Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:14PM
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> quite a bit simpler behavior of automated cars
Simple behavior is often more predictable, but not always. And it's predictability that matters.
> The simple truth is that automated cars drive more safely, with fewer mistakes and much less velocity changing (i.e. lane switches, passing attempts, "oops" late braking, missed exit swerves...).
> "oops" late braking
I'm not 100% sure what you mean here, so I'll split apart "oops" and "late".
A self-driving car might be less likely to brake late.
But everything I've heard says that a self-driving car is far more likely to "oops" in the form of sudden hard braking. Are you disagreeing? Can you back it up?
That is wildly overstating the complexity here. A teenager can learn to drive and pass their test with zero prior experience and maybe 10 hours of practice. "Altering" that intuition to account for the quite a bit simpler behavior of automated cars isn't going to be any harder.
This is just ludditism. The simple truth is that automated cars drive more safely, with fewer mistakes and much less velocity changing (i.e. lane switches, passing attempts, "oops" late braking, missed exit swerves...). They are easier to predict and understand, not harder.