Re:How Airline Pilots Lost the Basic Skills
by ghaff on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:20PM
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>proceeding very slowly and cautiously
I see not only Google, but a number of auto manufacturers, doing a lot of work. The Google testing, which is on a relatively small number of precisely mapped roads in good weather, has had a quite a few incidents that required a human to intervene (which won't be a realistic option once normal drivers turn over control). So from my perspective there's quite a bit of work going on but a lot more experience and work is needed before this is something that can be sold to consumers even for limited use cases.
(What we are already getting in high-end vehicles is assistive driving systems which should reduce accidents as they become more widespread--at least so long as they're not so effective as to increase issues associated with inattentiveness.)
I see not only Google, but a number of auto manufacturers, doing a lot of work. The Google testing, which is on a relatively small number of precisely mapped roads in good weather, has had a quite a few incidents that required a human to intervene (which won't be a realistic option once normal drivers turn over control). So from my perspective there's quite a bit of work going on but a lot more experience and work is needed before this is something that can be sold to consumers even for limited use cases.
(What we are already getting in high-end vehicles is assistive driving systems which should reduce accidents as they become more widespread--at least so long as they're not so effective as to increase issues associated with inattentiveness.)