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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by imh on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:18PM (#12979332)
I want the DMV to only license drivers when they are safe, alert, and driving defensively, so I want the DMV to only license autonomous systems when they can meet or exceed the bar of safe, alert, and defensive drivers. We can't enforce that humans drive that way after they're licensed, but we can enforce it with autonomous systems. We are already happy regulating driving, and we shouldn't lower the licensing bar to how people actually drive on average, "You get your license as long you drive better than the average Joe looking at google maps while he tailgates."
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by hx87 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:36PM (#12979513)
> We can't enforce that humans drive that way after they're licensed

Wait, isn't that what traffic police are for? Sometimes I wish speed limits were universally removed so that police will be forced to enforce the other 99.99% of traffic laws more strictly.

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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by grecy on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:24PM (#12979952)
> Wait, isn't that what traffic police are for?

They just punish after the fact. I'm still able to make a poor driving choice that results in the injury or death of a bunch of people.

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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by hx87 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:38PM (#12981281)
They also incentivize you to get your shit together before terrible things happen. After all, that's 50% of what punishments are for.
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by grecy on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:50PM (#12981416)
Sure, but they still don't physically stop you from doing something bad. It's still very possible, and actually easy to do it.
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by imh on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:43PM (#12983624)
Maybe the word "can't" was a poor choice. My point remains that people pretty much always drive in ways that would fail a DMV driving test. Plus, I know I sure drive differently when cops are around too.
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