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Why Would Driverless Cars Need Rules For Crashing?
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we are continually being told they are perfect.
we are continually being told they are perfect.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Moving away from your own driving ability, it is nevertheless true that humans are overconfident in their own skills in general. As I say, the statistics demonstrate how untrustworthy humans as drivers should be. Fatal accidents, severe or slight injuries, or just damage to expensive equipment are commonplace and really need not be. Hand over day-to-day driving to a system and the reduction in accidents will certainly be huge. Not total -- because, despite TTT's protestation, no-one ever claimed they would be perfect -- but as near as dammit. Today the road deaths per year are over 1500 in the UK (interestingly, there has been a huge reduction in the last few years, from a high of 3,500 in 2003); does anyone seriously expect this figure to increase if unreliable, temperamental, easily-distracted humans are largely removed in favour of an automatic system?
I would have said I 'thought' there was nothing there. Not that I 'knew'. See the subtle difference?
I'm not being pedantic here. Your stopping and looking proves that you took heed of a 'machine' over your own senses, even when you 'knew' there was nothing there. The machine saw something you didn't. Driverless cars will be equipped with sensors far more advanced than the 'parking' ones which can detect potential hazards much better than humans.
I'm not being pedantic here. Your stopping and looking proves that you took heed of a 'machine' over your own senses, even when you 'knew' there was nothing there. The machine saw something you didn't. Driverless cars will be equipped with sensors far more advanced than the 'parking' ones which can detect potential hazards much better than humans.
obviously they stilll need programming to spot a bus though....
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The real benefits are about 15 years off when all the cars become networked and synced instead of stand alone computers on wheels.
When they are all connected to one brain, they can be driven at high speed. If the system become congested, the answer will be to increase speed from say 150mph to 200mph. There will be no need for 8 lane motorways, 4 will be plenty. The redundant lanes can be given to walkers and cyclists. Infrastructure will change too. No need to barriers and walls, no road markings, no street lighting.
When they are all connected to one brain, they can be driven at high speed. If the system become congested, the answer will be to increase speed from say 150mph to 200mph. There will be no need for 8 lane motorways, 4 will be plenty. The redundant lanes can be given to walkers and cyclists. Infrastructure will change too. No need to barriers and walls, no road markings, no street lighting.
You might be right about the timescale Gromit, although in general I just prefer being conservative when estimating how long things will take. If it's five, ten, 20 or 50 years, though, it's worth waiting for. The roads will be far safer once the transition happens. And, by the by, road travel will probably be rather smoother with fewer disruptions.
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I am not talking about AI.
Syncing your computer car to a network controlled by a central computer is nothing new or clever. At the moment, the problem to overcome in achieving that is computering power, to process all the data from millions of cars in an instant. But that is an engineering problem that will be overcome.
I am not talking about AI.
Syncing your computer car to a network controlled by a central computer is nothing new or clever. At the moment, the problem to overcome in achieving that is computering power, to process all the data from millions of cars in an instant. But that is an engineering problem that will be overcome.
// I’m confused. //
At last, something we can agree on.
It is simple. The computer car or the computer aeroplane has a human back up. But the back up is only as good as the human. The Google driver had passed a driving test and was licensed to drive. He/or she was sat at the wheel of the car, yet did not then stop the car crashing.
Without knowing the circumstances of that crash, it is impossible to say why the automating system and the driver were both failed.
At last, something we can agree on.
It is simple. The computer car or the computer aeroplane has a human back up. But the back up is only as good as the human. The Google driver had passed a driving test and was licensed to drive. He/or she was sat at the wheel of the car, yet did not then stop the car crashing.
Without knowing the circumstances of that crash, it is impossible to say why the automating system and the driver were both failed.
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