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Is rule of law in traffic important for self-driving cars? If self-driving cars are based on neural networks rather than on rule-based systems, do we have any k
by laretluval 10y ago
Is rule of law in traffic important for self-driving cars? If self-driving cars are based on neural networks rather than on rule-based systems, do we have any kind of intuition about under what kinds of traffic circumstances they will do well?
- salgernon 10y agoI would imagine a (truly) self driving car wound not assert itself aggressively - but carefully - in a crowded square and would therefore not make any progress at all. A steady stream of pedestrians jay-walking, knowing that they had nothing to fear. (Or at least, believing they had nothing to fear.)
- brianpgordon 10y agoSee this gif: https://i.imgur.com/loW46yj.gif https://i.imgur.com/loW46yj.gif Humans have the luxury of being able to charge into an uncontrolled intersection and trusting other drivers to make room. Sure 1% of the time it's going to cause a fender-bender, but that's just what you have to do in order to get through the intersection. There's no way that taking chances like that would fly with a self-driving car. Even though the human passenger would have done the same thing, they're still going to feel like the car company owes them for "the car's mistake" when it's involved in a collision.
- wodenokoto 10y agoOn what grounds do we have that trust? You can just as easily teach a computer to trust people to make way as you can teach it to assume people won't make way.
- brianpgordon 10y agoYes, you could. Like I said. And like I said, good luck marketing a product that drives recklessly into a busy intersection hoping that people will move.