Uber admits its self-driving cars have trouble with bike lanes
03-31-17, 09:56 AM
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Not to all of them. All AV use a mix of different visual, and electromagnetic sensing to detect objects. LIDAR would not have been fooled by the truck silhouette. As I understand it, the manufacturer of the dominant LIDAR technology has hiked prices and some vehicle manufacturers have made the decision to forgo using it. Not after that accident. They all use LIDAR now, along with RADAR, SONAR and optical recognition and process all that sensor input with more raw computer power than was present in the entire country at the time of the Apollo Moon Program. If a semi-truck in an adjacent lane throws a tire at an AV... it will probably hit it! If a driver closing at 100mph in the oncoming lane suddenly crosses the center line for any reason: medical, mental or mechanical... there will be a collision. A bad one. Possibly fatal. AV are not immune from accidents, they are simply less likely to be a cause of accidents than human drivers. They do not drive impaired, fatigued, angry, medicated or distracted. Even if most human drivers mistrust them, their metrics speak for themselves. Some of you say they aren't ready yet. You wonder why they are allowed to be on the road. Exactly.
03-31-17, 10:08 AM
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They'll figure out white trucks soon enough. My point is that human drivers kill 35,000+/yr in the US alone. I suspect if all cars were converted to autonomous vehicles immediately there would be fewer deaths.
03-31-17, 10:38 AM
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There is virtually nothing 100% safe. I believe that asking for 100% safe is nonsense. Can self driving cars be safer than humans - I think so. Are they currently safer than human drivers? Good possibility. Are people willing to accept the risk? Remains to be seen.
03-31-17, 09:24 PM
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Here is one Florida guy that would have been safer if Uber were already driverless:
Warning: Coarse language.
Uber driver takes her cheating boyfriend?s mistress to his house, tweets the whole thing
Warning: Coarse language.
Uber driver takes her cheating boyfriend?s mistress to his house, tweets the whole thing
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Tesla 'autopilot' car hits Phoenix police motorcycle
Official: Tesla 'autopilot' car hits Phoenix police motorcycle
Official: Tesla 'autopilot' car hits Phoenix police motorcycle
It's USB was buzzed.
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Didn't I already state that the fault was some other dude's, not the car's.
What part of that hasn't been pointed out more than new helmet threads?
What part of that hasn't been pointed out more than new helmet threads?
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