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Over-cautious can be as dangerous as reckless...I can just imagine a self-driving car slamming on brakes and coming to a stop in the middle of a busy road and causing a chain reaction accident, all because of a squirrel or a skunk ran in front of it... After all, self driving cars are supposed to be programmed to save lives of both human and animal, right ??
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Over-cautious can be as dangerous as reckless...I can just imagine a self-driving car slamming on brakes and coming to a stop in the middle of a busy road and causing a chain reaction accident, all because of a squirrel or a skunk ran in front of it... After all, self driving cars are supposed to be programmed to save lives of both human and animal, right ??
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Of course, I would too but only if there is no fast moving traffic close behind me. It's not worth risking a collision just to avoid a squirrel...Self-driving software is not like human brain and can't make split second emergency decisions like human brain can.
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Over-cautious can be as dangerous as reckless...I can just imagine a self-driving car slamming on brakes and coming to a stop in the middle of a busy road and causing a chain reaction accident, all because of a squirrel or a skunk ran in front of it... After all, self driving cars are supposed to be programmed to save lives of both human and animal, right ??
Or try throwing mud on a couple sensors. The next tests will continue to operate in very dry clients with good weather. Bad weather is not a small problem when it comes to the sensors. It won't be cheap to solve and not all the technology exists and especially at affordable prices.
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That's the problem right there, novel unexpected situations. You can't program software for every unexpected situation which occurs in real life...Human brain can be trained to deal with unexpected situations.
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I'm glad I'm not a bicyclist in one of these early test markets. Y'all practice on those California guys and get his figured out real good
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The squirrel issue is bogus. You are assuming it would slam on the brakes fior a squirrel, regardless of the situation, and would cause accidents, because you are trying to create a situation where the car would not perform well. Neither you nor I know whether or not the car would or would not react in Any particular way ... so making up fake scenarios to bolster a fake argument is pretty freaking dishonorable.
Look ... we simply do not know where AV tech will be in a year or three years. We can tell lies and invent arguments for ever ... what's the use? Just to fill pages with words?
What is the point of inventing fake scenarios to bolster fake arguments?
Look ... we simply do not know where AV tech will be in a year or three years. We can tell lies and invent arguments for ever ... what's the use? Just to fill pages with words?
What is the point of inventing fake scenarios to bolster fake arguments?
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Ya mean false arguments like describing any of the posters on this thread as being "oppossed to AV", or references to the voices from the graves of 40,000 dead motorists, or perhaps even the spectacularly bogus reference to an alleged 1/2 BILLION U.S. motorists killed in the last decade?
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You are right ... that should have been half a million. thanks for catching that.
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And of course let us highlight the real reason for driverless vehicles -- it allows the vehicle occupant(s) to use their mobile phones on the move without getting booked by police. Phone users will then be intent on how they can access the computer system of the driverless vehicles to have a bit of fun... or kill someone.
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Over-cautious can be as dangerous as reckless...I can just imagine a self-driving car slamming on brakes and coming to a stop in the middle of a busy road and causing a chain reaction accident, all because of a squirrel or a skunk ran in front of it... After all, self driving cars are supposed to be programmed to save lives of both human and animal, right ??
People think it's the fault of a car stopping in front of them or not getting out of the way that causes a crash. In reality, the crash is usually caused by inadequate following distance. Humans take risks that AVs don't where precautionary measures are concerned. When a self-driving vehicle is supposed to drive slower because of conditions or prospective dangers, it will unlike humans who will minimize the risks in their minds because they're biased in favor of speed.
As for squirrels running out in front of the vehicle, it is free to slam on the brakes because whatever vehicle, human-driven or self-driven, should have sufficient following distance to deal with sudden stops, tire blowouts, or any other emergency that could happen in front of them/it on the road.
