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This also applies to "living streets": pedestrians are the primary users, but cars are allowed through at lower speeds (20 kph?). "Wait until everyone clears th
by Piskvorrr 7y ago
This also applies to "living streets": pedestrians are the primary users, but cars are allowed through at lower speeds (20 kph?). "Wait until everyone clears the path" means "forever", a typical livelock; the car needs to signal intent "I wish to move forward" while still yielding to pedestrians.
- perl4ever 7y agoYears ago I was trying to get through a huge crowd leaving a concert once, because I worked nights in a building on the same block, and while I was edging around the corner, a cop on foot thought I was being too aggressive and started banging on my window hard. I rolled it down and explained to him where I was going and why, but later my power window mechanism failed and it might have been related. I wonder how that should be handled with a hypothetical self-driving car?
- pas 7y agoThe AI takes instructions (orders? requests?) from the user. So if the cop asks the user to go back, the user should tell the car to go back, try a different route, etc. What happens if the user is drunk? Well, naturally, the cop tells the car that it's a cop and just pick a different route. And we shall see how well it will work. Probably it'll take a (few?) decade(s) before a self-driving car should think it can safely wade through a crowd instead of going back and finding a good place to wait for user input :)