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A one-way street is also a drivable flat surface. As is a road with no lane markings. Can you guess why blindly driving down each of these will be dangerous?
by dmitriid 6y ago
A one-way street is also a drivable flat surface. As is a road with no lane markings.
Can you guess why blindly driving down each of these will be dangerous?
- toxik 6y agoRight, but can you guess why stopping in the middle of traffic for a fake stop sign is bad? Walk before you run is the essence of the argument here.
- dmitriid 6y agoAn automatic car which can only understand flat surfaces as drivable is not even walking. It's standing still, and is significantly more dangerous than a car slowing down and stopping in the middle of traffic. Realising that a flat surface is drivable is probably 1% of 1% of what an autonomous car does on a road. Same goes for humans, I'd say.
- hashtagmarkup 6y ago> Walk before you run is the essence of the argument here. Walking on the highway because you got spooked is the essence of the reason why you're dead.
- jvanderbot 6y agoYou don't need only flat surface detection, but it should be the highest priority safety check. And it should be the primary check. We shouldn't turn onto one-way streets, of course! Just like we shouldn't swerve off streets when we detect something that can be spoofed ... such as the false positives shown in the article and the false negatives given by other Tesla crashes. You can actually correct those instances by using reliable ranging devices with dense enough sampling to ensure flat surfaces without intermediate obstacles. To say that there are no other factors at play is foolish, of course, but it's also foolish to say that somehow we shouldn't be doing this.