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"And the regulatory issues to be addressed before much of this could come true are, to put it mildly, forbidding." Yeah, how about the massive laundry list of
by Dirlewanger 13y ago
"And the regulatory issues to be addressed before much of this could come true are, to put it mildly, forbidding."
Yeah, how about the massive laundry list of liability issues that come around without a human controlling the wheel? What happens if the car hits a biker? A pedestrian? Another car with a driver? Another driver-less car? The driver causes an accident and then blames it on the car (surely logs of some sort will prevent this, but this all has to be established). So. Many. Scenarios. And bloggers always seem to avoid this topic because no one wants to deal with all this necessary clout must be sorted out before these things ever become an actual thing. To me, they have a looonnnggg way to go before I feel comfortable behind a 2 ton moving death machine and have no control whatsoever.
- elchief 13y agoRight, except they won't crash. Google has driven almost a million km without an accident. The car takes in a gigabyte of data a second to analyze. It knows the biker is behind it. It will slow down if the situation is risky and stop if something is imminent. The car has 360° cameras and LIDAR and records everything.
- danielweber 13y agoGoogle has driven almost a million km without an accident What's the latest on this? Last I heard they were only at 250,000 miles.
- civilian 13y agoAs of April 20th it was 700,000 km or ~430,000 miles http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21576224-one-day-every-car-may-come-invisible-chauffeur-look-no-hands http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21576224-one-da...
- Dirlewanger 13y agoCmon, you and I both know software is never perfect. You can spout all the facts you want about how safe it is but it would be ludicrous of both the government and Google not to take into account what happens when something goes haywire and the panoply of scenarios that could occur.
- mcguire 13y ago"Google has driven almost a million km without an accident." Current rates in the United States, for normal, run-of-the-mill automobiles, is about 1 fatality per 100,000,000 vehicle/miles[1] and 1 "crash" per 500,000 vehicle/miles[2]. 1. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx 2. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/safety-in-numbers-charting-traffic-safety-and-fatality-data http://www.caranddriver.com/features/safety-in-numbers-chart...
- warfangle 13y agoThat would be 160,934,400 vehicle/kilometers and 804,672 vehicle/kilometers respectfully. 'Cause comparing 1m kilometers to 100m miles is a silly thing to do when you can actually compare the same unit of measurement.
- mcguire 13y agoWhat, you can't do that conversion in your head? :)
- btbuildem 13y agoAs a cyclist, I would feel more safe knowing that cars are programmed to give me ample space on the road and pass with a safe speed differential.
- Zigurd 13y agoHey, YC, how about a collision avoidance transponder for bikes that makes a bike look like a car to collision avoidance systems?