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Your car has approached the point of difficulty for incremental improvement, which is when human attention is needed, but only very rarely. The way for an incre
by mannykannot 8y ago
Your car has approached the point of difficulty for incremental improvement, which is when human attention is needed, but only very rarely. The way for an incremental approach to get beyond this is to have clearly-defined and well separated domains, one being where automation works safely without a human overseer, and the other being where advanced automation is not used. Furthermore, it must be obvious to drivers when they are one and when they are in the other; a distinction based on features of how the technology works does not cut it unless it also leads to an obvious distinction for the non-technical driver.
Limiting the use to highways appears to meet this criterion, but it does not yet do so, on account of problems, like stationary-obstacle detection and adverse weather, that are relevant to highway driving.
- ghaff 8y agoLimited access highway driving, a la an iteration or two on what GM is doing with Cadillac today, seems a pretty logical use case. Many people do a lot of it, it's boring, it's easy to get over-tired. It doesn't fire up the people who want robo-Ubers but it would have a lot of benefits, including safety, and seems like a much more boundable problem. I could actually imagine something like this being approved for consumer use decades before the more general case.