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How will people react? I think it's too early. + Jealous cap drivers, truck drivers, neighbors can easily put some chewing gum or paint on one or a few sensors
by MrQuincle 9y ago
How will people react? I think it's too early.
+ Jealous cap drivers, truck drivers, neighbors can easily put some chewing gum or paint on one or a few sensors. The system will be too brittle to cope with that, so all the time your/the sweet self-driving car doesn't even want to start.
+ Joyriding and pranks. Put your silly little brother or the dog who you've to babysit in the car. Bye bye!
+ Criminality. Just put your drugs on board or a corpse. Or do the companies that own these cars use them as remote cameras all the time?
+ Insurance. Just set up a situation perhaps with multiple cars where the self-driving car slams in your insured car. Use some doll etc.
+ Destruction. Do the same to cause the car falling into the river or crashing into something you dislike.
+ Vandalism. Graffiti etc. will be recognized much later than with a human driver.
+ Theft of sensors or other car parts can be orchestrated on a location the car first drives to.
- CreepGin 9y agoAll of these can apply to existing public transportation or car rentals. In Waymo's case, they can solve or alleviate these problems with live cameras and strict passenger screening process.
- tdb7893 9y agoMost of these things with self driving cars already apply to normal cars. Also with self driving cars having tons if sensors and Internet connectivity you should have a good scan of whoever messes with one and quick police response if anything goes wrong. For stuff like bogus insurance claims they could just add a few internal sensors in the car or something to make sure a real person is in there. None of these problems really seem all that insurmountable
- MrQuincle 9y agoTo argue that the legal context is exactly the same for self-driving cars as for normal cars seems unjustified. I'm not arguing that it is insurmountable. I'm just saying that it's too early. Most of these things have not been worked out, which seems unnecessary.