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on Friday July 10 2020, @07:39AM
from the blizzards-and-downpours-and-lightning-oh-my! dept.
from the blizzards-and-downpours-and-lightning-oh-my! dept.
Tesla 'very close' to full self-driving, Musk says:
Tesla will be able to make its vehicles completely autonomous by the end of this year, founder Elon Musk has said.
It was already "very close" to achieving the basic requirements of this "level-five" autonomy, which requires no driver input, he said.
Tesla's current, level-two Autopilot requires the driver to remain alert and ready to act, with hands on the wheel.
But a future software update could activate level-five autonomy in the cars - with no new hardware, he said.
Regulatory hurdles could block implementation even if the remaining technical hurdles are overcome.
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Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @04:56PM (3 children)
I think HOV lanes can work in principle but that in practice they don't because they aren't built in a way that actually encourages carpooling.
In my city, they added HOV lanes to the main throughway, presumably so someone can point and say "look at all the things we're doing to solve transportation problems", without any thought about how the road is actually used by commuters.
Specifically, they added them to the widest sections of freeway only, where there is more than 3 lanes. So on the morning commute to the downtown core, the HOV lane ends just before you get to the 3-lane portion of the highway which incidentally is the only part of the highway that gets congested during the morning rush hour. On the reverse the HOV lane starts after the road is no longer congested.
Needless to say there is rarely a reason to use the HOV lane even if you are carpooling.
If they had the guts to literally run the HOV lane all the way across the city, leaving just two lanes for regular traffic in the downtown core, I bet we'd see a lot more carpooling. It also might help to give the HOV lane a higher speed limit (it is somewhat separated from adjacent traffic after all).
Of course barely anyone is commuting right now so there probably aren't major congestion problems that need solving at the moment.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:23AM (2 children)
Then you get the people who put mannequins in their car and use the HOV lanes.
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:06AM (1 child)
Not to mention all the cities that figure out by letting people drive solo in the HOV lanes for a fee, they suddenly have a nice new revenue source.
Around here, the price scales depending on congestion, but is almost always cheaper than the express bus fare.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:32AM
Ugh. I don't know if I'd ever heard of that.
It's always about money. It reminds me of the traffic light cameras that send automatic tickets. If they really wanted to make intersections safer, they'd do like Russia and some other countries- they'd put a count-down counter up so you'd know when the light is about to turn yellow. And they'd make yellow long enough to give people a chance to stop (and not in an all-out panic mash the brake pedal way).