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Their job is definitely not to sit around and do nothing. Self-driving cars regularly disengage from autonomy (e.g. emergency vehicle, construction zone, errati
by derwiki 6y ago
Their job is definitely not to sit around and do nothing. Self-driving cars regularly disengage from autonomy (e.g. emergency vehicle, construction zone, erratic bicyclist) and the safety driver needs to be ready at all times. Safety drivers also undergo extensive training around this.
- shajznnckfke 6y agoI believe the normal behavior of self-driving cars in these situations is for the car to brake to avoid hitting the obstacle, so the safety driver has ample time to take over and navigate the situation. Didn’t Uber disable the auto-braking because it was oversensitive, choosing not to pause road tests until that issue was fixed?
- sokoloff 6y agoUber disabled the OEM (Volvo) auto-braking but not the Uber braking algorithms. IMO, that’s largely a red herring as they could have equally well chosen to base their platform on a car that didn’t originally have a factory auto-braking system.