If progress on self-driving vehicles stalls or slows below what is achievable, it will probably be taken over by the military. It is too critical to not be under control. They will need to iron out all the potential hacks and everything else that could either be used by terrorists to take control of the vehicles on public roads, or to use the vehicles for military operations in various ways. There will also be 'battlefield' vying for control over the OS, though they have probably already dealt with that for drone bombers and the like.
I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of AV applications on military bases, as well as there being many applications we don't see because they are kept secret.
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I have been enjoying sharing the road with self driving vehicles for over a year now. Consistently predictable, a pleasure to drive with.
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Maybe for you, but what about all those people trying to make some money by getting in a crash in a way that is the other guy's fault so they can collect insurance money? You're only thinking about it from the safety, predictability, and aggression-free driving perspective.
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'All those people...." Simple. I am not so paranoid.
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Maybe for you, but what about all those people trying to make some money by getting in a crash in a way that is the other guy's fault so they can collect insurance money? You're only thinking about it from the safety, predictability, and aggression-free driving perspective.
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Let me point out here, please----that we have the only Actual Testimony about Actual Experience from a cyclist who has been interacting with AVs.
We have a lot of hype, and hand-wringing and speculation ... and we have a cyclist who has a year's experience sharing the road with AVS.
Also, note one poster's complete inability to accept actual testimony which contravenes his fantasy, and his inability to use logic to defend his fantasy.
When one poster says he has been riding with AVs for A year and appreciates that they are predictable and thus safer to ride with than human-powered cars .... the response is,
WHAT?
If AVs are predictable and thus easier for people trying insurance scams ... what is the solution? Make them drive erratically so they will cause their own accidents to make it harder for scammers to sue---and easier for everyone else to sue?
Right. Because the last thing we want to achieve with self-driving cars is Safety. What we want is cars that are more dangerous than human-powered cars, less predictable, and which drive more aggressively.
The level to which some people sink to "win" an internet debate makes it clear some people Need to win on the 'net, because with thinking like that, there is no way they could ever succeed in real life.
The basic premise this poster advanced? "Self-driving cars suck because they are safer than human-powered cars."
Even for LCF that has got to be a new low.
We have a lot of hype, and hand-wringing and speculation ... and we have a cyclist who has a year's experience sharing the road with AVS.
Also, note one poster's complete inability to accept actual testimony which contravenes his fantasy, and his inability to use logic to defend his fantasy.
When one poster says he has been riding with AVs for A year and appreciates that they are predictable and thus safer to ride with than human-powered cars .... the response is,
If AVs are predictable and thus easier for people trying insurance scams ... what is the solution? Make them drive erratically so they will cause their own accidents to make it harder for scammers to sue---and easier for everyone else to sue?
The level to which some people sink to "win" an internet debate makes it clear some people Need to win on the 'net, because with thinking like that, there is no way they could ever succeed in real life.
The basic premise this poster advanced? "Self-driving cars suck because they are safer than human-powered cars."
Even for LCF that has got to be a new low.
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My point is if you're trying to scam money by getting into crashes, you wouldn't like self-driving cars.
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I have said all along the self-driving car as advertised is a fraud. They duped people into pouring millions and billions into a research that is decades away from any return for investment.
The fact is they did made great progress the past few years...but they fraudulantly use their past success to project the future success.
The past few years was all about "getting the easy low hanging fruit." Now all the easy hurdles have been overcome.
The hard part is still ahead. In order to make it work in a way to make a real difference to the world, they have to "get all the fruit off the tree." They still have no idea how to get the fruit higher up. The fruit near the top seems impossible.
What is really happening is that the advances in technology is being used to make driving easier and safer. This will not get us anywhere near the driverless utopia where it will be super safe for pedestrians and cyclists. Instead, this is about reducing the labor costs.
Like trucking companies welcome new technology that make truck driving easy. So they can hire less skilled drivers. The salary for drivers keep decrease while the advances in technology increase. In the future, you might have minimum wage workers driving trucks. That is the realistic goal.
The fact is they did made great progress the past few years...but they fraudulantly use their past success to project the future success.
