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Hard braking was discussed in a news article I have read some time ago about Uber specifically. Your attitude is not helpful. The list you linked does not inclu
by jadedhacker 8y ago
Hard braking was discussed in a news article I have read some time ago about Uber specifically. Your attitude is not helpful. The list you linked does not include Uber though it does include many others. Thanks for the link.
EDIT: I'm looking at Waymo's totals, whom I consider to be a safer player than Uber. The data totals come from your link on their page 2 Table 2: Disengagements by Cause. The time period spans Dec. 2016 to Nov. 2017.
Disengage for a recklessly behaving road user: 1
Disengage for hardware discrepancy: 13
Disengage for unwanted maneuver of the vehicle: 19
Disengage for a perception discrepancy: 16
Disengage for incorrect behavior prediction of other traffic participants: 5
Disengage for a software discrepancy: 9
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoNews articles on this topic tend to be less than worthless - an increasingly typical state of affairs. In this case the reason is quite direct: people are scared of revolutionary technology, and especially self driving vehicles -- and nothing gets clicks like fear mongering. Don't believe everything you read, let alone parrot it. You'll also notice the paragraph in Waymo's report, which is typical: "Note that, while we have used, where applicable, the causes mentioned in the DMV rule (weather conditions, road surface conditions, construction, emergencies, accidents or collisions), those causes were infrequent in our experience. Far more frequent were the additional causes we have labeled as unwanted maneuver, perception discrepancy, software discrepancy, hardware discrepancy, incorrect behavior prediction, or other road users behaving recklessly." In other words, they ended up disengaging because of "emergencies", which your imminent hard braking would apply as - exactly 0 times.