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On one hand I totally agree with you in that it's your fault if you're tailgating and can't safely stop, regardless of what the vehicle in front of you is doing
by wovi 9y ago
On one hand I totally agree with you in that it's your fault if you're tailgating and can't safely stop, regardless of what the vehicle in front of you is doing.
However, I totally sympathize with him, living in Pittsburgh and driving in proximity to Uber's and a few other company's cars. There have been times when I've been following an autonomous car and it makes a turn onto a completely clear road, then suddenly slams on the brakes for no observable reason. Yes, I should be ready to handle this situation, but it's certainly not expected.
Knowing that Uber safety drivers intervene an average of about once a mile certainly makes me wary of these cars and not enjoy driving around them.
- foobarian 9y agoInteresting, wonder if it will become necessary to build automated car coordination networks past a certain density. Systems like these could get into funny feedback loops where one car stops dead, causing the next one to stop dead, take off, rinse and repeat. Or, my favorite part of living near Boston, the traffic circles; I can't wait for the day a convoy of automated cars deadlocks a rotary :-)
- aptwebapps 9y agoFeedback loops are how we get traffic jams right now. A well-built synchronized system should be less susceptible to them than the current, unsynchronized one.