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The point is any anti-collision system should be smart enough to tell the difference between a car and a bag. It should NEVER let you plow into another car just
by slacka 10y ago
The point is any anti-collision system should be smart enough to tell the difference between a car and a bag. It should NEVER let you plow into another car just because you tapped the brake. It shouldn't even matter if autopilot is on or off. Only if this was a child or animal, could I see the bag argument.
Also, it was a UI failure not notifying the driver clearly that auto-pilot has disengaged. Even the primitive cruise control in my car has a big green light, that turns off when you tap the break. The more autonomous a car is, the more important it is to clearly notify the driver of control handoff.
- gambiting 10y agoWell of course, but there are always edge cases. Large rock, or a football? A person, vs. a cardboard cutout of a person? An empty plastic bag, vs. heavy bag with clearly something in it? A human can instantly tell the difference between all three, but for a computer to do it you would need some extremely good image recognition(in the case of a loaded bag the problem becomes near impossible, it's hard enough to just recognize something as a bag, being able to tell if it's weighted requires spatial awareness that no one proposed how to solve yet). In the meantime out best of the best image recognition software can't tell a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print apart. So for now, while we wait for the algorithms to improve, there should always be an easy (with an emphasis on easy) way to disable automatic breaking.