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Isn't this where a humanoid robot (i.e. some sort of Boston Dynamics type robot) doing random, erratic stuff might be handy? Maybe put a bunch of them in a tes

by jpao79 9y ago

Isn't this where a humanoid robot (i.e. some sort of Boston Dynamics type robot) doing random, erratic stuff might be handy? Maybe put a bunch of them in a test track area like this one in Concord, California. Gomentum is Silicon Valley's secretive test track for self-driving cars: https://www.cnet.com/videos/inside-silicon-valleys-secretive-test-track-for-self-driving-cars/ https://www.cnet.com/videos/inside-silicon-valleys-secretive...

ehsankia 9y ago
Waymo has their own too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-2XuKdbMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-2XuKdbMI I do agree that there needs to be a minimum requirement you should reach before being allowed to drive on public roads. Companies should not be alpha testing with human lives.
- jpao79 9y ago
  Cool - was not aware of that one. At some point during the qualification process, multiple self driving competing car vendors should be put in the same test bed at the same time for a month of continuous 24/7 driving. The test bed should have the 'average moving car density' equivalent to that of an SF/NYC neighborhood. Let the robots test themselves and risk their 'lives' first before putting real human lives in the mix!
sgillen 9y ago
I think there are much cheaper and more reliable ways to mimic pedestrians right now than full on walking robots... But yeah some sort of random pedestrian/animal/debris in the road testing seems like it will be crucial to prevent this sort of accident from happening again.
- jumpmanjr 9y ago
  The self driving car executive’s children. These guys are willing to risk my family to make a lot of money. We should make it mandatory that their kids play an extravagant game of frogger, instructed (when/where to cross) by college kids who get paid $$$ if one of the kids gets hit. Televise it. Let’s see how confident they really are in their technology.
  - JetSpiegel 9y ago
    A modest proposal.

by jpao79 9y ago

ehsankia 9y ago

Waymo has their own too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-2XuKdbMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-2XuKdbMI I do agree that there needs to be a minimum requirement you should reach before being allowed to drive on public roads. Companies should not be alpha testing with human lives.

jpao79 9y ago
Cool - was not aware of that one. At some point during the qualification process, multiple self driving competing car vendors should be put in the same test bed at the same time for a month of continuous 24/7 driving. The test bed should have the 'average moving car density' equivalent to that of an SF/NYC neighborhood. Let the robots test themselves and risk their 'lives' first before putting real human lives in the mix!

sgillen 9y ago

I think there are much cheaper and more reliable ways to mimic pedestrians right now than full on walking robots... But yeah some sort of random pedestrian/animal/debris in the road testing seems like it will be crucial to prevent this sort of accident from happening again.

jumpmanjr 9y ago
The self driving car executive’s children. These guys are willing to risk my family to make a lot of money. We should make it mandatory that their kids play an extravagant game of frogger, instructed (when/where to cross) by college kids who get paid $$$ if one of the kids gets hit. Televise it. Let’s see how confident they really are in their technology.
- JetSpiegel 9y ago
  A modest proposal.