Comments on: rCube: It Ain’t Easy Being Green http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/ The Truth About Cars is dedicated to providing candid, unbiased automobile reviews and the latest in auto industry news. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:54:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Landcrusher http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/comment-page-1/#comment-90039 Landcrusher Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:09:26 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/news-blog/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/#comment-90039 GPS is accurate to about 30 meters without a secondary signal from a ground based source. This can go up to about 100 meters or more if you are not getting enough signals. Laser Gyros can keep help a lot as well. Modern cars mostly have several of the gyros. A smart road would bring the error down to inches. Prototypes already work without the smart road. Your government(s) are presently all working on ways to put UAV's over your house to watch everything. The multi million dollar versions used by the air force have a fairly bad failure rate. The ones your police are looking at are nothing but toys and will be hitting the ground all over town. Please contact your congressman. The robot car will have a complete record of everything that happened. There will likely be very little discussion as to who is at fault. I suspect their will be tort protection placed by congress to allow these cars to exist in the interest of public safety and getting votes from people too old to drive. The biggest benefit will be a serious reduction in air travel because you will be able to sleep in your car and arrive in the morning! That will free up more or your airspace for the UAV's to watch everything you do. GPS is accurate to about 30 meters without a secondary signal from a ground based source. This can go up to about 100 meters or more if you are not getting enough signals. Laser Gyros can keep help a lot as well. Modern cars mostly have several of the gyros. A smart road would bring the error down to inches. Prototypes already work without the smart road.

Your government(s) are presently all working on ways to put UAV’s over your house to watch everything. The multi million dollar versions used by the air force have a fairly bad failure rate. The ones your police are looking at are nothing but toys and will be hitting the ground all over town. Please contact your congressman.

The robot car will have a complete record of everything that happened. There will likely be very little discussion as to who is at fault. I suspect their will be tort protection placed by congress to allow these cars to exist in the interest of public safety and getting votes from people too old to drive. The biggest benefit will be a serious reduction in air travel because you will be able to sleep in your car and arrive in the morning! That will free up more or your airspace for the UAV’s to watch everything you do.

]]> By: glenn126 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/comment-page-1/#comment-89928 glenn126 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:03:28 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/news-blog/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/#comment-89928 The only advantage that robot-driven cars will have is that I'll be able to read TTAC online on the way to & from work. (wink) Seriously, do you think that in our litigous society, robotized cars will ever be possible? Whoops, someone in a non-robot car pulls out from a side-road right into the car. Lawsuit city!!! "Why didn't the robot car save my wife?" (Real world answer: the laws of physics were not repealed). The only advantage that robot-driven cars will have is that I’ll be able to read TTAC online on the way to & from work. (wink)

Seriously, do you think that in our litigous society, robotized cars will ever be possible?

Whoops, someone in a non-robot car pulls out from a side-road right into the car.

Lawsuit city!!! “Why didn’t the robot car save my wife?” (Real world answer: the laws of physics were not repealed).

]]> By: Virtual Insanity http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/comment-page-1/#comment-89914 Virtual Insanity Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:23:35 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/news-blog/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/#comment-89914 This sounds all well and good...but don't GPS units have a sort of margin of error? This sounds all well and good…but don’t GPS units have a sort of margin of error?

]]> By: dean http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/comment-page-1/#comment-89913 dean Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:21:16 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/news-blog/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/#comment-89913 How long is it before you hear this from your car when you attempt to accelerate: "Are you sure you want to do that, Dave?" How long is it before you hear this from your car when you attempt to accelerate:

“Are you sure you want to do that, Dave?”

]]> By: Landcrusher http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/comment-page-1/#comment-89882 Landcrusher Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:37:23 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/news-blog/rcube-we-control-the-horizontal/#comment-89882 More importantly, when will our government get wise and start figuring out standards for smarter roads that will work well with our soon to be offered robotically driven cars? PS. I wouldn't think about a long term career change to being a long haul truck driver. Ain't gonna need them. More importantly, when will our government get wise and start figuring out standards for smarter roads that will work well with our soon to be offered robotically driven cars?

PS. I wouldn’t think about a long term career change to being a long haul truck driver. Ain’t gonna need them.

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