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> This revolution should have started with mundane tasks, such as city street sweepers and perhaps garbage trucks. Honestly I would think that automating a slo
by chris11 8y ago
> This revolution should have started with mundane tasks, such as city street sweepers and perhaps garbage trucks.
Honestly I would think that automating a slow moving vehicle in the city would be a much harder engineering challenge. City driving can be a lot messier than driving on the freeway.
- 0x00000000 8y agoThe stakes are much lower though. A standard car drifting into the oncoming lane is basically death. If it can't handle city driving, the methods are probably too immature to put people's lives against.
- mrep 8y agoPretty much all interstates have barriers between the directions to prevent head on collisions.
- oldgradstudent 8y agoHitting a barrier in highway speeds is quite dangerous, even without hitting a car in the oncoming lane. As the recent Tesla crash showed, even on a divided highway there are plenty of opportunities to cause death and mayhem to the autonomous car and the surrounding vehicles.