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Bicycles, pedestrians, and cars detected by microwave dopplerradar.
On 1/17/2020 4:45 PM, Ted Heise wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:42:52 -0800 (PST), Andre Jute wrote: On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 9:04:26 PM UTC, Ted Heise wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:15:14 -0800, sms wrote: On 1/17/2020 8:10 AM, David Scheidt wrote: snip My car, and lots of newer cars, have blindspot sensors that detect something in the 'blindspot' beside and slightly behind the car. They light up signals on the mirrors. If I turn the turn signal on, they flash (and there's a beeper, if I try to change lanes, too). Both the lighting up and flashing are visible to someone out side the car. I see them come on other cars, when I ride past them when they're stopped and I'm not. In the past few weeks I've met with two large cloud service providers regarding "smart city" deployment of IOT. One big application for "smart city" is the use of various types of sensors for traffic of all kinds, trucks, cars, bicycles, and pedestrians. The privacy issue is one of the biggest hurdles. Radar is less intrusive than cameras but cameras have advantages. They will be used together. Inductive loops are not going to be around for many more years. The camera usage is amazing. My car shows current speed limit on the Car Play screen when I have Google mapping in use. It is occasionally wrong; I'm pretty confident it comes over the phone from some Google database. On the other hand, my wife's Volvo shows the current speed limit on the dashboard. It is always correct; I'm pretty certain the value comes from a forward facing camera reading the speed limit signs as they are encountered. That's in any event a huge leap forward from when all Volvo had (before any other cars) was a whiny nanny-voice telling you to belt up. I can totally relate. In addition to all the "safety" features (like warnings when you cross a lane stripe without signalling, or follow another vehicle too closely), my last car would lower the fan speed when I received a call on the system. Called it the nanny car. It's said that for every room in heaven, there's one just like it in hell for someone else. Automobiles as well. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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