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I've had a few harrowing driving experiences and fortunately, no serious crashes. The difficult driving experiences where just so rare that I would be surprised
by todd8 6y ago
I've had a few harrowing driving experiences and fortunately, no serious crashes. The difficult driving experiences where just so rare that I would be surprised if a self-driving vehicle would know what to do.
* I once had a car driving way above the speed limit approach me from the rear, it passed me by jumping the curb driving on grass and sidewalk and swerving back onto the street in front of me.
* Another time I was driving back to a rental house in the Aspen area and the snowstorm had gotten bad enough to completely cover and obscure the road on the hillside I was driving on. My wheels went off the road, fortunately on the side away from the drop off and I was driving slowly, but then I couldn't get back on the road without using enough power that I feared I would swerve off the road on down the hill. This required a bit of puzzle solving before I could safely get back on the road.
* I've had bad GPS data that kept me circling my destination without every getting me there.
I just think that such unusual situations are going to be difficult for autonomous cars to understand very soon.
- carapace 6y agoIf we set it up right[1] the cars share data/experience so that each one learns from the whole fleet. A novel situation will only be novel once, for one car, then all the rest will be able to handle similar future situations "by the book". [1] I don't think manufacturers of self-driving cars (and can we please call them "auto-autos"!?) should compete on safety, rather, I think it should be mandated legally that they have to share data on crashes with a view to preventing further crashes. Like the aviation industry, eh?