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I find, for example, in heavy stop and go traffic my car drives safer on AutoPilot than I do manually. I can get tense or fed up with stupid drivers around me c

by zaroth 7y ago

I find, for example, in heavy stop and go traffic my car drives safer on AutoPilot than I do manually. I can get tense or fed up with stupid drivers around me causing me to drive less than ideally, while the AutoPilot just smoothly moves along, perfectly centered in the lane, never caring if the car ahead stays stopped too long, never getting flustered from being cut off. Switching on the AutoPilot also makes me suddenly care a lot less about optimizing for that 1/10th of a second here and there. When the car’s driving, I get there when I get there. I can just relax and the traffic matters that much less.

aidenn0 7y ago
I do not know how safe I am in heavy stop-and-go because I completely zone out. Traffic is pretty light where I live now, but in other areas, I've had the subjective sense of falling asleep, only to "wake up" several miles down the road an hour later. That's really scary.
- clairity 7y ago
  stop-and-go on a freeway during the day (e.g., rush hour) is probably the safest and easiest set of real conditions for self-driving. speed is low on average and the opportunities for surprise are limited, as you likely won't meet other objects unexpectedly going much faster or slower than you.
  - cardiffspaceman 7y ago
    What about motorcycles? My favorite expansion of the overloaded motorists' workload is when "firemen" holding "boots" get in traffic lanes during the morning commute in order to gather donations. Is that in the model?
    - clairity 7y ago
      that happens for you? panhandling happens here on the on-/off-ramps, but i don't see panhandlers on the actual freeway. in any case, i'd guess current algorithms can detect that fairly reliably in the noted conditions, since self-driving cars also trained on urban streets.
      - cardiffspaceman 7y ago
        The collection happens in the lanes where cars are waiting for a traffic light. The result is that traffic goes through more slowly and backs up through the off ramps and on the slow lane that feeds one of the off ramps.
m463 7y ago
> never getting flustered from being cut off. But sometimes it would be nice to have a 0 below the 1-7 following distance setting. (sort of like going to 11)

by zaroth 7y ago

aidenn0 7y ago

I do not know how safe I am in heavy stop-and-go because I completely zone out. Traffic is pretty light where I live now, but in other areas, I've had the subjective sense of falling asleep, only to "wake up" several miles down the road an hour later. That's really scary.

clairity 7y ago
stop-and-go on a freeway during the day (e.g., rush hour) is probably the safest and easiest set of real conditions for self-driving. speed is low on average and the opportunities for surprise are limited, as you likely won't meet other objects unexpectedly going much faster or slower than you.
- cardiffspaceman 7y ago
  What about motorcycles? My favorite expansion of the overloaded motorists' workload is when "firemen" holding "boots" get in traffic lanes during the morning commute in order to gather donations. Is that in the model?
  - clairity 7y ago
    that happens for you? panhandling happens here on the on-/off-ramps, but i don't see panhandlers on the actual freeway. in any case, i'd guess current algorithms can detect that fairly reliably in the noted conditions, since self-driving cars also trained on urban streets.
    - cardiffspaceman 7y ago
      The collection happens in the lanes where cars are waiting for a traffic light. The result is that traffic goes through more slowly and backs up through the off ramps and on the slow lane that feeds one of the off ramps.

m463 7y ago

> never getting flustered from being cut off. But sometimes it would be nice to have a 0 below the 1-7 following distance setting. (sort of like going to 11)