February 17, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)
Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your can, automatic steering / throttle controls so you could pick a lane, fall asleep and your car would safely continue on .... But alas and alack they could never get the system to work 100 percent perfect and the cost of burying those cables in each road, even just interstate limited access highways, would make today's national debt look smallAnd heaven forbid a minor earthquake or some such cut the cable and killed thousands of drivers.
There's another version out there that detects lanes via the pain lines/reflectors and uses collision detection to determine its speed.
Yeah, but those get worn out pretty quickly. And I'd hate to be the person who had to program a computer to drive in fog/smoke. They have enough trouble with image recognition when things are bright and clear.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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February 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
GSquared (2/17/2012)
Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)
Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your can, automatic steering / throttle controls so you could pick a lane, fall asleep and your car would safely continue on .... But alas and alack they could never get the system to work 100 percent perfect and the cost of burying those cables in each road, even just interstate limited access highways, would make today's national debt look smallAnd heaven forbid a minor earthquake or some such cut the cable and killed thousands of drivers.
There's another version out there that detects lanes via the pain lines/reflectors and uses collision detection to determine its speed.
Yeah, but those get worn out pretty quickly. And I'd hate to be the person who had to program a computer to drive in fog/smoke. They have enough trouble with image recognition when things are bright and clear.
There've been some pretty amazing developments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
And there's been advancements since then.
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What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 17, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)
Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your can, automatic steering / throttle controls so you could pick a lane, fall asleep and your car would safely continue on .... But alas and alack they could never get the system to work 100 percent perfect and the cost of burying those cables in each road, even just interstate limited access highways, would make today's national debt look smallAnd heaven forbid a minor earthquake or some such cut the cable and killed thousands of drivers.
There's another version out there that detects lanes via the pain lines/reflectors and uses collision detection to determine its speed.
Yeah, but those get worn out pretty quickly. And I'd hate to be the person who had to program a computer to drive in fog/smoke. They have enough trouble with image recognition when things are bright and clear.
There've been some pretty amazing developments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
And there's been advancements since then.
Yep. And the Google car, too.
Pretty cool stuff. Especially since I seriously dislike driving and would much rather be able to read while passengering or something like that.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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February 17, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)
Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your can, automatic steering / throttle controls so you could pick a lane, fall asleep and your car would safely continue on .... But alas and alack they could never get the system to work 100 percent perfect and the cost of burying those cables in each road, even just interstate limited access highways, would make today's national debt look smallAnd heaven forbid a minor earthquake or some such cut the cable and killed thousands of drivers.
There's another version out there that detects lanes via the pain lines/reflectors and uses collision detection to determine its speed.
Yeah, but those get worn out pretty quickly. And I'd hate to be the person who had to program a computer to drive in fog/smoke. They have enough trouble with image recognition when things are bright and clear.
There've been some pretty amazing developments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
And there's been advancements since then.
Yeah, pretty soon there'll be no manned vehicles / planes / etc, just a bunch of doughnut eating video gamers fighting wars. Remember you heard it here first. 🙁
David
@SQLTentmaker“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot
February 17, 2012 at 1:52 pm
David Benoit (2/17/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)
Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your can, automatic steering / throttle controls so you could pick a lane, fall asleep and your car would safely continue on .... But alas and alack they could never get the system to work 100 percent perfect and the cost of burying those cables in each road, even just interstate limited access highways, would make today's national debt look smallAnd heaven forbid a minor earthquake or some such cut the cable and killed thousands of drivers.
There's another version out there that detects lanes via the pain lines/reflectors and uses collision detection to determine its speed.
Yeah, but those get worn out pretty quickly. And I'd hate to be the person who had to program a computer to drive in fog/smoke. They have enough trouble with image recognition when things are bright and clear.
There've been some pretty amazing developments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
And there's been advancements since then.
Yeah, pretty soon there'll be no manned vehicles / planes / etc, just a bunch of doughnut eating video gamers fighting wars. Remember you heard it here first. 🙁
To be fair, There've been SF stories about that for 60 years or more.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 17, 2012 at 1:57 pm
LOL - I'll concede. Sort of like trying to claim the idea behind the internet huh? 🙂
David
@SQLTentmaker“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot
February 17, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)
Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your can, automatic steering / throttle controls so you could pick a lane, fall asleep and your car would safely continue on .... But alas and alack they could never get the system to work 100 percent perfect and the cost of burying those cables in each road, even just interstate limited access highways, would make today's national debt look smallAnd heaven forbid a minor earthquake or some such cut the cable and killed thousands of drivers.
There's another version out there that detects lanes via the pain lines/reflectors and uses collision detection to determine its speed.
So, in true gaming fashion, the system accelerates the vehicles when a collision is imminent? 😀
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
February 17, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Greg Edwards-268690 (2/17/2012)
Try synthetic oil.
I did and it works... hate the taste, though. 😉
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
February 17, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/16/2012)
GilaMonster (2/16/2012)
Dunno about worse, but definitely shorter
Hit and miss, and this one was short. We have some long ones coming at times.
It's a solution, and one that someone found worthwhile. If we are only going to publish the best solution for every problem, I think, well, that's impossible.
Think of it as a kind of "spackle" article with no fluff whatsoever.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
February 17, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Jeff Moden (2/17/2012)
Evil Kraig F (2/17/2012)
GSquared (2/17/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/17/2012)
Way way back Virginia Tech was working on a system with a buried cable in each lane, a sensing mechanism on the front of your can, automatic steering / throttle controls so you could pick a lane, fall asleep and your car would safely continue on .... But alas and alack they could never get the system to work 100 percent perfect and the cost of burying those cables in each road, even just interstate limited access highways, would make today's national debt look smallAnd heaven forbid a minor earthquake or some such cut the cable and killed thousands of drivers.
There's another version out there that detects lanes via the pain lines/reflectors and uses collision detection to determine its speed.
So, in true gaming fashion, the system accelerates the vehicles when a collision is imminent? 😀
Naw that's not true gaming fashion - what it does it slows down every other car, while speeding up the one behind it. Creating an advanced version of bumper cars
February 17, 2012 at 4:17 pm
The subject of these self driving or assisted driving cars got me to search the web. Try viewing these
Nevada Becomes First State To Regulate Self-Driving Cars
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/02/17/self_driving_cars_now_regulated_in_nevada_.html
Video: Google's Self-Driving Cars in Action!
February 18, 2012 at 2:08 pm
When going to "Recent Posts", this shows up:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/CROSS+JOIN/87362/
Note that it is a SCRIPT so why oh why is it appearing in "Recent Posts" - another foul up something like what was happening with Blog postings?
February 19, 2012 at 12:07 pm
bitbucket-25253 (2/18/2012)
When going to "Recent Posts", this shows up:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/CROSS+JOIN/87362/
Note that it is a SCRIPT so why oh why is it appearing in "Recent Posts" - another foul up something like what was happening with Blog postings?
To add to that, I applaud someone sharing an idea, but that one is pretty old and pretty bad even if it were for SQL Server 2000 or earlier.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
February 19, 2012 at 3:06 pm
I think we have some of the changes surfacing in the Recent Activity. We do create threads, and have wanted discussions for scripts, so this might be appearing.
I think it's OK, but welcome debate.
February 19, 2012 at 3:47 pm
The blog-related threads seem to be mostly gone. I noticed a couple during the week (see page or so earlier in the thread), but none this weekend. I think the developer can be untied from his desk now. 😀
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
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