Driver-less Motorhomes - hypothetical question ?? (1 Viewer)

[Cardeau]

If it's driverless the moho can go for a trip by itself whilst my wife and I are working!

 

[Mel]

We have at least 3 trucks here on test without drivers starting this year.
The first one has a driver the second two dont.

 

[peterc10]

If it's driverless the moho can go for a trip by itself whilst my wife and I are working!

It'll come to something when your motorhome has more fun than you.

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[magicsurfbus]

It would be very odd setting your destination, then heading into the back and putting on the kettle while you sit back and watch the scenery go by.

It's already been done - it's called a 'train'.

You've just described the classic urban legend about the dim American RV driver who misunderstood the meaning of cruise control.

Let's deal with the important stuff first - self-emptying toilet cassettes.

 

[peterc10]

Let's deal with the important stuff first - self-emptying toilet cassettes.

I've got one of those - its emptied by my self.

 

[Abacist]

Just remember that software has bugs even though some bugs become features!

Its not for but maybe in the future when I'm gone

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[D&G]

It's a great thought. Not a whole lot of satisfaction driving a MH though the best seat is at front.

I agree, it's the same with cars, I enjoy the experience on the whole, motorway driving gets me down a bit these days with the idiots although it doesn't seem so bad when I am sitting in the MH doing 60 going somewhere nice, i don't seem to care as much then, not sure why.

I also think there are too many variables at the moment, but I can see it coming one day.

But by the same token, who remembers all the predictions that we would all have our own aircraft/back pack or whatever and fly to work every day ??

 

[benellioldman1]

What about insurance who will they blame if there is a accident ?

 

[two]

You could get it to move on overnight, while you sleep, to wake up at your next destination.

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[hilldweller]

You could get it to move on overnight, while you sleep, to wake up at your next destination.

Rocked to sleep and no site charges. A whole new world.

 

[hilldweller]

But by the same token, who remembers all the predictions that we would all have our own aircraft/back pack or whatever and fly to work every day ??

Haven't there been plenty of those !!

I remember ZETA. Not her, Zero Energy Thermonuclear A...... A controlled fusion machine. Electricity was going to be so cheap we would be given it. Yeh right.

Then there were the robots, doing our work while we stayed at home in luxury. Well they got that half right.

All these predictions failed to factor in GREED.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

As for computor controlled vehicles, it would be easier to pay a Polish Diver in the front one and couple everything on behind with A Frames and it would be just like an Australian Road train. Safer that way too except we all go to differing places.

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[D&G]

I wouldn't have one. If you don't want to drive then use a bus/train /coach etc.

Maybe this is how they are going to get us all to use public transport more

 

[Gromett]

I would like to add a few points.

The computers controlling the vehicles won't be like traditional computers that follow a fix set of instructions. They are more like semi AI devices that can learn. That is what google are doing with their car.

The autonomous cars will initially I believe monitor the drivers attention and bast a warning if their attention wanders. Eyes on the road please.

Leave the drivers seat will not be possible, the vehicle will slow to a safe stop until you are back in the drivers seat and paying attention.

If you want to know what the software is like, it is more akin to IBM,s Deep Blue, which has beaten Grandmasters at chess, diagnosed illnesses and won at Jeopardy. Or like Googles AlphaGo which beat the Go Champion.

Even if your attention wanders while at the wheel it will still be safer than a human driver. The Lidar and other detection equipment will notice things long before a human will and take anticipatory action to prevent collisions. I can't remember the last time I saw a missing manhole cover.

As for a ball going into the street followed by a child. The most recent iteration of googles software tracks pedestrians long before they become a danger to themselves and can even track them when they go behind objects such as parked cars, bins, lamp posts etc etc.

Current google cars can spot cyclists and even monitors them for hand signals. It anticipates random manoeuvres such as if they are coming up to a junction it plans for the cyclist going in any direction and has a plan for each possibility.

They are much better than you would expect. Sometime during the last 10 years computing power vs power usage hit a cliff edge and we are now able to do things that just weren't possible within the processing power or electrical power available back then.

An awful lot of money and research time is now going into learning systems and the progress is remarkable.

 

[Reevsie]

We already have a driverless motorhome.

Well actually the wife does. The Motorhome takes her everywhere and she never drives it.

Wish I had one!!!!!

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