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The car stopping if another car goes before it brings up another issue. If self driving cars start showing up on the road and are recognizable, you'd be able t
by dx87 7y ago
The car stopping if another car goes before it brings up another issue. If self driving cars start showing up on the road and are recognizable, you'd be able to "bully" the self driving cars since you know it'll always give right away. Imagine being stuck on an on-ramp behind a car that is programmed with infinite patience and extreme risk aversion; you could be sitting there quite a while.
- allannienhuis 7y agoI imagine if enough self-driving cars were on the road, that would be less of a problem, because more regular speeds & distances between cars would allow for more opportunities for merging. Perhaps even between-car negotiations of merging or 4 way stop type of behaviour. I think we're quite a ways away from that though - hopefully not as far away as the flying car thing :)
- kodablah 7y agoThat's not the real issue, that's just the initial domino. The real issue is how self-driving companies will combat that. They'll surely want to record film at all times and have a pipeline to law enforcement to curb suspected bullies. It's often the over-correcting solution that becomes the bigger problem. There are analogues in other human-robot interactions.
- bdamm 7y agoWaymo resolved this early on by encoding the human resolution into the action. Stopping as required by law, then moving forward slowly until the next action is more clear.
- solidasparagus 7y agoWaymo 'resolved' this by not driving in areas where people intentionally fuck with self-driving cars.
- gowld 7y agoImagine if cars were given the same authority to generate citations as redlight cameras and schoolbus cameras. They'd be cheap to free and financed by kickbacks from law enforcement.
- ghostbrainalpha 7y agoThe human driver can always take over if the car isn't being aggressive enough. Also the feeling of "how long" is too long to wait changes a lot when you are in more of a passenger mindset.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoIn a Tesla, yes. But the idea is for these algorithms to work without anyone in the driver seat.