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Ask HN: Autonomous cars and breakdowns/accidents/vandalism?
What considerations have companies been making once we have autonomous taxis/ubers/lyft where its only the passenger and the vehicle - where If the vehicle gets a flat - gets into an accident, or if the vehicle has no passengers and it gets vandalized?
What if the scenario is that the passengers inside take off their seatbelt? Or are being unruly? Or vomit?
There just seems to be wreck/damage scenarios that will be dealt with - but what infra is being setup along side with these rollouts to handle such situations?
Are/have companies such as Waymo already done dry-runs with their vehicles to test how they will handle these?
I believe that every model-year car currently has to go under crash-tests, and it would seem that many different crash-scenario tests would need to be tested by autonomous cars?
It would be interesting to hear about how they have already been addressing such...
- tsjq 5y agofor some of the scenarios listed: a lot of cameras shall be the easy solution. for wreck, flat, accident, etc : shall be outsourced to some 3rd party 'recovery operator'
- samstave 5y agoSo in the "vandalism" scenario with "lots of cameras" -- this translates to easily making every single autonomous/'connected' vehicle into a roving surveillance engine - wait until the first subpoenas come in for camera data from "all teslas in this area at this time who saw a man in a red hoodie running down 5th avenue" --- Autonomous/connected vehicles will be used in this way in the next decade I am sure.
- tsjq 5y agogoing by Amazon cameras approach, no subpeona required. "we will partner with the police". all cameras will (pro)actively feed videos and data (number plate + location details, speed, etc details) to police computers. more parking tickets, more speeding tickets, more traffic violation tickets, more jaywalking tickets. More revenue to the cops. we will get a cut from that revenue stream for the "partnership in fighting crime". it is a win-win strategy. multidimensional synergistic relationship among cops, AI, tech, cars, cameras. we will find the right terms to make this palatable to "those screeching minorities"
- samstave 5y agoGee... I wonder why they got that GovCloud Contract...