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1. Commuters' start and end points are not on highways. The value of commuting is in arriving at your destination. 2. Attention. How does a car ensure that its
by tuatoru 5y ago
1. Commuters' start and end points are not on highways. The value of commuting is in arriving at your destination.
2. Attention. How does a car ensure that its driver re-engages when required? Imagine what would happen if thirty or fifty cars pull over because their drivers are busy finishing emails.
2A. If self-driving cars become common on a given highway, how do they cope with griefers? (Other drivers who manipulate the software into giving up, or worse.)
7. Having remote drivers is about as expensive as having an on-board driver.
9. Safety. Self driving software is not infallible, and there are other vehicles on the highway, and unusual situations can develop.
9A. Kinetic energy. Major accidents at highway speeds can be lethal.
10. Publicity. Accidents on highways can also be spectacular/photogenic.
11. Liability risk. Anything that can be blamed on the software, will be.
- tennien 5y agoMore fatalities happen off highways, where roads are in unusual condition and there are more edge cases. 1. Wouldn’t a 30min commute be 1/3 as worse there’s a 20-25min section you can disengage? 2. It can force reengagement via the same mechanism for L2 highway driving, but there is a period where one need not pay attention. There are also existing car lots on the sides of highways for maintenance, and they could be added and expanded. At worst, the shoulder provides space for hundreds of cars per km. 3. greifers are a problem for any self-driving system 7. The remote drivers need engage only in exceptional circumstances, as the driver would. 9-11. apply to existing geofences, but with far more added complication, including pedestrians and cyclists.