Re:Audi claims the A8 is the first production car to reach L...
by adrianN on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:28AM
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I'd rather have the solution with fewer serious accidents, even if it introduces types of accidents that don't happen with human drivers. I know a handful of people who were seriously injured in traffic.
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Re:Audi claims the A8 is the first production car to reach L...
by gambiting on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:43AM
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I think accidents in traffic will be completely 100% solved by brake assist and collision prevention systems - I think they are meant to be mandatory in all new cars sold in US by 2020 if I remember correctly? So not long now. AI solves a different category of problems and isn't really necessary to solve crashes when there is a lot of cars driving close to each other.
Re:Audi claims the A8 is the first production car to reach L...
by adrianN on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:59AM
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I'm looking forward to those things as well. But bicycles don't have brake assist. It takes a very sophisticated collision detection system to prevent right-hooking a cyclist.
Re:Audi claims the A8 is the first production car to reach L...
by dsfyu404ed on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:02PM
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Electric assist bikes/mopeds will let most cyclists safely keep up with traffic in the kinds of places where you have to worry about those kinds of collisions, bike lanes will go the way of the dodo and car traffic will no longer have to take right turns across a lane of (bike) traffic.
Having a traffic pattern that requires a right turn (or left for certain countries) across a different lane of traffic is shitty and when a better solution shows up it will probably be implemented.