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I wonder how they're going to handle event traffic. Football games, concerts and other events where the traffic is being heavily managed by traffic officers on
by Lendal 11y ago
I wonder how they're going to handle event traffic. Football games, concerts and other events where the traffic is being heavily managed by traffic officers on the street. You're supposed to obey the traffic officer and ignore traffic lights, stop signs and even road directionality. If they direct you to go the wrong way down a one-way street, that's what you do because it is special event traffic.
Will the self-driving cars be able to handle this?
- dantiberian 11y agoPerhaps Google will open up an API for authorities to override map information for temporary events.
- ninkendo 11y agoI think that solution would be far worse. Could you imagine if it got hacked? Some hacker sends all self-driving cars the wrong way down some one-way street.
- kuschku 11y agoAnd even if the Google side doesn’t get hacked – as we’ve seen before, the government side will contract this out to the lowest bidder, who’ll hire some guy in china to do it and give him full root access.
- blahedo 11y agoOoh, just wait til that gets hacked. Yikes. ...not that I think you're wrong.
- frankchn 11y agoI don't know if they can handle it at the moment, but traffic management during events at Shoreline Amphitheater definitely provides a great opportunity for Google to test this in its backyard.
- MattHeard 11y agoThe TED talk that Chris Urmson gave shows an example of the Google cars detecting a police officer giving signals.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg?t=10m https://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg?t=10m