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Every time I read about autonomous cars, I wonder if these points have ever been discussed: - Yielding to an emergency vehicle with sirens on. - Moving backwa
by pif 7y ago
Every time I read about autonomous cars, I wonder if these points have ever been discussed:
- Yielding to an emergency vehicle with sirens on.
- Moving backwards to a safe and large enough spot when the route is too narrow to fit self-driving car and oncoming huge lorry (and there is no line marking the limit between road and ravine).
- Upon instructions from authority, recognizing that the highway is closed due to an accident and, no matter what the driving code says, you actually have to make a U-turn on the highway and follow the crowd. Alternatively, just take that route (yes, the one with the large no-entry sign at the beginning) or that narrow path in the wood (yes, it exists, even if Google Maps isn't aware of it). At the bare minimum, park yourself off the road and let the others move on.
- Verifying whether a queue is forming behind you. Listening to the honkers, they may be right. When you are an obstacle to the most part of traffic, moving to the side and letting others pass from time to time is sincerely appreciated.
- AtlasBarfed 7y ago- a broadcast radio signal and microphones can detect sirens. That seems easy. - that's just flow analysis and basic perceptions of the environment. At a minimum, just tell the driver to take over. - highways will benefit from convergent infrastructure, and alerts like this will be part and parcel of highway driving automation. Flying does this already, basically. - sensors have 360 degree vision, and mesh networking between cars would help solve this, and automatically call towing/traffic control emergency vehicles to help with disabled cars I don't worry about any of those situations, those can be readily incorporated into certification and testing of the algorithms/systems.
- pif 7y ago> a broadcast radio signal... > ...just tell the driver... > ...alerts like this will be part and parcel of highway driving automation... > ...mesh networking between cars... You are not talking about autonomous cars.