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What about the case the stoplight stops functioning? This happens many times. Recently late at night in Flushing NY crew was working on replacing switches on th
by yeukhon 10y ago
What about the case the stoplight stops functioning? This happens many times. Recently late at night in Flushing NY crew was working on replacing switches on the stoplight and that caused outage so the Department of Transportation actually have asked the police department to send out officers to help direct traffic. Yeah, good luck with that if we are running self-driving car.
- rwmj 10y agoWhy? Two things could happen here: The self-driving car could recognize hand gestures. Or the police could carry a simple radio transmitter device which would transmit directions to the self-driving cars (while also making gestures for human-driven cars). This is hardly some insurmountable problem.
- massysett 10y agoSelf-driving car needs to adapt to the world; if police need a special device to communicate with the car, the car is unsafe and should be banned from public roads.
- rwmj 10y agoSo the enormous benefits of self-driving cars (many saved lives, mobility for people who cannot drive, reduced costs) should be prevented because we cannot equip police with a few radio transmitters? -- Assuming that is even needed, because Waymo's cars can recognize gestures made by cyclists already, so it's hardly a stretch to imagine them recognizing gestures made by policemen.
- landryraccoon 10y agoIt think it's more pragmatic than that. If Kansas doesn't want to equip their police with transmitters, then transmitters simply won't happen. It's a political problem which is much thornier than technical problems. I'm sure you could already apply that rubric today : If only government agency X would implement simple technology Y, everyone's life would be easier. In the real world, that fails to happen all the time. Self driving cars are probably just going to have to recognize hand signals. That's simply the reality.
- massysett 10y agoIt's not just a matter of equipping police. Police are not the only people who occasionally need to make gestures that need to be recognized by cars: think construction workers in a crowded city, parking lot attendants, or anyone at the scene of an accident. The car needs to be able to communicate with people outside of it, or it needs to have a human inside who can drive it.
- iak8god 10y agoBecause I don't want my car stopping when a panhandler/hitchhiker/etc is trying to wave me down, this is actually a much more complicated problem than simply recognizing gestures.
- mikeash 10y agoFortunately, recognizing hand gestures can be done.
- raverbashing 10y agoI remember reading that Google's car do recognize hand gestures.
- pmiller2 10y agoThat is really interesting if true. Do you have any idea where you read it? I am genuinely interested; this is not some backhanded way of saying "citation needed."
- raverbashing 10y agoI don't remember where I read it, but this is similar http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/google-self-driving-cars-cyclist/ http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/google-self-driving-cars-cycli...
- chillingeffect 10y agoA bit of web searching goes a long way: http://search.lycos.com/web/?q=google+car+recognize+hand+gestures http://search.lycos.com/web/?q=google+car+recognize+hand+ges... http://www.webcrawler.com/serp?q=google+cars+recognize+hand+gestures http://www.webcrawler.com/serp?q=google+cars+recognize+hand+... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Google%27s+car+do+recognize+hand+gestures https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Google%27s+car+do+recognize+hand+g... https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Google%27s%20car%20do%20recognize%20hand%20gestures https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Google%27s%20car...
- pmiller2 10y agoI don't think the transmitter option is viable until there's a critical mass of self-driving cars that all agree on the same communications protocol. And, as we all know, the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.