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Aren't they supposed to respond to gestures? What do they do if someone is directing traffic? And I guess the question if they do respond to traffic directing
by cma 4y ago
Aren't they supposed to respond to gestures? What do they do if someone is directing traffic? And I guess the question if they do respond to traffic directing gestures: how do they avoid obvious pranks from drunk people?
- __s 4y agoThrow on a reflective vest & you'll have no problem pranking human drivers with your traffic signals
- LeifCarrotson 4y agoA surprising number of humans have no problem with doing things to faceless computers and public or corporate infrastructure that they would never do to another human being with whom they were making eye contact. Few are willing to don the reflective vest and ruin someone's day by lying to their face and directing them down a bad detour, but I have no problem believing that a lot of people would laugh at a stupid self-driving car wasting its time and energy following their hand signals.
- cj 4y agoIsn't the idea that there would be humans in the self-driving car? At least 90% of the time, I would hope.
- vorpalhex 4y agoBut a self driving car SHOULD follow anyone directing traffic. There are valid reasons for <random citizen> to be directing traffic, like losing their load on the highway or helping traffic flow around a stopped vehicle.
- kzrdude 4y agoWould you step in front of a self-driving car to make it emergency brake? I think a lot of people would if they could. It's another instance of what you mentioned - teenage gangs bullying and playing with lonely empty self-driving cars.
- arp242 4y agoI'd be more concerned about mistaking regular gestures from instruction gestures. I might be waving at someone, either to say "hello" or to signal "you go ahead". All of this is very context-sensitive and subtle.
- jtagen 4y agoI doubt it. That's a really hard problem. Ignoring the machine vision component, if someone on the side of the road waves at their friend, should cars going by stop? Since there's no way to take control of these vehicles, I imagine they fall back to a service center with remote drivers when they come across the unexpected. Anything involving flashy lights should fall into this category.
- cma 4y agoWaymo supposedly had that as a feature: https://www.pcmag.com/news/waymo-car-ai-obeys-traffic-cop-hand-signals https://www.pcmag.com/news/waymo-car-ai-obeys-traffic-cop-ha...