This reminds me of automated combines that can pilot themselves within geofenced fields. It makes sense to automate or remote control things that are used in empty, controlled areas. When I read...
This reminds me of automated combines that can pilot themselves within geofenced fields. It makes sense to automate or remote control things that are used in empty, controlled areas. When I read the headline my mind jumped to clearing roads, but these sound like they are geared towards private property, like cargo lots and corporate parking lots.
I don't think mailboxes would be a problem. Such an application would definitely use differential GPS, which gives the plow a position accuracy of <1 inch. Cars are also probably not the main...
I don't think mailboxes would be a problem. Such an application would definitely use differential GPS, which gives the plow a position accuracy of <1 inch.
Cars are also probably not the main issue, automotive radar should pick them up even in the worst snow storms, potentially much better than a driver would.
The trouble really starts once you have tree branches and entire trees on the road, avalanches and slides blocking roads to a degree the plow can't clear or people walking around in the snow storm.
Oh yeah, you can't just rely on preexisting road GPS data. You still have map the routes the plow takes, ideally by having a driver drive them with a plow. And yes, in those cases newly planted...
Oh yeah, you can't just rely on preexisting road GPS data. You still have map the routes the plow takes, ideally by having a driver drive them with a plow.
And yes, in those cases newly planted mailboxes might get plowed if they don't show up on radar clearly enough.
This reminds me of automated combines that can pilot themselves within geofenced fields. It makes sense to automate or remote control things that are used in empty, controlled areas. When I read the headline my mind jumped to clearing roads, but these sound like they are geared towards private property, like cargo lots and corporate parking lots.
Oh god, I can't imagine how many cars and mailboxes would be destroyed by an automated snowplow on a road.
I don't think mailboxes would be a problem. Such an application would definitely use differential GPS, which gives the plow a position accuracy of <1 inch.
Cars are also probably not the main issue, automotive radar should pick them up even in the worst snow storms, potentially much better than a driver would.
The trouble really starts once you have tree branches and entire trees on the road, avalanches and slides blocking roads to a degree the plow can't clear or people walking around in the snow storm.
There's a large number of narrow streets around me with mailboxes jutting out almost a foot into the road in places. That's what I had in my head.
Oh yeah, you can't just rely on preexisting road GPS data. You still have map the routes the plow takes, ideally by having a driver drive them with a plow.
And yes, in those cases newly planted mailboxes might get plowed if they don't show up on radar clearly enough.
That moment when you realize how to solve climate change AND get DeJoy fired at the same time.