The past few years was all about "getting the easy low hanging fruit." Now all the easy hurdles have been overcome.
The hard part is still ahead. In order to make it work in a way to make a real difference to the world, they have to "get all the fruit off the tree." They still have no idea how to get the fruit higher up. The fruit near the top seems impossible.
What is really happening is that the advances in technology is being used to make driving easier and safer. This will not get us anywhere near the driverless utopia where it will be super safe for pedestrians and cyclists. Instead, this is about reducing the labor costs.
Like trucking companies welcome new technology that make truck driving easy. So they can hire less skilled drivers. The salary for drivers keep decrease while the advances in technology increase. In the future, you might have minimum wage workers driving trucks. That is the realistic goal.
Imagine how much wear and tear, crashes, and other causes for new car purchases and parts sales there are. Self-driving cars wouldn't just reduce waste at that level, they would also make it unnecessary for many people who currently buy and insure cars to do so, which would result in more competition for sales. Until the bean-counters have a sure strategy figured out to make as much money of self-driving car society as they do off human-operated car society, they will keep investing in negative press against self-driving vehicles. It is not that different from the time when Oprah and others decried automated phone systems. That was, of course, before call center jobs could be outsourced as easy as any other job.
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I have said all along the self-driving car as advertised is a fraud. They duped people into pouring millions and billions into a research that is decades away from any return for investment.
The fact is they did made great progress the past few years...but they fraudulantly use their past success to project the future success.
The past few years was all about "getting the easy low hanging fruit." Now all the easy hurdles have been overcome.
The hard part is still ahead. In order to make it work in a way to make a real difference to the world, they have to "get all the fruit off the tree." They still have no idea how to get the fruit higher up. The fruit near the top seems impossible.
What is really happening is that the advances in technology is being used to make driving easier and safer. This will not get us anywhere near the driverless utopia where it will be super safe for pedestrians and cyclists. Instead, this is about reducing the labor costs.
Like trucking companies welcome new technology that make truck driving easy. So they can hire less skilled drivers. The salary for drivers keep decrease while the advances in technology increase. In the future, you might have minimum wage workers driving trucks. That is the realistic goal.
The fact is they did made great progress the past few years...but they fraudulantly use their past success to project the future success.
The past few years was all about "getting the easy low hanging fruit." Now all the easy hurdles have been overcome.
The hard part is still ahead. In order to make it work in a way to make a real difference to the world, they have to "get all the fruit off the tree." They still have no idea how to get the fruit higher up. The fruit near the top seems impossible.
What is really happening is that the advances in technology is being used to make driving easier and safer. This will not get us anywhere near the driverless utopia where it will be super safe for pedestrians and cyclists. Instead, this is about reducing the labor costs.
Like trucking companies welcome new technology that make truck driving easy. So they can hire less skilled drivers. The salary for drivers keep decrease while the advances in technology increase. In the future, you might have minimum wage workers driving trucks. That is the realistic goal.
I don't think the AV manufacturers Have to get All the fruit ... the tech isn't there yet.
All they have to do is get enough to justify the investment ... and none of us have any idea how that works. I know General Electric used to get more in tax credits than it owed in taxes because ti got "research and development" refunds. And ti was about the biggest company on the planet making billions a year.
In nay case ... taxis and trucks might be good scenarios ... taxis are already in operation, have been for a good while. And there, yes, the reason for AV is to get the cost of the driver out of the equation.
here's what i see: A bunch of people who really don't know much are telling the people who know a lot about how to do stuff we don't rally understand.
Unless some posters here are doing cutting edge work in AV programming or optics or computer-processing directly related to AV ... or unless some posters here are CFOs of major corporations investing in AVs .. we don't really know what is happening now, let along what is predicted. Whatever we know is gleaned from month-old news reports and year-old disclosures.
We have no idea why certain companies seem to be investing in AVs, or how much they have really invested, or how those investments might be structured ... maybe the investments arr written of against profits to lower the company's tax burden? We don't know.
