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From: rexjohns@nospam.com
"Dimensional Traveler" wrote in message
news:52e1df47$0$52764$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> On 1/23/2014 12:31 PM, rex wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Your Name" wrote in message
>> news:240120140855359808%YourName@YourISP.com...
>>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>>> In article <52e0c728$0$52806$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
>>>> dtravel@sonic.net
>>>> says...
>>>> > On 1/21/2014 9:49 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>>> > > In article <52df5822$0$52798$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Dimensional
>>>> > > Traveler wrote:
>>>> > >> On 1/21/2014 7:46 PM, Greg Goss wrote:
>>>> > >>> "John F. Eldredge" wrote:
>>>> > >>>>
>>>> > >>>> Several years back, something got royally screwed up in the
>>>> Google > >>>> Maps
>>>> > >>>> database. If I recall correctly, going from one particular
>>>> town > >>>> to
>>>> > >>>> another in Scotland showed, correctly, a land trip of about 20
>>>> > >>>> miles.
>>>> > >>>> Going in the reverse direction showed a trip of several
>>>> hundred > >>>> miles,
>>>> > >>>> passing through three different countries and involving two
>>>> > >>>> trips
>>>> > >>>> across
>>>> > >>>> the North Sea.
>>>> > >>>
>>>> > >>> I forget whether it was Google Maps, or some predecessor mapping
>>>> > >>> internet program, but I was once told to turn left from one car
>>>> > >>> ferry
>>>> > >>> onto another near Nanaimo.
>>>> > >>>
>>>> > >> I once had map software on my laptop while I was entering St.
>>>> Louis > >> via
>>>> > >> a bridge across the Mississippi try to tell me to take a left
>>>> turn > >> from
>>>> > >> the divided interstate highway bridge a hundred feet up in the
>>>> air > >> onto
>>>> > >> the riverside jogging/bike path below.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > One example of NUMEROUS that prove self-driving cars simply aren't
>>>> > > going to happen any time soon.
>>>>
>>>> If a self-driving car took its _only_ navigational information from a
>>>> GPS this would be an issue. But the Google cars take their information
>>>> from a variety of sources and should not drive off of the road simply
>>>> because a GPS tells them to.
>>>
>>> Without massive amount of expensive changes to the roading system and /
>>> or a sudden, and currently immpssible, increase in the functionality of
>>> "artificial intelligence", there's no way to stop the cars going the
>>> wrong way down a one-way street (as one example) simply because Google
>>> Maps told them to.
>>
>> It wouldn't be hard to ensure that google maps is always up to date
>> with any road change like that,
> Yes it is.
No it isn't. They have to do it anyway, and they don't do that by driving
the streets and entering changes, the operations that make the changes
notify of changes.
A self driving car has to be able to handle short term changes that
happen when doing road maintenance and short term redirection
of traffic due at major accident etc and so can handle that fine.
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