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iansoady wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:11 am Some years ago I took part in an academic study looking at (what was not called) highway hypnosis. It involved steering a pretend car made of dexion and random components with a projected journey on big screens in front. Not particularly realistic (well it was built by students at Aston Uni) but it seemed to work

Essentially I had to "drive" this thing for about 30 minutes along very boring roads until there as a sudden event and respond accordingly. I must get in touch with them to see what if any results were published.

Another version presented direction signs of varying complexity to see again how long it took for the subject to respond corrctly.

wheelnut wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:55 pm Another version presented direction signs of varying complexity to see again how long it took for the subject to respond corrctly.

What would be interesting would be to do the same exercise with an autonomous car that sudenly needs driver intervention

wheelnut wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:55 pm What would be interesting would be to do the same exercise with an autonomous car that sudenly needs driver intervention

The Spin Doctor wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:26 pm one

Horse wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:51 am

The Spin Doctor wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:26 pm one

Errr .. one what?

slowsider wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:56 am Oops.

"Toyota has apologised for the “overconfidence” of a self-driving bus after it ran over a Paralympic judoka in the athletes’ village"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ed-athlete

Horse wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:29 am And you're worried about defensive automated vehicles? Nah, you might need to worry when they go on the offensive

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambl ... 8b650d21fa

A Russian combat robot is breaking new ground in autonomy, patrolling without human assistance, navigating its way across a 100-kilomter route and working with a swarm of drones. The new demonstrations, which were announced by the State-owned RIA Novosti news service last week, may look like me-too achievements in terms of competing with the West. Unlike the U.S. though, Russia puts its robots into the field, and the technology is likely to be used sooner rather than later.

The Marker unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is being developed by Russia’s equivalent of DARPA, the Foundation for Advanced Studies (FPI). It is armed with a 7.62mm machine gun and a pair of guided anti-tank missiles

Mussels wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:11 am No amount of bleating about Robocop in the west will stop Russia and China using them.

Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:28 am It only appears to be autonomous in terms of movement. I assume there's still a bloke in a bunker doing target selection and authorising the trigger pulling.

slowsider wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:33 am

Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:28 am It only appears to be autonomous in terms of movement. I assume there's still a bloke in a bunker doing target selection and authorising the trigger pulling.

I don't think autonomous cars choose the destination

Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:28 am It only appears to be autonomous in terms of movement. I assume there's still a bloke in a bunker doing target selection and authorising the trigger pulling. Still, it's one step nearer one army of machines fights another army of machines. War as a computer game...they'll be recruiting spotty yoofs instead of muscular lunkheads.

Horse wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:34 am From informal contact with people in the US, it's more likely to be what they call 'D drivers': drunk, drugged, drowsy and distracted.

With 41 fatal collisions (I haven't heard of a single collision with multiple fatalities), you have to wonder how many collisions occur.