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Building a vehicle that can handle a busy street, with cyclists, pedestrians, roadworks and emergency vehicles, is a tall order. You can try to simplify the pr
by panarky 8y ago
Building a vehicle that can handle a busy street, with cyclists, pedestrians, roadworks and emergency vehicles, is a tall order.
You can try to simplify the problem by limiting your routes to major highways and making the vehicle ultra-visible so other drivers give you a wide berth.
But at some point there will be construction, or a car wreck, or debris in the roadway. Eventually you'll need to exit the highway and drive on city streets.
Even if you manage to reduce the hard stuff to 1 mile out of 200, you still need to deal with it.
If you can't handle everything, you're not safe to be on the road.
- bunderbunder 8y agoI agree with you that even limiting the operational environment that these things work in doesn't reduce the number of situations it needs to be able to handle by that much. But I wouldn't be too quick to interpret a single sentence from a piece of short-form popular journalism as a precise specification of what their cars are and are not designed to handle.
- trocadero 8y ago>Even if you manage to reduce the hard stuff to 1 mile out of 200, you still need to deal with it. I think the minimum required to deal with it is to have the car pull over when it identifies a situation it can't handle. Even an onramp to exit car that pulls over if it sees construction will be extremely valuable to anyone routinely doing highway driving.