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I'd love to see an analysis of the sorts of situations that the advanced systems can't handle. Driving in Mexico City last month I was appreciating how intensi
by glup 9y ago
I'd love to see an analysis of the sorts of situations that the advanced systems can't handle.
Driving in Mexico City last month I was appreciating how intensively interpersonal driving was: it seemed all drivers were constantly computing the risk appetite of all other drivers and acting accordingly; navigation, avoiding pedestrians, and following the law (to the extent possible) was the easy part. Maybe there's a way to avoid issues by providing coordination mechanisms, but I don't see how this would work as long as there are human-driven legacy cars. So will self-driving cars need theory of mind?
- maxxxxx 9y agoIn addition, humans tend to push the limits so even if we have autonomous cars that can handle current human driver behavior, the humans will adapt and put more pressure on the autonomous cars.
- Peeda 9y agoI'd argue for it to go the other way. Driving has a large cultural component -- people tend to drive how others around them do. Once autonomous cars hit some critical mass lots of human drivers are going to start mimicking how they drive which is probably a fair bit more conservative than most of these people in big cities.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI doubt it. Once you know that can cut off a self driving car without consequences it's very tempting to do that.
- sombremesa 9y agoWhat are the consequences of cutting off any other car today? There will still be people in those self driving cars, you know. Perhaps even people with a horn.
- maxxxxx 9y agoA self driving car will be for sure programmed in a way that it will avoid collisions at any cost. Another human driver on the other hand may just be an idiot and run into you.
- 21 9y agoOn the other hand a self driving car would have a crystal clear record of you driving unsafely, which could be immediately uploaded to police.
- username223 9y agoSelf-driving cars will work in Latin America the week after hell freezes over. I was recently in Ecuador, and many major city streets don't really have lanes -- there is just a swarm of cars cooperating to fill the available space, communicating via friendly honks. Then there's the Mexican convention for passing on a 2-lane road, where the passer pulls into the center, and traffic in both directions pulls off onto the shoulders. Robot cars may be able to drive around Phoenix soon, but the rest of the world is much more complicated.