Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by mc32 on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:13PM
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People forget planes, the kinds with sophisticated autopilot, don't come out with a new model revision every two to three years. Their cycles are very long, decades long.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by icebraining on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:38PM
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Autolanding doesn't have the empty space, yet the first autolanding of a commercial flight with passengers aboard was done in '65.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by jerf on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:52PM
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Errr... yes it does. A runway is empty space. There are no other planes on it, it's a straight, well-maintained stretch of pavement, kept clear of ice and snow, with clear markings. Those are conditions so easy that non-self-driving cars can manage to navigate them for non-trivial periods of time without hitting anything! The Mythbusters have had a couple of cars go entirely out of control a couple times under those circumstances and the damage was a fence, once, IIRC.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by icebraining on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:58PM
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There's more to landing than taxiing on the runway, like approaching the ground at a minimum of 250 km/h while getting hit by winds, often with very little visibility.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by jerf on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:26AM
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Hike dem goalposts!
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by mentat on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:23PM
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They're just talking about reality of every day landings. If you don't like it, don't make up counterfactual claims in the first place.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by icebraining on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:39AM
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Aircraft operate in essentially empty space, and barring major mechanical failure the pilots typically have tens of seconds up to many minutes to act to avoid disaster. In a car you often have less than a second to react, and certainly never more than 4-5.
Aircraft hardware and software is tested, retested, tested again, and certified. Auto hardware and software is pushed out the door with reckless disregard for reliability.
There is really no comparison.