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99% of situations are the "easy" part. It is the last 1% that will take a long time. Snow. Rain. Missing headlight. Etc.
by marze 9y ago
99% of situations are the "easy" part. It is the last 1% that will take a long time. Snow. Rain. Missing headlight. Etc.
- true_religion 9y agoCan't we just accept that the car won't drive itself in the snow or rain or with a missing headlight? I'd find that totally reasonable, and get back behind the wheel to take my own risks in a snowstorm (or ... you know... stay at home like the advisories always tell you to).
- marvin 9y agoI would absolutely not find it reasonable if my "self-driving" car won't drive itself in the rain or snow, given that in my climate, it is raining or snowing >270 out of every 360 days of the year. Such a product would still have a large market value since there are nice climates with dense populations in the world too, but not everyone lives in California.
- cmrdporcupine 9y agoWhat you said -- plus: the last thing you want is a car that 'self drives' until the conditions suddenly change at high speeds and the half-aware driver is forced to take over unprepared and unalert and convinced that his/her car is supposed to be driving for them.
- legolas2412 9y agoExactly, if we are forcing drivers to stay focused on the road with hands on the wheel. It's not "self driving", as in it's not level 5 autonomy
- true_religion 9y agoI actually live in Virginia. We get snow and rain just as much as any where else in the N.E. USA. However our yearly precipitation is ~132 days, where each of those isn't a straight 24 hours of rain or snowfall. I wouldn't find it terrible to buy a self-driving car that runs 2/3rds of the year without any problems, and I need to drive personally if and only if I must go out during heavy rain or snowfall instead of waiting 1 hour for the rain to stop. Right now, many times I just wait for the rain to stop before going out because there isn't anything pressing or time sensitive about needing groceries on a Tuesday.
- legolas2412 9y agoYeah, and you can easily handle driver negligence in the easy part with always-on driver assistance. Plus it's unacceptable to allow humans away from the steering wheel when they are needed 1% of the time. This is assuming that "self-driving cars" isn't just another name for driver assistance packages and is actually level 5 autonomy (which a few of my friends believe will be on the road this year with Tesla model 3)