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Jeep Testing Self Driving, Off Road Vehicles
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And here I like four wheeling a lot because it added a third dimension to road race tracks I started out on. Not that I go fast up and over rocks, quite the opposite, but it requires quite a bit more driver finesse to make a vehicle go places it rightfully shouldn't be able to, I think (driving off the track was easy).
Making the Jeep perform better is obviously a big part of it, learning what works and what doesn't and modify things accordingly, but to then become one enough with it to know pretty much what it could and couldn't do in most any given situation was very rewarding.
Yes, it resulted in numerous rollovers and much brakeage, but how else would I learn? True, I have said that there's a trail in northern California I've driven so many times that I could probably just put the Jeep in gear and it'd get to camp by itself.
BUT I WAS JOKING!
My guess is that an autonomous Jeep would not only refuse to even try going on the kind of trails I like, but contact Stellantis (through Uconnect) and shut itself down, then arrange for transport to a dealer. Which I wouldn't mind.
Okay, this is what I think now. Ask me again if I become a quadriplegic. Then the thought might be tolerable.
Making the Jeep perform better is obviously a big part of it, learning what works and what doesn't and modify things accordingly, but to then become one enough with it to know pretty much what it could and couldn't do in most any given situation was very rewarding.
Yes, it resulted in numerous rollovers and much brakeage, but how else would I learn? True, I have said that there's a trail in northern California I've driven so many times that I could probably just put the Jeep in gear and it'd get to camp by itself.
BUT I WAS JOKING!
My guess is that an autonomous Jeep would not only refuse to even try going on the kind of trails I like, but contact Stellantis (through Uconnect) and shut itself down, then arrange for transport to a dealer. Which I wouldn't mind.
Okay, this is what I think now. Ask me again if I become a quadriplegic. Then the thought might be tolerable.
