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A self driving car wouldn't be in that situation in the first place.

• ehnto 4y ago
  That is a bad assumption to make. It absolutely has to be able to handle scenarios like that since it will need to be able to navigate low visibility corners and very unpredictable drivers. There are some videos on Youtube of a Tesla navigating tight hilly suburbs and it is surprisingly aggressive given the low visibility and low margins for error.
  • Nextgrid 4y ago
    I wonder if low-visibility areas can be mapped and self-driving cars could route around those areas to begin with.
    • steveBK123 4y ago
      Low visibility is contextual and temporal. You cannot map what an intersection looks like until you get there and it is too late. If you were to blacklist every intersection that could possibly be low visibility given weather, season, time of day and traffic conditions.. the car is going to be taking a lot of long routes around many many blacklisted intersections. Probably 50% of residential driveways could be classified this way, and yet the vast majority of people make it out of their driveway the vast majority of mornings.
  • steveBK123 4y ago
    Yup. There's a great video of someone driving in .. I want to say the smokey mountains, talking about how well FSD is doing in his Tesla. Casually driving, chatting with his wife in the passenger seat. Until it.. out of nowhere, crosses the double yellow lines around a turn and is barreling straight towards a cliff. 3 if not 4 of the cars wheels crossed the double yellow lines before the driver was able to intervene and basically save their lives. Had their been oncoming traffic, there may not have been a driver alive to post the video after. Another 1-2 seconds and they would have been been over the cliff.
• sschueller 4y ago
  Exactly, it would have crashed at the previous intersection already. /s