I am curious how these sensor arrays deal with being in proximity to each other. Most of the technologies that measure/map depth are susceptible to interference from other transmitters.
Can these systems operate properly with only visible light cameras?
Maybe at some point, the cars get to talk to each other when they detect proximity to another self-driving car. Then they can negotiate either time slices for sensor use, or even sensor data sharing.
OTHO, the thought of untrusted cars meeting up on the streets and forming a mesh network to exchange vital information is really scary.
But the Reuters story is a little "just-so" for my tastes.
The apparent (prompted?) question is: why is the Google car programmed so poorly that it decided to cut off the Delphi car?
But my question is: with all those sensors in the Delphi car, why is the Delphi guy telling his story to the media instead of either a) sharing data with Google, like a professional, or b) posting video on YouTube (ok, Vimeo) like a viral marketer?
Or why did the Delphi car try to change lanes when another car was approaching ? There really isn't enough information in this article to conclude that anything ontoward or unexpected happened at all. Maybe it did and that just wasn't well communicated, I don't know.
It would be nice if one or both companies published full details of the encounter so that the public could come to a better understanding of what the current capabilities of self-driving cars actually are.
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Infrared Interference (XBOX Kinect): http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/1qy2lk/can_you_have...
Radar Interference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_jamming_and_deception#In...
LiDAR Interference: http://www.aiqus.com/forum/questions/22373/using-multiple-li...
OTHO, the thought of untrusted cars meeting up on the streets and forming a mesh network to exchange vital information is really scary.
But the Reuters story is a little "just-so" for my tastes.
The apparent (prompted?) question is: why is the Google car programmed so poorly that it decided to cut off the Delphi car?
But my question is: with all those sensors in the Delphi car, why is the Delphi guy telling his story to the media instead of either a) sharing data with Google, like a professional, or b) posting video on YouTube (ok, Vimeo) like a viral marketer?
It would be nice if one or both companies published full details of the encounter so that the public could come to a better understanding of what the current capabilities of self-driving cars actually are.