Posted by Keith in Washington [199.27.133.20] on Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 12:36:33 :
In Reply to: Ford trucks trailer backing up. OT posted by The Dodge Boys [173.245.54.15] on Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 09:06:02 :
That is the F150. I would not trust it at all. The new self driving and braking vehicles scare me. I will not buy one until the manufactures agree to assume all liability if their system fails and causes an accident. Yes plane automation seems to work with occasional failures that have caused crashes. But automating flight is a lot more simple than automating a car. There is so much more around you (think about how many cars are on the road around you) and so much more manovering in a car verses a plane. A plane makes far fewer manovers and has many orders of magnitude less chances for collisions and do not keep constantly trying to calculate the trajectory of many close moving objects. That takes tremendous computing power. Hopefully they will be much more stable than your Windows computer. Microsoft spent years trying to get their software and etc into cars. They were rejected over and over as they did not understand the reliability required to control the engine and etc and could not produce that reliability. They did finally get so entertainment and navigation systems in to some cars. My Ford truck has their nav system and it totally sucks. My iPhone does much better with Google maps.