Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by revelation on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:44PM
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If you almost rear-end the autonomous car, it's because you are a bad driver. There is no "innate understanding of 100 years of traffic flow", there is just a socially accepted carelessness and recklessness with which people drive that is killing thousands every year, many of them kids. It's pretty much the leading cause of death for teenagers.
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Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by jrs95 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @03:21PM
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I doubt he meant it literally, probably more like he had to slow uncomfortably fast because the self driving car behaved in a somewhat jerky manner. Think about what you might do if you had to slow down in this situation -- you'd try to balance leaving room ahead of you as you did it with not stopping so quickly as to startle the driver behind you. There's a lot of nuance to that, and it wouldn't surprise me if computers weren't very good at it yet.