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How do you expect a driver to maintain a dead man's switch the entire time they are driving in manual mode? Or conversely, suppose the switch must be maintaine
by dsamarin 8y ago
How do you expect a driver to maintain a dead man's switch the entire time they are driving in manual mode?
Or conversely, suppose the switch must be maintained while the car is in autonomous mode, should the car pull over and stop on the side of the freeway? In terms of user experience I would expect the car to continue to the destination. The commenter discussing the use of sensors to detect the state of the driver and act accordingly makes more sense.
- akira2501 8y ago> In terms of user experience I would expect the car to continue to the destination. I ultimately hope this is a question answered by legal standards rather than by "user experience." If we're requiring drivers to be present even in autonomous cars, then they need to pull over and possibly take other alerting actions. > The commenter discussing the use of sensors to detect the state of the driver and act accordingly makes more sense. Are they asleep or merely in a diabetic coma? Can we tell? If we can't, should we even try this? Ultimately, I'm really concerned about this line: "Improvements in this case meant altering night-shift protocol to have two safety drivers instead of one." Humans may be bad drivers, I'd say a good look at the data would suggest otherwise; even so, the lesson for Waymo should be "Humans are also bad engineers."
- jackvalentine 8y ago> In terms of user experience I would expect the car to continue to the destination. For a production car, sure. But these are test drivers in test cars.