GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan (reuters.com) 31
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: General Motors Co Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Thursday the automaker will expand testing of self-driving vehicles to Michigan, and will build its next generation of self-driving cars in the Michigan plant that builds the Chevrolet Bolt electric car. GM has been accelerating its efforts to deploy self-driving cars, earlier this year buying autonomous driving startup Cruise Automation. GM and Cruise engineers have been testing self-driving prototypes in Arizona and California. Rivals, including Ford Motor Co, Uber Technologies and Alphabet Inc's Waymo self-driving car unit, are also testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in various states and countries. Barra used a press conference at the company's Detroit headquarters to show off an electric Chevrolet Bolt equipped with roof-top sensors designed to enable autonomous driving. GM executives have said the automaker could eventually deploy self driving electric cars in fleets managed by its ride services partner, Lyft. However, Barra did not address Lyft in her remarks Thursday.
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On the roads.
Or on the sidewalks and in the cross walks when there is a sensor malfunction.
Can we say LAWSUITS? This will be an interesting bit of product safety litigation that won't soon go away. It will keep an army of lawyers and "expert witnesses" employed for decades. I think I need to get an AI degree and some experience in self driving cars so I can collect some the bundles of cash that will be forthcoming for "experts" in the field.
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I wonder who got the ticket for that?
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I wonder who got the ticket for that?
When the Uber SDC ran the red light, it was under human control and the SDC capability was not active. So the human driver was at fault. No one was ticketed, because the violation was recorded by a bystander, not the police.
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That's what I'd do, at least until summer.
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I'd like to see it try a Michigan left, even during summer.
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Well, I know this is a crazy idea, but the sensor could note when it can't "see" clearly and notify the driver. So you come out to your frozen car and turn it on and, damn it, have to drive it yourself. Or you could, you know, clean off the sensors. They put these things on my car to clean the windshield--maybe they could do something similar with the sensors.
As someone below noted, I'm sure these things are being considered. It'll be interesting to see what solution they come up with.
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"Well, I know this is a crazy idea, but the sensor could note when it can't "see" clearly and notify the driver."
The rear proximity sensors on my wife's 2013 Hyundai do exactly that. I would assume other current vehicles do the same thing.
Re: Can it do intersections? (Score:2)
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can it do more then the speed limit? (Score:2)
can it do more then the speed limit?
I don't want this crap doing 55 on I-294
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can it do more then the speed limit?
Tesla Autopilot will exceed the speed limit if the driver requests it to. I don't see why this would be any different. Tesla Autopilot will limit the speed to 5mph over the limit on residential streets, but I don't think there is any specific limit for highway driving. I usually go about 10mph over for highway driving. Any slower than that, and I get flipped off too much.
And in other news.... (Score:2)
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Jaguar announced that it has completed designs for a self-assembling car. It builds itself, transports itself to the dealer, sells itself, obtains it's own financing, then drives it's new owner home. At that point it's up to the new owner to drive it back to the dealer to repair the electronics.
In Detroit, getting a Jag safely home is no minor feat.... The locals would have it on blocks and stripped in less than one cycle of the traffic light if it's the Detroit city I know and love but refuse to visit after dark or unarmed.
No mention of tesla (Score:1)
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Yeah seriously. Musk Oil, anyone?
Look, Tesla might look like it has a serious contender to automagically drive you onto the crossing semi truck but that's just LARPing to the real thing.
So much as I hate Google, they have the only system which I'd trust: lidar vision. THAT makes it viable. Not dinky cameras all around the car that fail once it loosed the lines on the ground.
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I'm told GM has changed it's ways. Of course, they've been telling us that for four decades or so. But maybe it really is different this time.
I sure am glad (Score:2)
Chevy Bolt? (Score:3)
GM makes a car name the Chevrolet Bolt?? That's itterly Usain!
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GM makes a car name the Chevrolet Bolt?? That's itterly Usain!
It's still quite unclear how Chevrolet decided that having a car called the Volt and a car called the Bolt in their lineup at the same time, but that's what they did.