5 ms·
Only it's /not/ the same. A driver 'under the influence' can't sober up in ~5-10 seconds. A driver 'under the influence' can't /plan/ when they're going to de
by mjevans 10y ago
Only it's /not/ the same.
A driver 'under the influence' can't sober up in ~5-10 seconds.
A driver 'under the influence' can't /plan/ when they're going to dedicate a few seconds to interacting with a radio, or a GPS, or opening up a voice input prompt to something.
What WOULD make it safer, however, is if the UI guidelines for a platform followed common sense. If they realized that OF COURSE drivers will click through some annoying popup. That it would be SAFER if they STREAMLINED interaction and gave a more astronaut glove friendly interface.
- saurik 10y agoThankfully, both of these are temporary problems: in another five years we will start transitioning large numbers of people to self-driving cars (whether privately owned or simply self-driving taxis), and this problem will go into decline.
- ars 10y agoNo we won't. There will not be in-city self driving cars for decades. There will be self driving cars on the freeway in specially marked and instrumented lanes made just for self driving trucks (cars will come later). But not in-city. Not till there is general AI.
- asdfologist 10y agoThis is one of those comments that people will dig up and mock on HN in about 5 years.
- tempestn 10y agoI except reality will fall somewhere between their two responses myself.
- Teever 10y agoOr maybe yours will be. I give it 50/50.
- ars 10y agoGoogle started in 2009, it's now 7 years later. We (they) are no closer to success than they were when they started. (The cars can only drive on pre-programmed roads with a human marking any changes such as temporary traffic lights.) What makes you think that they will succeed in 5 years if they have not solved the hard problems in the last 7? No. Self driving cars (trucks actually) will only drive on limited access roads AKA freeways. Those roads are controlled, and any changes can be easily programmed in.