I wonder how Autonomous Cars deal with Potholes!

[Milkfloat]

Back to the OP. The first car detects the pothole through sensors in suspension and ABS, this then sends a message to the cloud and following cars revive the data and avoid the hole. Simples.

 

[classic33]

Back to the OP. The first car detects the pothole through sensors in suspension and ABS, this then sends a message to the cloud and following cars revive the data and avoid the hole. Simples.

They'd never get going on some roads then!

 

[jefmcg]

Back to the OP. The first car detects the pothole through sensors in suspension and ABS, this then sends a message to the cloud and following cars revive the data and avoid the hole. Simples.

The second part is correct, I am sure - maps will be updated on the fly, but they have vision systems. They will see it.

[QUOTE 4750266, member: 9609"]Also how will autonomous deal with wildlife ?[/QUOTE]

I am sure they will be programmed not to hit anything, unless avoiding it would present a greater risk.

Rabbit plagues might be a problem


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBrKxdWH6Fk

 

[NorthernDave]

Have you checked https://www.fixmystreet.com/ and https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/

If they were reported on there before your incident, then they can't claim they didn't know about them.

Both sites send their data to the councils, so if it is on there, then the council has informed. If it's not there, you can still do the FOI check.

The problem is that not all councils will accept reports from fixmystreet - my local one won't.

 

[classic33]

The problem is that not all councils will accept reports from fixmystreet - my local one won't.

Wonder why?

But there's proof it's been reported all the same.

 

[NorthernDave]

Wonder why?

But there's proof it's been reported all the same.

I don't know why as I've never managed to get an explanation from them - but the fixmystreet website flags up the following:

So although it has been reported, it hasn't been reported to the council - which means they can wriggle out of it....you can of course report it via the council website though.

 

[classic33]

I don't know why as I've never managed to get an explanation from them - but the fixmystreet website flags up the following:
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So although it has been reported, it hasn't been reported to the council - which means they can wriggle out of it....you can of course report it via the council website though.

They do check it though. Local council site throws up the same message, but reports made on it are acted on.

 

[Milkfloat]

The second part is correct, I am sure - maps will be updated on the fly, but they have vision systems. They will see it.

I don't know of any commercial systems that are doing this right now. There is equipment that can do it and in fact have been running on vans collecting data already for years (Yota), but so far the in built systems in cars are not doing this.

 

[Milkfloat]

[QUOTE 4750580, member: 9609"]and will all the vehicles that benefit from this data contribute to the car that was damaged ?
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The car won't be damaged, it would have known about the hole before it got too bad. If there is no way to avoid the hole, then the suspension can 'get ready' for the hole and the car can slow down beforehand.

 

[Milkfloat]

[QUOTE 4750625, member: 9609"]presumably you only read my first line[/QUOTE]
I read the whole lot, but assumed you were kidding when you said the council would repair the hole. Autonomous driving I can envisage, councils filling a hole, not a hope.

Joking aside, in theory without vehicles doing heavy braking hopefully there will be less holes.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In a related tipic , t'other day there was a guy in the paper who's Ferrari was damaged by a pothole. The Council refused to stump up the £10,000 repair bill, so he took them to Court and the Council lost. So, not only do they have the £10,000 repair bill, they have something like £30,000 in legal fees to pay.

That's 40 gees of public money pithed up the wall, that would have been better spent on repairing potholes in the first place. Most of these councils couldn't find their own arrisses if you gave them a mirror onna stick.

I did mention to a work-collegue about this, after seeing it, that I might send the local Concil the bill for my new bike, with a covering letter, along of the lines of

-Poor road-surfaces/potholes > required fatter tyres to ride through them > thus reducing possible claims for personal injuries, if they cause me to fall off
- Present bike won't take fatter tyres > thus bought new bike
- Due to the holes getting worse, new bike also has disc-brakes > to allow wheels extra lee-way in case of buckles, (or to brake sharply to avoid them) after hitting your potholes
- Colour chosen for visibility > due to having to change lines > due to your potholes

Obviously worded correctly, but with those salient points
Should I try?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I wonder how autonomous cars will deal with horses. The only way you can safely pass a horse is by slowing down and carefully watching how it's reacting.

 

[srw]

I wonder how autonomous cars will deal with horses. The only way you can safely pass a horse is by slowing down and carefully watching how it's reacting.

You don't suppose that the programmers know that, do you?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

One thing that will help is when cars can "talk" to each other and co-ordinate manoeuvres.

 

[classic33]

I did mention to a work-collegue about this, after seeing it, that I might send the local Concil the bill for my new bike, with a covering letter, along of the lines of

-Poor road-surfaces/potholes > required fatter tyres to ride through them > thus reducing possible claims for personal injuries, if they cause me to fall off
- Present bike won't take fatter tyres > thus bought new bike
- Due to the holes getting worse, new bike also has disc-brakes > to allow wheels extra lee-way in case of buckles, (or to brake sharply to avoid them) after hitting your potholes
- Colour chosen for visibility > due to having to change lines > due to your potholes

Obviously worded correctly, but with those salient points
Should I try?

You've seen the letter I handed in to the council!