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Lane following is a recipe for disaster. There are many places in the Bay Area where lanes are loosely defined as "how many cars will fit". And then there are t

• woofyman 12y ago
  At launch, the system will only function on a defined subset of Bay Area highways according to the article.
  • joosters 12y ago
    What happens when it reaches the end of the drivable highway? Will it wake me up and make me take the wheel? What if I don't? Does the car crash, emergency stop in the middle of the highway, or pull over gracefully?
    • Hytosys 12y ago
      Do you really think that any risk-based company would operate under any of those philosophies besides "pull over gracefully"?
      • darkmighty 12y ago
        There are many places you couldn't conceivably pull over. You can always get around this kinds of problems by stating the functionality clearly (and limiting it's actions to a well defined set), but exactly this diminishes greatly the functionality of the service. If you guarantee to people they can safely idle, they will idle and barely look at the road. If you don't, they will have to maintain attention at all times and all this will be is a "strain-reduction device" (i.e. not so useful). There's no good half-attention for humans.
        • swsieber 12y ago
          Then they make it so it pulls over gracefully before it leaves the zone in which they could.