California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present

Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by sosilkj on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:54AM (#16474500)

What guarantee do I have that a car will take me where I want to go if I cannot drive it myself and I cannot inspect the software?

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by tdb7893 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:56AM (#16474521)

What's the guarantee that a taxi driver will take you where you want to go? You can't inspect his software either. A taxi driver could feasibly just leave the taxi and take his keys with him but practically that doesn't happen. Also you would have a cell phone so could call their support or arrange another car

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by tree_of_item on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:12PM (#16477937)

The taxi driver is a human, humans have different, less spectacular failure modes. In a world with self-driving cars, it's plausible that there's a bug/hack that makes EVERY car on the road do something wrong or malicious like take you to the wrong destination/drive in to a crowd of people etc.

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by puppetmaster400 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:32AM (#16482824)

( it won't let me reply on the other thread - pardon, you asked for http://bfy.tw/Gqi6 )

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by twblalock on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:29PM (#16476372)

You could ask the same question about any car made in the past 5-10 years. They all run millions of lines of code, and none of it is open source. It turns out not to be a problem.

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