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> I'd expect self driving cars to have much better sensors and reaction times than we do That is never going to happen.
by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> I'd expect self driving cars to have much better sensors and reaction times than we do
That is never going to happen.
- psd1 3y agoWords like "good", "better" and "should" always carry freight that's often worth unpacking. Here, "better" really needs a definition. A CCD is better than human eyes inasmuch as it captures a field rather than a narrow focus, with fuzzy periphery, that must be pointed at an object to resolve it. I'm sure we could find metrics where a 360-degree lidar is better than human eyes. It's disingenuous to pretend that sensor quality is the whole story, of course. Human drivers have notoriously variable reflexes. I once rear-ended someone because I was inattentive. I assert that the current gen has better reflexes than some percentile of real-world meat-drivers, and I suspect that the percentile is higher than 90. Human reflexes simply aren't that quick without significant priming.