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Squint wrote:
InlinePaul wrote:Ranger has ABS, but not working. Ranger has air bags, but not working. Ranger's ABS light, airbag light, and check engine light work all the time. :lol:
Something something Hot Shots quote something...
Ida No - All those lights "work" in my Jeep as well, but typically, they only illuminate when I twist the ignition switch to the "Start" position.
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Rope-Pusher wrote: Ida No - All those lights "work" in my Jeep as well, but typically, they only illuminate when I twist the ignition switch to the "Start" position.
What, you mean it is not supposed to stay in that position. No wonder my lights stay on. I thought the switch was broken and would not stay in the start position. Since the opposite of start is stop, I decided to use a bungee cord to keep the key turned all the way, otherwise those lights kept going out and it was driving me nuts not having them on. :P
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GOOGLE GETS AGGRESSIVE WITH AUTONOMY
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One of the things that Google has learned from testing its autonomous cars is that they have to learn how to drive more aggressively. It’s now programming them to inch forward at four-way intersections, to get closer to the car in front of it so someone else doesn’t cut in, and to stay out of another car’s blind spot. In short, they’re teaching their cars to drive more like human beings and use more body language to signal what they’re going to do. Nathaniel Fairfield, a technical leader at Google, came up with this gem of a statement. “If you’re always yielding and conservative, basically everybody will just stomp on you all day.”

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Partial Autonomy Coming, Full Autonomy a Long Way Off

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=GSFJEOG51l4[/youtube]


AUTONOMY SPRAWL - From Autoline Daily
"We hear a lot about how autonomy will be beneficial for those living in urban areas but it could also lead to a lot more sprawl, with people travelling more miles than ever before. Ken Laberteaux, a Senior Principal Scientist for Toyota Research Institute North America, thinks so. He tells Autoline “The people with the longest commutes, the people who spend the most time on highways, they’re going to be the first adopters and they’re going to be the ones that will see faster transportation turn into a lower mortgage payment.” It’s true, the farther out you live the cheaper home prices are. If you want to learn more about connected vehicles, be sure to check out our coverage of the TU Automotive Conference. Look for our interviews on our website or YouTube channel."
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Autonomous driving and the law: Who's responsible when there's a machine at the wheel?

Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina, is an internationally recognized expert on the law of self-driving vehicles and taught the first-ever course on the topic. He's part of a new community of lawyers working on how to determine who's responsible for accidents involving self-driving vehicles.

"Managing this transition will be very complicated and will, I think, be a source of litigation," Smith said.

Smith explores some interesting scenarios at the link below:

http://www.autonews.com/article/2015082 ... news-daily
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That would have been an interesting class to listen to the debate.
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Autonomous cars can talk to each other!

Autonomous Car Conference in Detroit this week.

Link below to a series of videos on Autoline interviews of movers and shakers the developing Autonomous industry:

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Get your hands out of your pants and grab the wheel in 3,....2,....1,....."It's Yours!"

"One of the concerns with cars that can only drive autonomously in some situations, what they call a Level 3 car, is the transition from the car driving itself, to having the driver take over. If the driver isn’t ready or paying attention it could lead to real trouble. So Volvo created a new interface to keep the driver better informed. When the car is ready to drive itself, lights on the paddle shifters will start to flash and the driver holds them down to activate the system. A timer appears on the gauge to let the driver know how much longer the car will operate in autonomous mode. Volvo will test the system as part of its autonomous project in Gothenburg, Sweden." - From Autoline Daily

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Volvo will Say They Are Sorry

"Well, it looks like Volvo must have a lot of trust in its autonomous driving technology because the automaker just announced that it will accept full legal liability whenever one of its vehicles is in self-driving mode. Unless, that is, the vehicle has been compromised by a hacker, which it views as a criminal offense. Volvo’s president and CEO, Hakan Samuelsson added that the U.S. needs to establish a national framework for regulation and testing as to not slow things down by making it extremely difficult for car makers to test, develop and sell autonomous cars. He also says a patchwork of varying state laws and regulations would be a mistake." - Autoline Daily

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Rope-Pusher wrote:He also says a patchwork of varying state laws and regulations would be a mistake."
That's how we roll, though. Our states are not just big counties. They are supposed to have separate laws based on what their populations want.

Does the EU have unified laws for this, or does each country there get to make its own?
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Rope-Pusher wrote:He also says a patchwork of varying state laws and regulations would be a mistake."
That's how we roll, though. Our states are not just big counties. They are supposed to have separate laws based on what their populations want.

Does the EU have unified laws for this, or does each country there get to make its own?
Well, we do have federal standards and generally, you can drive across the country, state to state, and not have to change cars,.....generally.
Trailer towing regulations are an area where states can vary significantly, like how many trailers can be linked together, or whether one, or two, can ride in the trailer while it is being towed, overall length of trailer and tow vehicle, etc.

Speaking of States Rights vs Federal Rights, can you imagine if some state didn't allow Google to plot auto trips within its borders?....Or didn't allow RF-based auto key fobs?.....Or required non-residents to purchase a short-term permit to drive on their roads?
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Rope-Pusher wrote:short-term permit to drive on their roads?
Consider varying oversized load regulations and permitting. I live near the state line on a road where oversized loads are hauled. I constantly see them parked roadside for days or sometimes weeks while they wrangle permits. At least, I assume that's what they're up to. I'd say more days than not, there's a huge load parked on the shoulder or in a local parking lot.

But yeah, there are plenty of Federal standards and even laws and this stuff could end up among them, but even if not it's likely to be reasonably uniform...as long as it's not cuneiform.
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