Re:Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous drivi...
by bluGill on Monday August 28, 2017 @03:59PM
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I wonder if in the future the law will say self driving cars can ignore all those signs when the car chooses to. Obviously there will be a lot of legalese about it, but most signs can be safely ignored already if you understand all the hazards - this is why people tend to just slow down at stop signs not come to a complete stop.
This is better for the environment, there is a lot of energy lost in a full stop for a stop sign that could be saved: less air pollution/CO2 to deal with.
Re:Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous drivi...
by euyyn on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:52PM
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What models of car read speed limit signs?
Re:Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous drivi...
by mikeash on Monday August 28, 2017 @01:11PM
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Teslas can (although the second revision of the Autopilot hardware doesn't do it yet).
Re:Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous drivi...
by andrewaylett on Monday August 28, 2017 @05:54PM
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The rental Astra we had the other month did.
Of course, the road system is designed for humans' foibles, not computers' foibles, and computers will have to deal with that. But the bar is low.
Computers aren't really as consistent as you say, either. Obviously, a deterministic machine will produce the same outputs for the same inputs. But when your inputs are camera data from the real world, you'll never get the same input twice. For example, my car sometimes misreads or fails to read speed limit signs, but it'll usually read the exact same sign perfectly fine the next time I go past.