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> you are looking at an instance where an autonomous vehicle failed to make a reasonable decision that a human would right in this article. And remote assista
by mlyle 4y ago
> you are looking at an instance where an autonomous vehicle failed to make a reasonable decision that a human would right in this article.
And remote assistance/teleoperation was reacting at the same time, for the vehicle.
Humans will screw up similar cases: end up in the emergency vehicle's way and panic and do the wrong thing. In fact, I saw a fire truck impeded Wednesday because of some judgment mistakes by a human driver that an AV would be unlikely to make.
So, frequency of "doing the wrong thing", and severity (here, probably measured in seconds) are completely reasonable questions to ask-- even if the circumstances where each tends to mess up are different. I don't think it's reasonable to ask that the autonomous vehicle be superior than a typical human in every axis of performance, just overall superior.