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You can relax the time requirement if the vehicle stops on unexpected conditions. If it finds roadworks and successfully identifies it as unknown, it stops and

• sokoloff 7y ago
  If it gets out of the way and stops, fine. If it just says “screw it, halting right here”, it’s going to quickly find itself the subject of public outrage and be banned until resolved I’d think. (I think figuring out a possibly creative way to "get out of the way" might be approximately as hard as the rest of the self-driving challenge.) Imagine every hundredth car during rush hour detour just stopping for no human driver valid reason. Imagine areas where you’ve driven where you can’t even keep a voice call connected, let alone the data rates needed for remote piloting assistance. Imagine Boston’s Big Dig and these not-quite-autonomous cars facing an unknown situation en masse inside a tunnel under water... I’m 2/3rds of Woz’s age and don’t expect level 5 in my or my kids’ lifetime. Level 5 is a very high hurdle.
• ClumsyPilot 7y ago
  Many of these are dynamic situations, like some cargo falling off a trailer, or a deer cumping in your path. Either you react right away, or you are dead. Operator is not going to help. May I remind you are are at a stage where Tesla cars drove into a trailer and into a concrete wall, a mistake no sober human would make.