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The "beacon/alerting system" are the signs, and the man in a vest. If the car can't respond to those, then the words "full self driving" should never be used t

• ghaff 5y ago
  On a highway, you often don't have a man in a vest and the signs I see are often vague alerts about construction and lane shifts ahead that may or may not be actually happening at the moment. But I don't really disagree. Some mechanism (perhaps a redundant mechanism) when approaching a possible construction area to give a human a minute or so to take over.
• 8note 5y ago
  I'd see self driving as not needing a person at the wheel. I don't care if there are changes to the road, it's being driven without a person nat the wheel
  • ghaff 5y ago
    Autonomous driving systems do not need to be door-to-door. They also can't require taking over control on a moment's notice. But, systems that can fully autonomous for long stretches of highway driving seem useful. They just don't address use cases where people aren't able to drive at all. Which are interesting to a lot of people but they may just not happen for a long time. There are people who just want cheaper Ubers but there are others who are fine with handing off long boring sections of highway driving.