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I’ve been curious what happens if a very red ball is suspended in front of rectangular cardboard about 7 ft up. No person would mistake it for a signal, but wha
by mint2 3y ago
I’ve been curious what happens if a very red ball is suspended in front of rectangular cardboard about 7 ft up. No person would mistake it for a signal, but what about these “self driving” cars?
- BurningFrog 3y agoI assume the cars have a database of existing traffic lights.
- smnrg 3y ago[dead]
- zardo 3y agoAnd run any new traffic lights put up if they aren't in the database yet?
- twelve40 3y agoso they probably re-map this stuff on a very regular basis, that's why it's kept to limited locations because of cost of this
- vinay427 3y agoI would hope there are special cases for handling construction/lane closure temporary traffic lights, for instance.
- plagiarist 3y agoI once saw a video of a Tesla interpreting a reddish moon as an infinite series of red lights.
- bombcar 3y agoI saw a video of the screen showing this massive array of stop signs and it was ignoring them all. Can’t remember what was causing it.
- twelve40 3y agoi suspect the reason why all these years these cars operate only in like half dozen locations is that these locations have been and probably continuously are being expensively mapped to death in greatest detail (to avoid accidents and bad PR). Otherwise they would have been testing in many more locations.
- dexwiz 3y agoDefinitely, all the self driving car companies have been driving around SF for years gathering data. I think Waymo even advertised it “got to know the neighborhood and peoples routines” as part of training.
- netsharc 3y agoPeople's routines, huh? Next thing you know you'll get Google ads for divorce lawyers because the car has noticed your wife's car parked not outside the yoga school, but next to this dude's car outside the Holiday Inn every 3rd Thursday of the month...
- dylan604 3y agoAs if people aren't already being served ads based on their Android device gathering the exact same data plus even more.
- moonchrome 3y agoIf you hire through the ad you get the surveillance data bundled. And people say targeted advertising doesn't create value.
- rurp 3y agoFor sure, I have seen this confirmed by a Waymo employee on HN. I think some people are vastly overestimating how close we are to widespread AVs, since they don't realize how narrow the successes are so far.
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- ajsnigrutin 3y agoI also wonder what would happen if someone had a t-shirt with a "20kmh" sign on the back and was walking down the sidewalk. ...especially since new cars are required to recognize speed signs and warn the drivers or even slow down in EU.
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- im3w1l 3y agoI don't think it's an exaggeration to say that deliberately messing with autonomous cars to cause an accident is an act of terrorism and should be prosecuted as such.
- chiggsy 3y agoPutting a cone on the hood? Terrorism? Damn, that slope sure got slippery.
- janalsncm 3y agoTerrorism would’ve been a lot easier if they could’ve tricked the planes into flying themselves into buildings. Terrorists have it so easy these days.
- im3w1l 3y agoYou are saying that it would be easier to cause chaos, but I'm not sure. I can imagine various ways of tampering with roads to cause disaster irrespective of the cars being self-driving.
- autoexec 3y agoThey've stopped because the moon looked like a traffic light. I don't think it'd be hard to trick them with just about anything. A red LED hung in front of the camera with tape and pipe cleaners might be enough.