Apple Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober Working on Anti-Motion Sickness VR Technology for Use in Autonomous Vehicles

[macduke]

I had no idea that Mark Rober was an Apple engineer. Huh. I don't watch his videos a lot but I've watched a good amount of them, mainly a few years ago.

Why would a self-driving car have a special need for motion sickness relief? Are the issues any different from those of a passenger in a taxi, for example?

Well, I can think of at least Google using something like this. Their idea is to seed the world with free, self-driving cars that basically have no windows and stream ads all over the interior. Hopefully Apple isn't working on something like this, but I can think of another idea: Isn't it technically safer to ride in a car facing reverse? But this also induces motion sickness. So maybe this could be used to mitigate that as self-driving cars could possibly be designed this way for additional safety?

 

[TheTruth101]

My father is in good health. But one eye is already f**** up.

My parents live in a rural area, where they NEED the car even for basic daily needs like buying bread as everything is far from home.

There are lots of people in that situation and much worse, driving is nice but cars that drive themselves are in need today, and even more in the future where people live longer.

These cars are not targeting that people, are targeting the lazy.
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Americans spend on average 17000 minutes in a car a year. Many people get headaches from trying to read articles or use a laptop while in a car. Would be nice if someone improved that experience.

You know how? walkable cities. No cars needed.

Cities are a bad design, are meant for cars, not for people. You need to have 4 story buildings, business downstairs and living spaces upstairs. No elevators. That way people can go to the street and walk and take the subway. That will create a sense of community too.

Today Americans in special, live in a box, get into another box (your car) to arrive to another box (your office). With how many new people do you interact during the day? none. That causes social anxiety, depression and isolation.

Self-driving cars are not the solution, it is paraphrasing the same problem. People shouldn't need to go to one side of the city to another, trains and subways are better for that. Look New York, look Berlin and London, Tokio. People walk.

 

[farewelwilliams]

These cars are not targeting that people, are targeting the lazy.
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You know how? walkable cities. No cars needed.

Cities are a bad design, are meant for cars, not for people. You need to have 4 story buildings, business downstairs and living spaces upstairs. No elevators. That way people can go to the street and walk and take the subway. That will create a sense of community too.

Today Americans in special, live in a box, get into another box (your car) to arrive to another box (your office). With how many new people do you interact during the day? none. That causes social anxiety, depression and isolation.

Self-driving cars are not the solution, it is paraphrasing the same problem. People shouldn't need to go to one side of the city to another, trains and subways are better for that. Look New York, look Berlin and London, Tokio. People walk.

no thanks. i like cities that don't have giant tall buildings. i also like cities that aren't littered with endless construction noise. go look at one of the vlogs by the popular casey neistat. he said he found the PERFECT apartment in NYC but had to move because the construction noise was NON-STOP. also riding the subway in New York City and in Tokyo were such terrible experiences for me. lastly look at the average size of an apartment in those cities. way too tiny for me.

there are plenty of ways to socialize. don't need a city to make that happen. in fact, people in NYC are much more unfriendly compared to where i live now (not in a dense city).

self driving cars + riding boring tunnels makes the most sense given with what we have now.

 

[rjp1]

LOL... do you remember when you used to get into the car and just drive it?

What about when the girl on your side wants to "hold your hand"?

All these technologies are rendering people useless. It reminds me the intro of the movie Idiocracy, human evolution used to reward the smartest but there was a point that everything started to be so easy that people became lazy and evolution stop rewarding intelligence but instead started to reward fertility.

With augmented reality - the girl that wants to hold your hand can now be whoever you want it to be.

 

[jasonsmith_88]

Here is the bottom line: I will never buy a fully autonomous vehicle. Yes, I said never and I do indeed mean that.

Thankfully the option won't be up to luddites like you; one day humans won't be allowed behind the wheel for both safety and efficiency reasons. You have the choice to move forward with the world or become bitter about it.

I may be wrong but I suspect this technology will never be deployed to the general population. Instead I believe it will be limited to industrial applications like moving parts around in a factory or other internal uses. The very idea of A.I. interacting with real human beings at 45-to70mph is scary.

You know what scares me? Humans interacting with other humans in cars while drunk, on drugs, on their phone, distracted, or tired. Humans who mistake the brake pedal for the accelerator. Humans who have reaction times so slow that they've already killed someone before they can even process what's happening. Humans who have no idea how to control a vehicle in an emergency.

It's a very weird phenomenon. Ask anyone to think about the future and they can't picture anything much different from what exists now; it just won't happen because "insert reason here". How many people in the 80s suspected we'd have supercomputers in our pockets? And yet year after year, these things that people said will never happen keep happening.

Autonomous vehicles in their current infant state already have the capacity to reduce road accidents. That's a fact which you appear to be aware of. And technology can only go in one direction - forward. Whether people "trust" it or not is of absolutely no significance. People will cry and winge and stomp their feet but governments will force the technology onto us through legislation (think seatbelts airbags, traction control, AEB etc) because "AI is scary" is not a valid argument against statistical data.

And the quicker we get humans out of the drivers seat, the better it'll be for everyone. I cannot wait.

 

[star-affinity]

I poop in the car, what Apple would do about it?

 

[Tapiture]

Anyone else think Mark Rober is freaking annoying as hell?