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How should the car have responded to the cyclist? In ambiguous stops like this I find non-verbal social cues like nods, facial expressions, and hand waves are t
by tdaltonc 11y ago
How should the car have responded to the cyclist? In ambiguous stops like this I find non-verbal social cues like nods, facial expressions, and hand waves are the only way to break the impasse.
- idlewords 11y agoTo a fixie? Pursue it remorselessly at top speed for however long it takes to run it down.
- nxb 11y agoYes, communicating / negotiating the decision with the other person. That's how humans do it. Now try driving in dense NYC traffic, and you'll see humans communicating everywhere. Good luck to self driving cars in that scenario - unless humans are 100% off the roads.
- Zigurd 11y agoEven a minority of self-driving cars will change traffic, probably for the better in the vast majority of cases. Human drivers following a self-driving car will have to adopt the self-driving car's caution, moderate acceleration, and deference to pedestrians and cyclists.
- jarek 11y agoGood luck getting anywhere in Manhattan if you practice total deference to pedestrians and communicate that you do (e.g. by looking like a Google car)
- mattzito 11y agoPotentially the car could flash the headlights, a signal that's commonly used today to say, "I am waiting for you to go".
- ams6110 11y agoNot everwhere. The other meaning for flashing headlights is "get out of my way, I'm coming through"
- monochromatic 11y agoYeah, but if you're stopped... it probably means "go right ahead."
- jessaustin 11y agoThis reminds me of the driving I saw when I traveled to India many years ago. On relatively-major "two-lane" roads, trash and draft-animal traffic would force trucks to drive basically in the center of the road. When two trucks met, they would each swerve slightly to the right so as to barely avoid crashing. Before they met, however, they would each turn on their left signal light. Our driver said it was supposed to intimidate oncoming traffic into leaving more room.
- aptwebapps 11y agoIn India they drive on the left, did you get your sides switched?
- jessaustin 11y agoHaha yes I must have.
- foobarian 11y agoHow about instead of waving hands or nodding, just step down and stand still until the car passes.
- antod 11y agoAdds a new meaning to collision detection... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_with_collision_detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_... Sounds a bit like what the car was already doing, just that a track stand creates a few false positives.
- analog31 11y agoMy thought is that the existing set of signals on a car are solutions the existing problems of human drivers, and maybe a self driving car needs additional signals. A flashing green light could mean "I am yielding to you, and get some new bar tape." ;-)