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Google Patents Self-Driving Car

Posted December 16, 2011 8:30 AM

From BBC News - Technology:

The search giant is awarded a US patent for a system that tells driverless cars when to take control of the wheel.

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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#1 Re: Google Patents Self-Driving Car 12/17/2011 2:03 AM
	I'd like to see how well it drive on black ice.... Or even on a traffic-cone slalom in a parking lot. __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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Usbport Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor Posts: 5363 Good Answers: 647	#2 Re: Google Patents Self-Driving Car 12/17/2011 7:49 AM
	I wonder how the system could handle abrupt changes in weather, like the sudden heavy rainstorms common in the Southeastern US. (My DirecTV signal gets knocked out pretty easily and frequently during the Summer rainy season.) Or, what happens when there are voids or echoes or heavy electromagnetic noise disrupting the GPS signal? And what about those who will deliberately attempt to hack the system; are there precautions in the system to prevent this? __________________ Whiskey, women -- and astrophysics. Because sometimes a problem can't be solved with just whiskey and women.
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#3 Re: Google Patents Self-Driving Car 12/19/2011 6:35 AM
	__________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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