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Good. It would be stupid not to, especially during the transition phase where driverless cars are the minority. YMMV depending upon local standards but here i

Good. It would be stupid not to, especially during the transition phase where driverless cars are the minority. YMMV depending upon local standards but here in San Diego, CA it is extremely common for the flow the traffic to be going 5-15 miles above posted speed limits and the cops do not care. Having a car going significantly slower than the flow of traffic is much worse than exceeding the speed limit. Also there are sometimes situations where very temporarily exceeding the limit is the best option (eg. you're at the speed limit and someone cuts into your lane toward the back of your car, potentially shunting you and you have no clearance on the other side, but do have room up front). Driverless cars with full 360 (or close to it) lidar would be ideal for dealing with this situation (as opposed to a human driver that is unlikely to even see the other car in his/her blindspot) but if they are capped at the speed limit their options for resolving the situation safely would be severely curtailed.

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josephschmoe 12y ago
Definitely. I wouldn't want my car driving in an unsafe manner just to follow local ordinances. I'd be very curious if I could sue those local governments for endangering me if my vehicle is forced to follow their rules and gets in an avoidable accident because of them. It would be an eminent domain defense, in the sense that government can't deny me of my property without a justifiable (public safety) reason for doing so. And forcing my computer to behave in a certain way that causes it to potentially harm itself is definitely a denial of property. I'm sure they'll just write me a ticket though - and if no one has gotten out of that by citing statistics on road safety, my autonomous car won't be any better off. Hopefully, this will all be resolved reasonably with a national law and a nice bug report interface on Google's part.
allochthon 12y ago
but here in San Diego, CA it is extremely common for the flow the traffic to be going 5-15 miles above posted speed limits Same here in the Bay area. It would be unsafe to drive no faster than the speed limits in some conditions of traffic. (Some drivers do this, and you have to change lanes on short notice to remain at the same speed as the rest of traffic.)

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josephschmoe 12y ago

Definitely. I wouldn't want my car driving in an unsafe manner just to follow local ordinances. I'd be very curious if I could sue those local governments for endangering me if my vehicle is forced to follow their rules and gets in an avoidable accident because of them. It would be an eminent domain defense, in the sense that government can't deny me of my property without a justifiable (public safety) reason for doing so. And forcing my computer to behave in a certain way that causes it to potentially harm itself is definitely a denial of property. I'm sure they'll just write me a ticket though - and if no one has gotten out of that by citing statistics on road safety, my autonomous car won't be any better off. Hopefully, this will all be resolved reasonably with a national law and a nice bug report interface on Google's part.

allochthon 12y ago

but here in San Diego, CA it is extremely common for the flow the traffic to be going 5-15 miles above posted speed limits Same here in the Bay area. It would be unsafe to drive no faster than the speed limits in some conditions of traffic. (Some drivers do this, and you have to change lanes on short notice to remain at the same speed as the rest of traffic.)