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Q: "What's the primary design objective of the next-gen chip?" Mumbled Answer: "Safety." ...doesn't that mean the current-gen chip... isn't as safe as you wa
by VikingCoder 7y ago
Q: "What's the primary design objective of the next-gen chip?"
Mumbled Answer: "Safety."
...doesn't that mean the current-gen chip... isn't as safe as you want?
- ryanlol 7y agoAre any cars ever as safe as you want?
- VikingCoder 7y agoSociety has decided how to judge whether I am safe to drive, and I have passed the tests. I worry that the laws on the books are insufficient to judge whether a computer is safe to drive. If Tesla already has plans to increase safety, I'd like to know how they judge it, where they think they are, where they'd like to improve, etc. As a voter.
- stevep98 7y agoI think there is a lot of scope for an autonomous vehicle to be safer than a human driver. Consider: 1) computer has faster reaction times. 2) 360-degree awareness 3) better awareness of vehicle performance. Imagine a scenario where you are at speed and get a tire blowout. The car can sense it instantly through tire pressure sensor, and counter the swerve appropriately - something that humans are very poorly prepared or practiced for. Alternatively, a driver in a neighboring lane makes an unsafe lane change into your lane. The car sees him, honks the horn, moves/brakes/accelerates to avoid the other car, before you've even seen whats happening.
- djtriptych 7y agoI don't see this line of reasoning. To me "safer than humans" or "in the 90th percentile among drivers" is a fair go to market line. Optimally safe should still be the goal. That is, no human could have provided alternative input to the computer that would have created a safer outcome.
- VikingCoder 7y agoI think you just agreed with me. Please reconsider what I've said and what you've said.
- zaroth 7y agoNo, it just means the next-gen design had safety as a primary design objective. Secondary objectives could be additional modes of self driving like traffic light detection and managing intersections. Volvo leadership states the exact same thing about their car designs. The primary motivation “in everything they do” is safety. The statement can be made entirely distinct from the current safety level.