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That sounds much harder than just stopping if a pedestrian is on a trajectory to enter your lane. I mean, obviously it would be better to deduce their intentio
by Symmetry 9y ago
That sounds much harder than just stopping if a pedestrian is on a trajectory to enter your lane. I mean, obviously it would be better to deduce their intentions and act according to that but I don't see any reason to say that that's necessary to have useful self driving cars.
- flyingfences 9y agoA car that defaults to braking without any deduction beyond detection will never make it through an intersection, let alone a whole trip, in some parts of the world.
- isostatic 9y agoNew York looks like a well regulated army training course compared with somewhere like Cairo. Never is a long time, but I don't see self driving cars coping well when traffic is coming the wrong way down the street, let alone when cars are driving along the sidewalk
- Symmetry 9y agoYes, Cairo will probably have self-driving cars over a decade after New York has them. But that doesn't mean self-driving cards aren't a commercially viable product before they work in Cairo. Very few technological innovations work better than the thing they replace in all circumstances initially. Back In The Day there were a lot of places a horse could go that a Model T couldn't but that didn't prevent cars from replacing horses.