Thread: Autonomous Vehicles

Originally Posted by Homestar

Still amazed at the amount of people on here that are running for their tin foil hats on this subject - it is endlessly entertaining to read some of these conspiracy theorys - keep it up lads, I'm loving it. 👍

You obviously didn't see the movie "Upgrade". Filmed in Melbourne.
After watching it in the cinema, the next day, I bought a tin foil hat.
When did they surgically implant your mind control chip?

Originally Posted by rammypluge

When the internet was created it was seen as a free space, no interference. Now look at it. Things are censored, and every single thing you do is stored and available to police or asio or hackers or facebook big business etc whenever they have reason to want it.

Got something to hide? 😉

There's nothing I do on the Internet that I'm at all worried about anyone seeing - I'm very boring. Anyway, search my name and nothing come up - apart from the meta data from this and a couple of other forums, I'm pretty much invisible on the internet - hmm, like in real life too...

interesting, not sure if its been posted.

A rare look at what Tesla Autopilot can see and interpret | Electrek

Originally Posted by Homestar

Got something to hide?

There's nothing I do on the Internet that I'm at all worried about anyone seeing - I'm very boring. Anyway, search my name and nothing come up - apart from the meta data from this and a couple of other forums, I'm pretty much invisible on the internet - hmm, like in real life too...

So, what happens if say you are on frazer island and the day hasnt gone well, your vehicle is limping with some mechanical issue. Its time to make camp for the night, but some overempowered office bound government contractor decided that if a site hasnt been paid for they will disallow vehicles from entering the camping area. You only ever do the right thing, so you wouldnt care about that?

Or, you are camped alongside an outback road, in an unmarked camp. Overnight a thunderstorm rolls in and dumps many inches of rain. Why would the office beaurocrat know any better than to simply disable navigation along the now closed road.

Originally Posted by rammypluge

So, what happens if say you are on frazer island and the day hasnt gone well, your vehicle is limping with some mechanical issue. Its time to make camp for the night, but some overempowered office bound government contractor decided that if a site hasnt been paid for they will disallow vehicles from entering the camping area. You only ever do the right thing, so you wouldnt care about that?

Or, you are camped alongside an outback road, in an unmarked camp. Overnight a thunderstorm rolls in and dumps many inches of rain. Why would the office beaurocrat know any better than to simply disable navigation along the now closed road.

I have no idea what you're on about sorry. Why would someone pressing a button somewhere make the camp site or road disappear? Not with you at all. How can they disable navigation to a device like a gps unit that isn't online? You think someone in a position like that will have the authority to turn off the whole gps satalite system because there's rain somewhere? This consiracy must go all the way to the top...

speaking of which, what will happen when the US Military switches off the GPS network .
Lots of Autonomous cars will get lost ??

how about another Carrington Event ??

hmm , better keep a Melways handy .

Can the USA military turn the GPS satellites off? - Quora

The Air Force Turned Off GPS To Rehearse a War Without It

There are other GPS systems in development, the Yanks no longer have a monopoly. What's more likely is that one day a giant solar flare indiscriminately knocks out many of the satellites orbiting the planet, but this is getting rather off topic.

Autonomous vehicles will mainly navigate with various species of radar/lidar and onboard data, regularly updated of course. Just like you don't need a map once you've learnt the way, even in fog, so an autonomous vehicle will know the way. Data memory is cheap and the finer the resolution of uploaded maps the better it will know where it is.

Originally Posted by Homestar

I have no idea what you're on about sorry. Why would someone pressing a button somewhere make the camp site or road disappear? Not with you at all. How can they disable navigation to a device like a gps unit that isn't online? You think someone in a position like that will have the authority to turn off the whole gps satalite system because there's rain somewhere? This consiracy must go all the way to the top...

Mate. It's scarier than that.
You get in the autonomous vehicle. The AI takes over. The windows go opaque. The car takes you to a hospital where human drones drag you kicking and screaming to the operating table. When you wake up, you realise they've implanted a mind control chip in your brain stem turning you into a human drone.
It's coming.
AI will take over the world.