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You seem overly pessimistic about autonomous driving software; it seems to me like Google's driving software could easily already be at a point where it might b
by cjbprime 12y ago
You seem overly pessimistic about autonomous driving software; it seems to me like Google's driving software could easily already be at a point where it might be able to consider the choice between hitting pedestrians crossing the street, or purposefully crashing the car.
- ghaff 12y agoAs a general approach, I can certainly see assistive driving algorithms making decisions about whether to veer off the road vs. possibly hitting something ahead, i.e. how do you prioritize staying in the lane vs. avoiding a known/likely collision. One implication is that you'd sort of like to know what "off the road" means in a given location.
- walshemj 12y agoAnd what happens if you have an out of date map and the car thinks its swerving into an empty lot - but its now a kids playground.
- brudgers 12y agoIt's my understanding that Google's self-driving car technology as shown to the public, cannott currently handle a crew repairing potholes without advance notice, or drive to an arbitrary location using a route that hasn't been pre-run to record navigational waypoints. In other words, the disclosed technologies can drive in areas for which extremely large amounts of data have been collected and only so long as conditions have not changed. If a new traffic light or stop sign is installed, the self-driving car is likely to miss it. There may be secret sauce in the lab, of course.