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This standstill is bad, but it seems perfectly safe.

• bee_rider 4y ago
  Stopping in the middle of the road might be dangerous depending on the situation. If there's something weird about the location where they are stuck -- maybe somebody is jamming GPS or whatever -- then they should at least be able to pull over using local sensors, right? On the other hand, if there's some effect that is tripping up their sensors -- maybe some odd geometry that, for whatever bizarre reason, looks like a wall to them -- this pretty embarassing, but probably an inevitable growing pain for this technology.
• jjulius 4y ago
  I suppose I could've clarified, I'm not necessarily looking at it from the perspective of the safety of people in the vehicles. Right now it's just a small fleet of driverless taxis. Doesn't this demonstrate the potential for it to be, say, every single Honda in the city? Why even limit it to a city? A single manufacturer's critical infrastructure has some kind of fault (malice, shit code, hardware failure - dealer's choice!) and suddenly Fords stop running nationwide, or internationally. Then I start thinking of the impact to emergency vehicles caused by a cavalcade of stopped cars, and other similar issues. Again, I need to point out that I'm not trying to be sensationalist or hyperbolic. I'm ignorant here and am genuinely curious how viable these types of scenarios could be. It's clear that it can happen, I'm just curious to what extent.
  • BurningFrog 4y ago
    OK, those are actually interesting thoughts on new dangers introduced by self driving cars. I hadn't really thought about new single points of failure vulnerabilities as an aspect of this before. I'm still a big SDC fan, the pros are so massively bigger than the cons, but you've given me a new con to be aware of.