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It would also imply that anyone with access to road marking paint can fool autonomous vehicles into misbehavior.
by akira2501 11y ago
It would also imply that anyone with access to road marking paint can fool autonomous vehicles into misbehavior.
- knodi123 11y agoSuch tricks could fool a significant percentage of humans, too.
- philipov 11y agoAnd road construction crews love to play those tricks. There's a spot on the FDR highway around NYC where for years the road was redirected to swerve, but the lane markings remained straight. If you were not paying full attention and just followed the lines, you'd drive straight into the wall.
- mirimir 11y agoHey, in Mexico, they dig holes in the road, and don't mark them ;)
- fapjacks 11y agoThat seems like a ripe... opportunity for lawsuit.
- jonnathanson 11y agoThat seems less like a fun prank and more like sociopathy. I'm really surprised nobody got sued. (I'm not a lawyer, but "We created an optical illusion directing people to crash into a wall, so those victims should have been paying attention and figuring it out" doesn't strike me as a robust defense in court.)
- Shivetya 11y agoI am still trying to understand the logic of cars that follow other cars, as if you can trust them. How much deviance from the lane can the car you are following take before the autopilot just says, hell no. the state of the roads isn't what is stopping self driving cars. considering the amount of road construction going on at any one time no amount of markings are going to help, then toss in rain, bad lighting, and snow. No, what is holding them back is the programming and processing power that cars are expected to mount. As humans can drive with on their sense of sight cars will have the advantage of sight that see in conditions people cannot plus also have maps available at all times which should give guidance on where the roads really are. The roads are deteriorating foil is typical election year crying. the bridges and roads are much improved since the 90s and the key fact most writers and readers of these articles don't understand is, the federal government does not have domain over many of the roads that need maintenance.
- sunsu 11y agoI am not aware of any vehicle with autonomous capabilities which bases it's operation on "following other cars".
- icefox 11y agoA number of cars including the Infiniti Q50 have a variation of the "follow the car in front of me", I used it the other day on the highway it is more about cruise, but combined with the stay in lane feature that it also has it might quality for what you are looking for.
- manicdee 11y agoThe Tesla Model S, X and imminent 3 use this heuristic. The autopilot will look for lane markings or road surface edges, but seems to favour following the vehicle in front where possible. This especially helps drive better in rainy weather where road markings are obscured by reflections.
- djsumdog 11y agoWow...that's like literally "If all your friends jumped off a cliff..." If you had a line of self driving cars, and one mistakenly heads for a ledge in a bad rain storm, there is the potential many of the following cards could do the same as well.
- tim333 11y agoNot exactly. I've followed a car in front in fog where I couldn't really see where I was going and I figured if there was a wall or cliff or something I'd see the car in front deal do odd stuff and hit my brakes.
- pjc50 11y agoLike Wile E Coyote painting pictures of tunnels on walls?