NEWS and commentary
Jeep Wrangler spy shots show a pickup!
http://www.autoblog.com/2017/05/17/jeep-wrangler-pickup-spy-shots-ground-level/#slide-5035536
Desert sand dunes in Oklahoma?
http://www.duneguide.com/sand_dune_guide_little_sahara_ok.htm
Autonomous vehicle crashes in Arizona
An Uber vehicle being tested had crashed and flipped on it's side.
Reading about this made me realize the fundamental problem with this whole self driving car concept.
With normal cars that are driven, when things fail they don't pull all cars from being driven except in rare instances with certain recalls, even then, there is never been a situation where all cars of a certain model were banned from driving, because the basic design and assembly of cars is reliable. Cars are tested enough to know that their basically simple design works properly before they leave the factory. With normal cars when the driver fails by driving drunk or texting or distractions and getting into the crash, the driver can be pulled from driving the vehicle or other vehicles, but the car design remains drive able.
NOT SO with driverless cars. What we have here is the idea of REPLACING the driver with a machine and sensors, and this is wrought with serious problems and i think will NEVER be workable in the real world of driving. We are trying to replace humans with machines in a very complex environment. The real world of driving has so many factors and aspects to it, no machine can compare to the human ability to process the information.
The article stated: the company’s self-driving arm has seen little
progress in the overall reliability of its autonomous systems.
As of
the beginning of March, safety drivers had to take back control an
average of once per .8 miles.
I think we FIRST need to create a human robot that can clean house every day without breaking anything, then we can look at machines driving themselves and us around. Autonomous cars are likely never going to fly, litterally and figurratively. There's too many things in it's way all over the place going different speeds, too many reflections it can misjudge where a human wouldn't, on and on. Airplanes that "fly themselves" don't have these problems.
Cluch change tip to lock in place when tightening and loosening bolts
Using a cut piece of an old flexplate as seen in this image from perfectionclutch video it makes it so that with one person you can tighten up the bolts properly when replacing a clutch assembly.
Goodyear introduces a concept tire shaped like a planet
It's based on the concept of levitation and magnetics. You gotta watch this video.
Volvo says self driving cars better without humans as backup
great now just as soon as they create robot housekeepers like the one in
the Jetsons, that cook and clean, and not just robot vacuum cleaners,
ones that shovel the show in winter, and show us how great their cars
drive through snow (they can't judge snow and rain very well at all)
then we are getting somewhere, I mean like even in the Jetsons the
vehicles had to be driven by humans
Government website
changes position on climate change
says that it's a matter of debate
Solar power claimed to now be cheaper than "fossil" fuels
great now would someone please let us know when they use only solar power to
manufacture the things and they stop using fossils
Wattway powers the world's first solar road
this is in test phase
now
The Tesla model X is an "awful car"
as one reviewer puts it
he must be joking right?
Dodge adds all wheel drive to the Challenger
go off road check list and tips with your YJ Jeep Wrangler and other vehicles
Windmill horrors! Safety break malfunctions in high wind and turbine explodes