Toyota UA-LAC

[Dave]

bah, that's nothing.  the us army, according to a report I read this week,
is actively developing the next generation of automous battlefield robot
that is capable of making err, "tactical" decisions.  apparently the baddies
have a nasty habit of interfering with the uplinks that allow the current
devices to be under the control of a person with (presumably) relatively
advanced cognitive and moral sensitivities.  clearly they must know
something about the state of computer science that i don't. lemme see, "the
bad guys are the ones with the beards and the scowls"...

back on the toyota recall, autonews is reporting that the usa rental fleets
are parking up their toyotas and the recall is now affecting europe as well.
that's pretty serious.

also, whilst i have "drive by wire" i have found the "hit the brake and the
throttle is closed" feature pretty annoying.  on my current car you work
around it by the conscious effort of releasing the throttle and then
pressing it again - in which event the motronic allows both the brake and
throttle to be pressed together.  i'm pretty happy with that as a
compromise...

dave
'03 rs6
'04 allroad tdi

On 29/01/10 9:00 AM, "quattro-request at audifans.com"
<quattro-request at audifans.com> wrote:

> I saw an episode of Top Gear a while back where BMW showed an autonomous
> vehicle that drove their course fairly aggressively.  They "trained" the
> vehicle on the course, given the vehicle can assess things like amount of
> traction and nearby traffic the car could do a better job in some ways than
> most drivers.  If responsibility of the driver is going to be reduced, this
> is the model used.  The driver needs to assume full responsibility for the
> operation of the vehicle or none, anything different is dangerous for all.