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Agreed, but I would imagine a meaningful population of people would do the same thing in that situation
by aaronm14 9y ago
Agreed, but I would imagine a meaningful population of people would do the same thing in that situation
- rco8786 9y agoMaybe. But the promise of autonomous cars is that they can be safer than human drivers.
- dwighttk 9y ago“That situation” was loss of contact with a control center. What is the equivalent for people?
- dronescanfly 9y agofainting. I do believe braking and stopping is better than swerving and crashing...
- dwighttk 9y agono, there isn't a person constantly driving on the other end of the connection
- CDRdude 9y agoPerhaps dense fog, or whiteout blizzard conditions? I’m making the assumption that the server parses the data from the truck to determine what it is seeing.
- winthrowe 9y agoNo, those are sensor failures, not external communications failures. The human equivalent would be being unable to call someone for directions.
- Maybestring 9y agoThe article says it's a person making decisions with acceptable delays of 15 seconds.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoSure, some small % of the populations will probably do that. Some small % of the population will drive drunk. Neither are acceptable ways to handle the vast majority of situations one encounters. The situation in the article. is roughly the same as being lost (or going somewhere in a way GPS won't work) and taking directions over the phone. If the line goes dead nobody (who's behavior we want self driving vehicles to emulate) just stops in the middle of the road.