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A lot of those sensors and cameras are less accurate during the night or in weather or with sun glare. I think one of the biggest issues is that people will no

A lot of those sensors and cameras are less accurate during the night or in weather or with sun glare. I think one of the biggest issues is that people will not accept self-driving cars that are as safe as human drivers. They want perfect driving. If someone hits a pedestrian that jumps out from between two cars unexpectedly, it might get written off as an accident and the insurance company may not even have to pay if it was clearly the pedestrians fault. If it was a "robot" car that hits someone, there is going to be a suit for $500M because "Google killed my son!!!!!!". This also leads to people trying to get non-lethally hit by robot cars just to get money. The "robot" car has a big trolley problem that isn't easily solvable.

leetcrew 7y ago
> The "robot" car has a big trolley problem that isn't easily solvable. I really think this is overblown. it's not hard to think of a solution to these issues because we already have it in traffic laws for humans. there are rules for accessing the right of way. if you follow the rules and make a good faith effort to account for people who don't, it is pretty hard to be found at fault for an accident, or even "cause" one to begin with. rear ending someone starts with too close of a following distance (or too high a speed) for the conditions. tbones and head on collisions can only happen when one or more people are moving without the right of way. pedestrian strikes on the street can only happen when the pedestrian or the driver is not observing the other's legal right of way. sideswipes are kinda ambiguous. it's possible for two vehicles to check that there is space in the middle lane simultaneously, then merge into each other. I don't think it's legally required, but I never merge into the middle lane when there is a car to the far left/right.
smileysteve 7y ago
> there is going to be a suit for $500M because "Google killed my son!!!!!!" I'm pretty sure that Google, Apple, Uber, Ford, Gm, Chrysler, and all of their supply chains could get lobby for the tort reform they need, especially witb much of our current "representation"
smileysteve 7y ago
> A lot of those sensors and cameras are less accurate during the night or in weather or with sun glare. But for relatively minimal cost, those sensors can easily 10x better than humans. Whether it's visible light or infrared, whether it's microphones outside the car, or networked effects to other vehicles or highway camera.

leetcrew 7y ago

> The "robot" car has a big trolley problem that isn't easily solvable. I really think this is overblown. it's not hard to think of a solution to these issues because we already have it in traffic laws for humans. there are rules for accessing the right of way. if you follow the rules and make a good faith effort to account for people who don't, it is pretty hard to be found at fault for an accident, or even "cause" one to begin with. rear ending someone starts with too close of a following distance (or too high a speed) for the conditions. tbones and head on collisions can only happen when one or more people are moving without the right of way. pedestrian strikes on the street can only happen when the pedestrian or the driver is not observing the other's legal right of way. sideswipes are kinda ambiguous. it's possible for two vehicles to check that there is space in the middle lane simultaneously, then merge into each other. I don't think it's legally required, but I never merge into the middle lane when there is a car to the far left/right.

smileysteve 7y ago

> there is going to be a suit for $500M because "Google killed my son!!!!!!" I'm pretty sure that Google, Apple, Uber, Ford, Gm, Chrysler, and all of their supply chains could get lobby for the tort reform they need, especially witb much of our current "representation"

smileysteve 7y ago

> A lot of those sensors and cameras are less accurate during the night or in weather or with sun glare. But for relatively minimal cost, those sensors can easily 10x better than humans. Whether it's visible light or infrared, whether it's microphones outside the car, or networked effects to other vehicles or highway camera.