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Even if the incidence of car crashes was 1/10th of the current figure?
by AQuantized 7y ago
Even if the incidence of car crashes was 1/10th of the current figure?
- warmwaffles 7y agoThose 1/10th figures are in city areas. I'd like to see autopilot work out where I live in rural areas where deer, hogs, and other critters on the road are present and lines marking lanes are either faded or non existent. Genuinely I would love to see it work. I think it is cool, but I won't use it. I like driving and I like being in control of my destiny. Even if the risk is higher. That's what makes us human.
- jsight 7y agoI've grown up in rural areas, and I think that at some point, automated driving can be even better in those scenarios than humans can be. I have not seen any evidence of us being at that point today. Of course, the focus of these companies right now is on intra-urban transit, for reasons that make almost make sense from a revenue perspective.
- warmwaffles 7y agoThe one thing I want to see autopilot / assisted driving on is 18 wheelers. I've seen too many people get hit by trucks after crossing the median because the driver fell asleep.
- ulfw 7y agoat some point at some point At some point none of us have to use stupid inefficient cars anymore and would just beam from A to B
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoDealing with deer, hogs, cows, etc...is a much easier problem than obstructions in an urban area. Heck, even the roads are easier to deal with since where those lines are faded are only two lane anyways. But self driving cars aren’t even aimed at rural areas anyways. Rural areas simply don’t have the traffic or parking problems that make self driving cars incredibly desirable in urban areas.
- bdcravens 7y ago> Those 1/10th figures are in city areas. Where do most crashes overall occur? As in all automation, the edge cases won't always apply, and the option to disable should be available.