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I can understand self driving cars eventually being practical on long simple roads. But I can't even imagine how one could get to my house. My road has cars pa

by jbb555 10y ago

I can understand self driving cars eventually being practical on long simple roads. But I can't even imagine how one could get to my house. My road has cars parked on both sides. Sometimes vans. Sometimes they almost block the road. Sometimes there is a car coming the other way and you have to look for a space to pull into to so they can pass, or maybe back up 1/4 of a mile. Or hope the other car does. There are cones and roadworks quite often. I have significant difficulty driving down there, I don't see how an automatic car could any time soon at all. This might not be an issue if I owned the car. I could turn it off and drive down there myself but an automatic taxi couldnt do that unless there was a driver waiting in the car to do that if required. And if there is, he might as well drive it all and save thousands of [currency]

rsfern 10y ago
All these challenges are exactly why one would want to collect driving data in Pittsburgh, it seems to me. I saw a heavily instrumented Uber car driving down Liberty two days ago.
- jbb555 10y ago
  I guess that makes sense. And they can solve issues and make improvements one at a time untill it's good enough I guess. But I doubt that will be any time soon
jonknee 10y ago
> My road has cars parked on both sides. Sometimes vans. Sometimes they almost block the road. Somewhat ironically, once self driving cars figure out how to do this at scale there won't be cars parked on both sides of the road.
grecy 10y ago
> I can understand self driving cars eventually being practical on long simple roads. But I can't even imagine how one could get to my house. I can understand planes eventually being practical for transport, but the wind and noise and short distances they fly make them useless for passenger transport. I can understand computers eventually being practical for business-y folks, but the rooms they take up make them useless for normal folk. I can understand this internet thing is useful for nerds, but I can't see how regular people will ever use it. I can understand a "portable" telephone is a nice idea, but the breifcase of a battery I have to carry around makes it's way to big and heavy. ... need I go on? It's happening, whether you can imagine it or not.

by jbb555 10y ago

rsfern 10y ago

All these challenges are exactly why one would want to collect driving data in Pittsburgh, it seems to me. I saw a heavily instrumented Uber car driving down Liberty two days ago.

jbb555 10y ago
I guess that makes sense. And they can solve issues and make improvements one at a time untill it's good enough I guess. But I doubt that will be any time soon

jonknee 10y ago

> My road has cars parked on both sides. Sometimes vans. Sometimes they almost block the road. Somewhat ironically, once self driving cars figure out how to do this at scale there won't be cars parked on both sides of the road.

grecy 10y ago

> I can understand self driving cars eventually being practical on long simple roads. But I can't even imagine how one could get to my house. I can understand planes eventually being practical for transport, but the wind and noise and short distances they fly make them useless for passenger transport. I can understand computers eventually being practical for business-y folks, but the rooms they take up make them useless for normal folk. I can understand this internet thing is useful for nerds, but I can't see how regular people will ever use it. I can understand a "portable" telephone is a nice idea, but the breifcase of a battery I have to carry around makes it's way to big and heavy. ... need I go on? It's happening, whether you can imagine it or not.