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Flashing lights

by seizethecheese 3y ago

Flashing lights

hattmall 3y ago
The big one too is noticing everyone else slow down so you start trying to figure out why and look around more.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  Quite a while ago, I learned the best way to follow the ball or puck at a sporting match. You don't try to look for the little object itself, you just observe what all the relevant players are doing, where they're looking, where they're running. You figure it out really quick with them helping! Likewise, if I am waiting for a bus or something, I am really alert and on guard if I'm alone at the stop, because that bus will blow right by. Once there are a few other passengers around, I kick back and just watch them, because unless they're all impatient and pacing, their attitude and behavior will indicate when the bus is visibly arriving. SDCs that coldly and analytically examine the traffic around them will probably never get the human nuances that we can pick up from second-and-third-order clues. For example, if I'm paranoid about whether a car's going to turn into me in an intersection, I don't watch their turn signal or lateral motion, I watch their front tire, because that's the first indicator of a turn. Is that sort of thing baked into AI? If several people are stopped at an intersection, eye contact and gestures are often essential in negotiating a solution. AI? Same with pedestrians. Make eye contact, signal, work something out. I'll often stop on a corner and wave cars through rather than insist on my right-of-way. Of course the motorist also has to decide if that's safe to do, and sometimes you can fool a motorist into making an unsafe move just by signaling your permission...
reustle 3y ago
There are many instances in dense cities where the streets are too tight between buildings or busy with buses and cars to see down the other road at an intersection. Japan gets around this by having ambulances at least slow down and look both ways for each red light they are driving through. Doesn’t seem like a huge ask.
- bombcar 3y ago
  Emergency vehicles here do the same thing, but there’s a human element that may be hard to implement- the drivers assume that a vehicle has “seen” them if it stops. But an automatic car (and some drivered cars, too) will then start up again and drive into the side of the truck. But the biggest reason they slow down is that if two emergency vehicles are responding from different roads - they can hit each other - so much so there are multiple examples of it on YouTube. That’s why they switch sound approaching an intersection and slow down. It actually helps them if there are cars stopped at the cross streets, running interference.

Flashing lights

hattmall 3y ago

The big one too is noticing everyone else slow down so you start trying to figure out why and look around more.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Quite a while ago, I learned the best way to follow the ball or puck at a sporting match. You don't try to look for the little object itself, you just observe what all the relevant players are doing, where they're looking, where they're running. You figure it out really quick with them helping! Likewise, if I am waiting for a bus or something, I am really alert and on guard if I'm alone at the stop, because that bus will blow right by. Once there are a few other passengers around, I kick back and just watch them, because unless they're all impatient and pacing, their attitude and behavior will indicate when the bus is visibly arriving. SDCs that coldly and analytically examine the traffic around them will probably never get the human nuances that we can pick up from second-and-third-order clues. For example, if I'm paranoid about whether a car's going to turn into me in an intersection, I don't watch their turn signal or lateral motion, I watch their front tire, because that's the first indicator of a turn. Is that sort of thing baked into AI? If several people are stopped at an intersection, eye contact and gestures are often essential in negotiating a solution. AI? Same with pedestrians. Make eye contact, signal, work something out. I'll often stop on a corner and wave cars through rather than insist on my right-of-way. Of course the motorist also has to decide if that's safe to do, and sometimes you can fool a motorist into making an unsafe move just by signaling your permission...

reustle 3y ago

There are many instances in dense cities where the streets are too tight between buildings or busy with buses and cars to see down the other road at an intersection. Japan gets around this by having ambulances at least slow down and look both ways for each red light they are driving through. Doesn’t seem like a huge ask.

bombcar 3y ago
Emergency vehicles here do the same thing, but there’s a human element that may be hard to implement- the drivers assume that a vehicle has “seen” them if it stops. But an automatic car (and some drivered cars, too) will then start up again and drive into the side of the truck. But the biggest reason they slow down is that if two emergency vehicles are responding from different roads - they can hit each other - so much so there are multiple examples of it on YouTube. That’s why they switch sound approaching an intersection and slow down. It actually helps them if there are cars stopped at the cross streets, running interference.