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Bikes put spanner in works of Dutch driverless car schemes
- chatmasta 8y agoAs an American living in the UK, I feel compelled to translate the title for my friends across the pond: "Bikes throw a wrench in the plans for Dutch driverless car schemes."
- kevin_b_er 8y agoSo are driverless cars are even more hostile to non-cars than ones with human drivers? Seems to me that we need less cars, more pedestrians, and more cyclists. What this article says to me is that autonomous cars are less safe for pedestrians and less safe for cyclists.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoWhy can't they spot cyclists? My 2015 Tesla S 70D with Autopilot 1.5 and only one monochrome camera correctly identifies cyclists most of the time; surely things have improved since then.
- royjacobs 8y agoI think "most of the time" is the key part here.
- Arzh 8y ago"But the varying sizes and agility of cyclists, with their sudden changes in speed and loose adherence to the rules of the road, present a major challenge to the existing technology" The 'loose adherence of the rules' is a pretty good reason I think.