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The whole point is that uber is developing their own gear. Dunno about you, but for me giving two self-driving systems control over the car at same time seems l
by pdpi 9y ago
The whole point is that uber is developing their own gear. Dunno about you, but for me giving two self-driving systems control over the car at same time seems like a recipe for disaster. Of course they turned off the other systems.
- nmeofthestate 9y agoThey certainly averted disaster, didn't they.
- knuththetruth 9y agoAll kinds of technology that’s less half-baked than Uber’s self-driving cars has redundant, decoupled safety systems. Might be better for Uber’s data collection to turn this off, but you really can’t argue it was safer. I don’t think we should be killing people because that works better for their business needs.
- c22 9y agoMobileye isn't a "self-driving" system, it's a collision prevention/mitigation system, like airbags or ABS. Leaving it on while a human controls the car hasn't been seen as a disaster.
- bladers 9y agofirst of all Mobileye does have a self driving system (their EyeQ4 chips is for Level 3-4 self driving). However Amon was referring to their EyeQ3 chip from 2014 which is installed in 24 million cars and have billions of miles
- dogma1138 9y agoTesla’s autopilot runs on MobilEye only AP 2 runs on NVIDIA.
- lowbloodsugar 9y agoThis is a system designed to respond when a human driver has failed to identify the threat, so we've already established that having two systems (one dumb system and one intelligent system) doesn't compromise safety.
- mrguyorama 9y agoWhich one, human or automated, is the "dumb" system?
- jyrkesh 9y agoAbsolutely not. Having two sets of sensors on the car is a good thing because it provides redundancy. If one set of sensors fails to detect say, a person in the middle of the road, the other one will step in and say "hey, brain, there's a person in the middle of the road". If Uber intentionally disabled the second set of sensors, they were acting recklessly, and they're a danger to the development of the self-driving car industry. This one incident may have set us back years.
- vkou 9y ago> Dunno about you, but for me giving two self-driving systems control over the car at same time seems like a recipe for disaster. When I drive a car, I am a 'self-driving system'. It is intended that I am used in conjunction with the car's existing driving-assist functionality.
- darkmarmot 9y agoAircraft use multiple flight systems developed by separate teams in separate languages/technologies -- and then compare their answers to get redundant consensus.