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I agree with this. I'm in India, and there are so many times an hour that driving here makes me wonder what autonomous cars is all about. For example, that gu

I agree with this. I'm in India, and there are so many times an hour that driving here makes me wonder what autonomous cars is all about. For example, that guy driving on a two wheeler on the wrong side of the road, with 4 kids somehow balanced on the rear seat? How will an autonomous car parse that, or how would it parse a road where someone decides to take an illegal U-turn just because they can? Even today, I saw something that surprised me, despite having see just about everything. A bus playing chicken with another bus, so that it could overtake from the wrong side and barrel through an intersection. While I fully understand, that a car will be able to respond through a shared data base of reactions, its still a situation which requires far more of a car than what is being promised right now. I think the promise of a fully automated city transportation grid is actually what is being discussed. When all traffic obeys the same rules, the cost for automation and the expected degrees of freedom get drastically simplified.

monk_e_boy 12y ago
If you as a driver knew that an auto-bus was the same as a tram, it would start and stop automatically, follow a path. Make some decisions. It would be your job to not act crazy around it. If someone plays chicken with it, it'd report you to the police along with a video of you. Stop, wait for you to get out of the way. Then carry on. I fail to see the problems here? "that guy driving on a two wheeler on the wrong side of the road, with 4 kids somehow balanced on the rear seat" ... what's to parse? A moving object, try to avoid. Stop to avoid danger.
- nojvek 12y ago
  Or india will adapt to the autonomous vehicles and drive like sane humans. Its the same in many 3rd world countries. In montreal, trains user rubber wheels. It totally makes sense to have auto-bus lanes and auto-highway lanes where every car on the lane has to be in automatic advanced cruise control mode.

monk_e_boy 12y ago

If you as a driver knew that an auto-bus was the same as a tram, it would start and stop automatically, follow a path. Make some decisions. It would be your job to not act crazy around it. If someone plays chicken with it, it'd report you to the police along with a video of you. Stop, wait for you to get out of the way. Then carry on. I fail to see the problems here? "that guy driving on a two wheeler on the wrong side of the road, with 4 kids somehow balanced on the rear seat" ... what's to parse? A moving object, try to avoid. Stop to avoid danger.

nojvek 12y ago
Or india will adapt to the autonomous vehicles and drive like sane humans. Its the same in many 3rd world countries. In montreal, trains user rubber wheels. It totally makes sense to have auto-bus lanes and auto-highway lanes where every car on the lane has to be in automatic advanced cruise control mode.