-helicopter-manhattan-jfkewr/
#162
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http://aviationweek.com/site-files/a...1-15-37-36.jpg
Airbus wants to build flying taxis because everyone hates traffic - Autoblog
So, no sooner will there be autonomous cars, than the skies will be full of autonomous helicopters AND delivery drones.
Airbus wants to build flying taxis because everyone hates traffic - Autoblog
So, no sooner will there be autonomous cars, than the skies will be full of autonomous helicopters AND delivery drones.
#163
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Uber to start first driverless fleet in Pittsburgh this month.
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month - Bloomberg
Otto apparently are looking at driverless trucks across the Nullabour.
Otto: Inside Uber's New Self-Driving Truck Division
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month - Bloomberg
Otto apparently are looking at driverless trucks across the Nullabour.
Otto: Inside Uber's New Self-Driving Truck Division
#164
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Uber to start first driverless fleet in Pittsburgh this month.
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month - Bloomberg
Otto apparently are looking at driverless trucks across the Nullabour.
Otto: Inside Uber's New Self-Driving Truck Division
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month - Bloomberg
Otto apparently are looking at driverless trucks across the Nullabour.
Otto: Inside Uber's New Self-Driving Truck Division
In July the company reached an agreement to buy Otto, a 91-employee driverless truck startup that was founded earlier this year and includes engineers from a number of high-profile tech companies
People keep saying "oh, it won't happen in my lifetime" - ignoring that they are already putting pilot projects on the street in 2016. Something like automated trucks in virtual roadtrains across the Nullabor is something of a nobrainer. Great spot to test it out in fact, prior to freeways in the US.
#165
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Anyone got one of those driverless vacuum cleaners? Any goo Something to make Mrs Beoz redundant.
Last edited by Beoz; Aug 19th 2016 at 9:22 am.