Re:Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for ...
by ncallaway on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:12PM
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> Without significantly reworking current infrastructure the challenges presented by city driving are too fuzzy to guarantee safety.
But, there's no guarantee of safety now. Human drivers are fallible and fail all the time.
A guarantee of safety is a crazy metric to require before we can allow autonomous vehicles. A better metric is: "before the vehicle is more safe than the median human driver". Once it hits that level of safety, it should be in the streets.
Re:Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for ...
by organsnyder on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:32PM
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> For example, traffic lights can be obscured, out of order, or spoofed
Wouldn't that also potentially impact human drivers?
Without significantly reworking current infrastructure the challenges presented by city driving are too fuzzy to guarantee safety. For example, traffic lights can be obscured, out of order, or spoofed; unless they are modified to support av; I don't think this is solvable.
Although autonomous vehicles will require a safety driver for a while, interim benefits still exist and services like this will potentially provide the momentum needed to make those infrastructure changes.