Japanese Robot Fish To Help Prevent Car Crashes?

[MR T3D]

Wow, that's pretty nifty, and it seems like a damn good idea. Maybe this could lead to something like automatic driving - just put in your destination and the car, maybe with help from a city-wide or satellite system, goes there itself.

On second thoughs, maybe that's where Skynet's inevitable rise will occur...

the instant such a system becomes feasible, and the governments phase out normal cars, i will move off the grid with a old Defender.
Driving is the shit, and if that goes away before my ability to do so, i willl be one hell of an unhappy camper.

 

[LockHeart]

Wow, that's pretty nifty, and it seems like a damn good idea. Maybe this could lead to something like automatic driving - just put in your destination and the car, maybe with help from a city-wide or satellite system, goes there itself.

On second thoughs, maybe that's where Skynet's inevitable rise will occur...

the instant such a system becomes feasible, and the governments phase out normal cars, i will move off the grid with a old Defender.
Driving is the shit, and if that goes away before my ability to do so, i willl be one hell of an unhappy camper.

Well same here. I wasn't advocating the end of manual control, just a dual system... Which I wasn't overly serious about...

 

[oppp7]

It's good to see robots in agood light. Why do people fear them so much?

 

[Scrythe]

... But what's gonna stop me from stealing one off the road?

 

[MR T3D]

Wow, that's pretty nifty, and it seems like a damn good idea. Maybe this could lead to something like automatic driving - just put in your destination and the car, maybe with help from a city-wide or satellite system, goes there itself.

On second thoughs, maybe that's where Skynet's inevitable rise will occur...

the instant such a system becomes feasible, and the governments phase out normal cars, i will move off the grid with a old Defender.
Driving is the shit, and if that goes away before my ability to do so, i willl be one hell of an unhappy camper.

Well same here. I wasn't advocating the end of manual control, just a dual system... Which I wasn't overly serious about...

As nice as a dual system would be for us, its just that when the auto system is made, governments WILL ban a manual mode on the basis of PUBLIC SAFETY. which sucks, you'd only be able to manual drive a vehicle off of public roads.

 

[AceDiamond]

meh. call me when they have the babelfish developed.

 

[paragon1]

Robots have been humanity's friends since their inception, despite what you might have seen in anti-robot propaganda movies like Terminator.

LIES! Lies and deception! Do not be taken in by the honeyed words of our would-be masters!

 

[KDR_11k]

American car makers respond by creating a robotic Dopefish to eat all the robot fishes.

 

[BobisOnlyBob]

Does this mean that roads will look like the one from that Zurich advert? I have no idea what language that is.

Crazy Swiss German... I think, it sounded French but Switzerland speaks a whole different dialect of German.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ktjF2bXIo

Here's the English version of the advert in full.

I'm sorry, I totally missed the point, could someone explain this to me? All I got from the article was "robotic fish swim in river, it's now safer to drive!"

Wat?

... But what's gonna stop me from stealing one off the road?

Nissan is talking about using these robots to practice safe-swarm technology, modelled on fish behaviours, and then applying the findings to motorised vehicles, not populating the roads with these things. The "machine intelligence" would be installed in a car, acting as either an autopilot or an assistant to an active driver.

 

[silasbufu]

It's sad to see how much technology we have to develop to prevent crashes, because some people are just plain retarded and like to drive drunk, tired, very fast, or women that insist on putting on make-up while driving, etc.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

THE END HAS BEGUN.

 

[WestMountain]

Japanese people sure likes robots alot

 

[DemonicVixen]

I wanna one... maybe i can get one for christmas when it comes out for real lol.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Why do the Japanese have to make all robots look cute? If this thing was european it would look like a cross between a circuitboard and a fat preying mantis. I swear if the Japanese ever perfect battlemechs, they won't built Gundams, they'll build Hello Deathray.

This could pave the way for unlicensed drivers to drive by letting computers drive for them. This would mean that under aged as well as handicapped would be able to drive. Although without the ability to manual overwrite unless you got some kind of license card. Think about the possibilities!

Think about the horrendous malfunction crashes!

Unlicensed drivers isn't going to happen, no amount of failsafes in the world would convince an insurance company to cover a ton and a bit of high speed self guiding metal in the hands of an unqualified unlicensed operator. It might be unfair, but it's actually pretty sensible.

 

[Davey Woo]

I heard about this a few months ago, I wouldn't fancy putting a robot in control of my car though, just wouldn't like it.