To assume that all these multi-billion-dollar corporations have been duped .... but Joe Blow form Nowhere has it all figured out ... yeah, no. Waymo, or Alphabet, Intel, Ford, GM, the Euro carmakers ... they know more about what tech is available and what is in the pipeline than we do. because of different states' reporting requirements, they know a Lot more about how their vehicles are performing than we do.
But ... whatever. Sometimes discussion turns into debate, and when we are debating things we simply don't know we are wasting precious life.
Be well.
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It seems as if we may have drifted a bit from wil we see self driving cars soon to solving the problems of self driving cars once they get here. My skepticism comes from how lone it has taken to get EVs on the road from when we were promised. They may be here now and ready to proliferate as a choice for the average driver but it was a very long time coming and they still have a way to go. Just from a personal perspective I started looking into EVs way back in the early 70s when I first got into cycling as an alternative. 40 to 49 years doesn't seem like a long time but as mtb addict it is a long way from the low hanging fruit to the viable product in the case of transportation vehicles.
My take is they may have much of the ground work laid out but there seems to be some serious road blocks to getting self driving cars onto the the dealer lots and into the public's hands. I have been reading some statements by Musk about the self driving Teslas and he assured the investors that once the system is developed for safe self driving cars "all" models of Teslas have or will have the hardware necessary to be self driving. Once the programs are available that is. My question is will that decision be Musk's to make or will the government and lawyers make that decision?
I only use Tesla because I have only tried a Tesla with the range that would interest me in an EV today. With continuing infrastructure of course. I am not sure even Musk can make a prediction as to when self driving cars can replace manual driving cars. How long will it take for people to transition? Will everyone want to transition? There are still a number of people that refuse to drive a vehicle with an automatic. There are even some that seem to feel they don't want a car at all so self driving would be against their principals I guess.
As long as we are projecting, if they ever do come up with self driving cars or transportation pods and Lyft and Uber get their hands on them we could see the elimination of buses and Taxis even in the larger urban centers. Self driving vehicles can pic you up and drop you off point to point, your home to office and back home. They could take to to the airport or the store or a movie or out to dinner. Your child can have a self driving car take them to school or an after school program. On demand transportation would be a reality. Even in the suburbs people could have their own self driving car, or one for every member of the family like a cell phone. No I don't know if that is how it will work but it sounds nice to me. No sitting in the hot sun or cold rain waiting for a bus that comes when they want to send one and stops running when they want. As long as we are speculating.
My take is they may have much of the ground work laid out but there seems to be some serious road blocks to getting self driving cars onto the the dealer lots and into the public's hands. I have been reading some statements by Musk about the self driving Teslas and he assured the investors that once the system is developed for safe self driving cars "all" models of Teslas have or will have the hardware necessary to be self driving. Once the programs are available that is. My question is will that decision be Musk's to make or will the government and lawyers make that decision?
I only use Tesla because I have only tried a Tesla with the range that would interest me in an EV today. With continuing infrastructure of course. I am not sure even Musk can make a prediction as to when self driving cars can replace manual driving cars. How long will it take for people to transition? Will everyone want to transition? There are still a number of people that refuse to drive a vehicle with an automatic. There are even some that seem to feel they don't want a car at all so self driving would be against their principals I guess.
As long as we are projecting, if they ever do come up with self driving cars or transportation pods and Lyft and Uber get their hands on them we could see the elimination of buses and Taxis even in the larger urban centers. Self driving vehicles can pic you up and drop you off point to point, your home to office and back home. They could take to to the airport or the store or a movie or out to dinner. Your child can have a self driving car take them to school or an after school program. On demand transportation would be a reality. Even in the suburbs people could have their own self driving car, or one for every member of the family like a cell phone. No I don't know if that is how it will work but it sounds nice to me. No sitting in the hot sun or cold rain waiting for a bus that comes when they want to send one and stops running when they want. As long as we are speculating.