Sunday, 11 August 2013

INTELLIGENT CAR



Theft news is the front page news now-a-days in almost every news paper. Not just homes or shops but even our precious car is not safe. This crime is increasing day-by-day. Every year the police release statistics relating to stolen automobiles. Protect your car from being stolen is crucial because even though your insurance will pay for a new car, your premium will sky rocket as a result. You can do a lot to protect your car by using an antitheft device but all goes in vain. But now it’s enough, the time has come to put a restriction on such false activity. If someone now steals the car, we can stop the car even if we are too much far from our car.

The theft proof section of car is RF based, not DTMF based, as DTMF system is comparatively expensive and also interfacing with the circuit is not easy. But in this system (RF based), we just have to place a cell phone near a RF sensing circuit i.e. direct interfacing is not required.Another disadvantage lies with the DTMF that we have to attend a call but in this system just a miss call will do everything. The car shown is also pollution free i.e. solar panel is using for charging of the battery which supplies DC supply to the circuitry.




One of those technology news stories that periodically hits the headlines is that of the "Intelligent Car". Now, I am by trade a computer programmer. In other words, I have to deal with bally computers all day every day.There is an ever increasing trend to try and make computer programs work out what you want to do and do it for you. That would be fine if they were right every time, but they are not. The problem is worse if you use common applications, such as an office suite, in uncommon ways as the predicting code is tweaked for best results with the average user. This is a common occurrence for computer programmers.A certain famous software company responsible for both a common operating system and a common office suite at the time of writing seems to me to be one of the worst for making it difficult to stop their programs from making unhelpful predictions or reversing what their programs do automatically to "help".That is bad enough in an operating system or office suite but, put the two points together, and it seems obvious that the last thing you want is an intelligent car at today's levels of "intelligence". The difficult part was deciding how to have the car's predictions turn out to be "right" but still obviously only as a result of making the predictions in the first place but it all turned out "alright" in the end.


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