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Right, but the promise of self-driving vehicles is about them being safer than humans. Humans are irrational and impulsive. Those actions disrupt the flow of tr
by spamizbad 5y ago
Right, but the promise of self-driving vehicles is about them being safer than humans. Humans are irrational and impulsive. Those actions disrupt the flow of traffic. The idea is that a self-driving vehicle can be safer than a human because it will do things like follow speed limits, always come to a complete stop, etc.
If self-driving vehicles are simply going to operate like facsimiles of human driving behavior their benefits are greatly diminished.
- bhauer 5y agoI think as long as autonomous drive systems are intermingling on regular roads with human drivers, they need to behave like human drivers. Human drivers will get angry with autonomous systems, especially during rush hour, if they adhere strictly to all laws such as full stops and speed limits. As others have pointed out, this may force us to contend with the laws first since it's clear local enforcement and laws are not aligned. When a majority of driving is autonomous, laws will likely evolve slightly. If/when all driving is autonomous, then things get really interesting: short following distance, peer-to-peer intersections without stops, etc.
- newaccount74 5y agoHumans get outraged all the time. If you drive exactly at the speed limit, they get angry, if you drive 5km/h over they get angry that you don't drive 10km/h over it, others get angry that you are tailgating them when they are driving exactly as fast as allowed and will brake check you --- I really think autonomous cars should just mechanically stick to the rules, then they are at least predictable.
- jliptzin 5y agoI don’t see anything wrong with copying human driving behavior except without any risk of drunk driving, driving and texting, falling asleep at the wheel, having a heart attack or stroke at the wheel etc. The average truck driver appears to be morbidly obese and gets little to no physical exercise, yet they drive enormous trucks that can do insane amounts of damage if they suffer a heart attack or stroke, personally I can’t wait for self driving vehicles to come online. EDIT: Not really sure why I am getting downvoted for this, you can search google and get maybe hundreds if not thousands of results about truck/bus drivers and heart attacks/strokes causing deadly crashes, but they get maybe 1% of the media attention of an FSD video rolling through a stop sign https://fox4kc.com/news/family-says-driver-of-tractor-trailer-had-heart-attack-before-cass-county-crash-that-killed-5/amp/ https://fox4kc.com/news/family-says-driver-of-tractor-traile...
- legerdemain 5y agoSeriously! I was going to make the same observation about truck drivers. It takes so little to exercise effectively. Why not pull over your truck for 30 minutes twice a day and do some basic calisthenics/bodyweight exercises? Who's going to notice?
- mensetmanusman 5y agoWould be an extreme form of exercise since it would be so dangerous on the Highway.
- jliptzin 5y agoCertainly would get your heart rate up, lol
- asdff 5y agoYour dispatcher who sees you are an hour behind schedule for stopping for no reason on the route and fires you
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- alanh 5y agoHow and why does stopping completely at a stop sign, with good visibility and no present pedestrians or cross traffic, increase safety? Will wait for an answer.
- kevincox 5y agoTo be fair most self-driving cars don't have the the blind spots that make rolling stops unsafe to pedestrians. So they can be much safer than human drivers while still doing rolling stops in this manor.