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I wonder how long before New York City walkers realize they can safely cross in front of Teslas without worrying about getting hit.

graeme 11y ago
Do you think dash cams + automated flagging of such incidents by the software could counter that?
- to3m 11y ago
  Counter what? Should people not be allowed to cross the road?!
  - graeme 11y ago
    No, not that. The comment I replied to was implying that once people figured out car AI wouldn't kill them, they'd just halt cars for the fun of it or when they felt like it. With a fallible human behind the wheel, you can't take chances like that. (To be clear, I don't drive and am for pedestrianism. But I can see how it would be a problem if people can simply block autonomous cars. I'm also worried that a heavy handed response to that problem could harm pedestrianism.)
abruzzi 11y ago
I've been wondering, when we get to the point that there is a mix of autonomous and human driven vehicles on the road, if we will see the human driven vehicles start to game the autonomous vehicles' collision avoidance systems? For example, the main reason not to cut off traffic is because the driver might not react quickly enough (ok, the other reason is no to be a jerk.) but with autonomous vehicles, human driver may be able to become significantly more aggressive, knowing that the autonomous vehicle will get out of the way. (As a side note, I wonder how autonomous vehicles will handle lane splitting motorcycles? They get pretty close to the cars to either side.)
- jonknee 11y ago
  The autonomous car could automatically send the video and sensor data of illegal human driving behavior to the appropriate authorities. It seems pretty stupid to drive dangerously around a car that's recording so much information.
  - toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Google has a patent on algorithms for detecting dangerous drivers: https://www.google.com/patents/US20110202305 https://www.google.com/patents/US20110202305 Free idea I've kicked around: Give away free dashcams to drivers that upload their footage nightly to Google (with user's permission), have Google process the data to find high risk drivers, sell that information to their insurance companies to properly re-price their premiums. Take a cut, share said cut with dashcam drivers. Drive the price of human driven vehicle insurance high enough to where self-driving vehicles are the logical choice.
  - tbabb 11y ago
    For drunk driving and near accidents? Sure. For tattletale speeding tickets? No thank you.
  - daveloyall 11y ago
    Did you just suggest that these drones should be programmed to record our activities and report them to the police?

graeme 11y ago

Do you think dash cams + automated flagging of such incidents by the software could counter that?

to3m 11y ago
Counter what? Should people not be allowed to cross the road?!
- graeme 11y ago
  No, not that. The comment I replied to was implying that once people figured out car AI wouldn't kill them, they'd just halt cars for the fun of it or when they felt like it. With a fallible human behind the wheel, you can't take chances like that. (To be clear, I don't drive and am for pedestrianism. But I can see how it would be a problem if people can simply block autonomous cars. I'm also worried that a heavy handed response to that problem could harm pedestrianism.)

abruzzi 11y ago

I've been wondering, when we get to the point that there is a mix of autonomous and human driven vehicles on the road, if we will see the human driven vehicles start to game the autonomous vehicles' collision avoidance systems? For example, the main reason not to cut off traffic is because the driver might not react quickly enough (ok, the other reason is no to be a jerk.) but with autonomous vehicles, human driver may be able to become significantly more aggressive, knowing that the autonomous vehicle will get out of the way. (As a side note, I wonder how autonomous vehicles will handle lane splitting motorcycles? They get pretty close to the cars to either side.)

jonknee 11y ago
The autonomous car could automatically send the video and sensor data of illegal human driving behavior to the appropriate authorities. It seems pretty stupid to drive dangerously around a car that's recording so much information.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  Google has a patent on algorithms for detecting dangerous drivers: https://www.google.com/patents/US20110202305 https://www.google.com/patents/US20110202305 Free idea I've kicked around: Give away free dashcams to drivers that upload their footage nightly to Google (with user's permission), have Google process the data to find high risk drivers, sell that information to their insurance companies to properly re-price their premiums. Take a cut, share said cut with dashcam drivers. Drive the price of human driven vehicle insurance high enough to where self-driving vehicles are the logical choice.
- tbabb 11y ago
  For drunk driving and near accidents? Sure. For tattletale speeding tickets? No thank you.
- daveloyall 11y ago
  Did you just suggest that these drones should be programmed to record our activities and report them to the police?