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For me the major story here is that progress is good enough that a car manufacturer is actually trying to tackle this problem: > Only California and Nevada hav
by RajT88 3y ago
For me the major story here is that progress is good enough that a car manufacturer is actually trying to tackle this problem:
> Only California and Nevada have approved the new light color. Those are the only states where Mercedes’ “conditionally autonomous” Drive Pilot technology is legal.
> Mercedes Drive Pilot can be used in traffic jams on selected major highways when vehicles are traveling at less than 40 miles an hour. Under those conditions, the driver can take their feet off the pedals, let go of the steering wheel and — this is where is it differs from any other driver assistance system — completely take their eyes off the road.
It's stuff like this that makes me excited that we really will have totally self-driving cars one day - in our lifetimes, and maybe not that far down the line.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoMercedes is making a huge gamble, IMO. If their autonomy fails to notice a hazard and causes a crash, they're setting themselves up to take ALL liability by telling drivers they don't need to pay attention. Compare that to Tesla which says the driver still needs to watch the road and be ready take over, which implies Tesla wants to push any liability for failures onto the driver. This distinction is what separates L2 and L3 autonomy. Yet...Tesla's AP is certainly capable of L3, especially if you were to limit its usage in the same way as Mercedes, but Tesla doesn't want liability.
- RajT88 3y agoTesla is way behind Waymo, apparently. L3 is coming. Especially if legislation is made which can mitigate the risk to the manufacturers.