Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

"It's just like in an automobile," I had to explain patiently toNorbert. "You can follow the car ahead more closely if you're goingmore slowly; when you're stopped, you can almost touch it. WithAramis, the advantage is to be able to bump a bit, even in motion,thanks to the shock absorbers."This anticollision principle leads to ensuring, at thelevel of the vehicles, the following operations :-absolute and instantaneous measure of the abscissa andthe speed;"It's like reading the speedometer III40 kilometers/hour."a car, 20 kilometers/hour,-communication of the coordinates (abscissa/speed) ofthe target vehicle;-calculation of the relative distance separating the vehiclefrom its target ;-e laboration of a security speed threshold not to be exceeded,a function of the relat ive distance and the absolutespeed of the target ;"If you're 1 00 meters away and going 50 kilometers/hour, it'smore dangerous than if you're 100 meters away and going 10 kilometers/hour."-irreversible emergency braking command if the speedthreshold is exceeded.ARAMIS ATTHE eEl STAGE