Passed Through A Red Light....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50973794
Oh dear two more dead on the altar of impossible dreams. How many more must die before they accept autonomous vehicles are not feasible?

[TheChair]

Which of these two statements in the article did you not understand TTT?
"Authorities did not say whether the Tesla's Autopilot played a role."
"Several collisions have been blamed on a lack of attention from the driver rather than an error with the Tesla Autopilot system."

[New Judge]

//Well yes what is the difference? TTT has issue with the computer, not the other cars on the road.//

The difference is as I've explained. An aircraft landing on "Autoland" is essentially controlled from the ground and has only one thing to avoid collision with - the ground - which is somewhat stationary. An autonomous car is controlled solely from within the vehicle and it reacts to things around it - some stationary and some moving unpredictably. The comparison you made is specious.

[archibaldy]

Safety is not the primary factor that will decide the feasibility of autonomous vehicles, just like human controlled vehicles actually. Primary factors, as ever, are financial benefit and convenience.

Large convoys of HGV's will likely be the first en masse deployments of fully autonomous fleets as there are huge cost savings to be had in this industry using autonomy.

[vulcan42]

The problem is we are in a transitional stage, when all vehicles are controlled and linked by computers, roads will be safer.

[piggynose]

Is red the new amber?

[piggynose]

I ask because in Madrid, it seems common practice to drive through red lights as if they were red.

[piggynose]

Or amber even.

[mushroom25]

//Large convoys of HGV's will likely be the first en masse deployments of fully autonomous fleets //

indeed - and probably phased, with vehicles on motorways being the first, as legislation already exists to prohibit certain classes of road user, and this can (will) be extended to include vehicles that do not have autonomous capability.

society will also need to decide whether the use of autonomous trucks will go hand-in-hand with an increase in allowable weight - such a move will bring large economic benefits for every commodity consumed in the UK, but at an environmental cost as this would kill freight on the railways forever.

[Spicerack]

What makes you think the Tesla went through the red light?
'reportedly went through the red light' is newspeak for 'we haven't got a clue what happened but that'll give the story legs'.

[Zacs-Master]

‘ On Sunday, a Tesla Model S sedan left a freeway in Harbor Gateway, at a high speed, ran a red light and struck a Honda Civic, killing two people inside, police said.’
https://abc7.com/5811087/

[Spicerack]

The video in your link (zacs) says the police said 'may have ran a red light'. Confused? I'll await the outcome of the investigation.