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Honking won't mean much if it comes from a robot. People won't care about that. License plates photos may help, but will the car send each of these to the poli

Honking won't mean much if it comes from a robot. People won't care about that. License plates photos may help, but will the car send each of these to the police automatically? Police can quickly get swamped then by these reports from self driving cars.

SquareWheel 8y ago
That seems like a solvable problem. If there's so many reports as to be swamping them, then just those with multiple violations would be reviewed.
- dmortin 8y ago
  Even taking a photo of the licensing plate is not trivial. If the robot car does not follow the violating car directly then its license plate may be at an angle where it can't be captured and if it can it may be distorted or angled, so a human is needed to view the footage (if a video is captured) to detect the actual license plate numbers, so automation can be a problem in practice.
  - SquareWheel 8y ago
    I feel like I'm repeating myself, but that too seems like a solvable problem. A car covered in sensors is likely a lot better at capturing and remember license plates than a human. Even keeping a memory of the last 60 seconds would be more than enough. Technology-wise, Google is already very good at OCR. They even have algorithms to specifically identify license plates (as seen in Google Maps where they're fuzzed out). This seems more a problem of policy (how would it be implemented?) than technology. And that too would evolve as necessity grew.
buboard 8y ago
> People won't care about that. The people around them will notice the honking as well. That creates social pressure against people who cause the honking. Police only needs to act on a few of these violations to create a new consensus behavior.
tim333 8y ago
Presumably the passengers could shout at the pedestrians if they like. Starship Technologies autonomous delivery bots you might think would have a problem of people trapping or stealing them but seem ok - they have trackers, cameras and a loudspeaker that people at the base can say 'oi put me down' though. http://elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk/interviews/item/street-smarts-how-ahti-heinla-s-starship-technologies-is-revolutionising-deliveries-with-robots http://elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk/interviews/item/street-sm...

SquareWheel 8y ago

That seems like a solvable problem. If there's so many reports as to be swamping them, then just those with multiple violations would be reviewed.

dmortin 8y ago
Even taking a photo of the licensing plate is not trivial. If the robot car does not follow the violating car directly then its license plate may be at an angle where it can't be captured and if it can it may be distorted or angled, so a human is needed to view the footage (if a video is captured) to detect the actual license plate numbers, so automation can be a problem in practice.
- SquareWheel 8y ago
  I feel like I'm repeating myself, but that too seems like a solvable problem. A car covered in sensors is likely a lot better at capturing and remember license plates than a human. Even keeping a memory of the last 60 seconds would be more than enough. Technology-wise, Google is already very good at OCR. They even have algorithms to specifically identify license plates (as seen in Google Maps where they're fuzzed out). This seems more a problem of policy (how would it be implemented?) than technology. And that too would evolve as necessity grew.

buboard 8y ago

> People won't care about that. The people around them will notice the honking as well. That creates social pressure against people who cause the honking. Police only needs to act on a few of these violations to create a new consensus behavior.

tim333 8y ago

Presumably the passengers could shout at the pedestrians if they like. Starship Technologies autonomous delivery bots you might think would have a problem of people trapping or stealing them but seem ok - they have trackers, cameras and a loudspeaker that people at the base can say 'oi put me down' though. http://elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk/interviews/item/street-smarts-how-ahti-heinla-s-starship-technologies-is-revolutionising-deliveries-with-robots http://elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk/interviews/item/street-sm...