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Google BUILDS 100% self-driving electric car, no wheel, no pedals.

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Google BUILDS 100% self-driving electric car, no wheel, no pedals.
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RE: Google BUILDS 100% self-driving electric car, no wheel, no pedals.
May 29, 2014 at 11:19 am
Google car can be worse at solving ethical dilemmas if it can avoid more accidents in the first place, IMHO.
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RE: Google BUILDS 100% self-driving electric car, no wheel, no pedals.
May 29, 2014 at 1:43 pm
Just a thought, the car uses information from a rotating laser system on the roof to detect objects on the road, what happens in fog, rain or snow. (do they know about snow in California?)
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RE: Google BUILDS 100% self-driving electric car, no wheel, no pedals.
May 29, 2014 at 2:26 pm
(May 29, 2014 at 1:43 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Just a thought, the car uses information from a rotating laser system on the roof to detect objects on the road, what happens in fog, rain or snow. (do they know about snow in California?)

Certain waves of light can penetrate fog....or a black plastic bag.



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RE: Google BUILDS 100% self-driving electric car, no wheel, no pedals.
May 29, 2014 at 3:22 pm
(May 29, 2014 at 2:26 pm)Heywood Wrote:
(May 29, 2014 at 1:43 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Just a thought, the car uses information from a rotating laser system on the roof to detect objects on the road, what happens in fog, rain or snow. (do they know about snow in California?)

Certain waves of light can penetrate fog....or a black plastic bag.




Or......
verrry high power lasers to burn away the fog and any other obstacles! Devil
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RE: Google BUILDS 100% self-driving electric car, no wheel, no pedals.
May 29, 2014 at 3:27 pm
I am as confident that driverless cars is the wave of the future as I am of Google fucking it up and thus becoming a negligible foot note in the progress towards that goal.
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