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As someone who lives in a region where snowfall and icy roads are common I know for a fact that traffic regularly flows at highway speeds in those conditions.
by DIVx0 5y ago
As someone who lives in a region where snowfall and icy roads are common I know for a fact that traffic regularly flows at highway speeds in those conditions.
Level 5 implies "all conditions" so it follows an autonomous system should be able to safely operate along side human drivers. If a level 5 system cant keep up it would become a major hazard to non autonomous vehicles.
- TillE 5y agoDriving the speed limit or higher on an icy road is wildly reckless, it would be insane to program a computer to do that, regardless of whether you could.
- natch 5y agoIf humans can do it safely, a self driving car should (in the future when they really arrive) also be able to do it safely. But, what you describe does not meet the basic criteria for doing it safely. Regularly flowing at highway speeds in those conditions does not imply doing it safely, as much as you and those drivers might like it to. We read about pileups from time to time and the consequences of these are not trivial.