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Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by jpao79 on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:52PM (#16663336)
Isn't this where a humanoid robot (i.e. some sort of Boston Dynamics type robot) doing random, erratic stuff might be handy?

Maybe put a bunch of them in a test track area like this one in Concord, California. Gomentum is Silicon Valley's secretive test track for self-driving cars:

https://www.cnet.com/videos/inside-silicon-valleys-secretive...

Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by ehsankia on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:55PM (#16663369)
Waymo has their own too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-2XuKdbMI

I do agree that there needs to be a minimum requirement you should reach before being allowed to drive on public roads. Companies should not be alpha testing with human lives.

Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by jpao79 on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:04PM (#16663422)
Cool - was not aware of that one. At some point during the qualification process, multiple self driving competing car vendors should be put in the same test bed at the same time for a month of continuous 24/7 driving.

The test bed should have the 'average moving car density' equivalent to that of an SF/NYC neighborhood.

Let the robots test themselves and risk their 'lives' first before putting real human lives in the mix!

Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by sgillen on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:17PM (#16663503)
I think there are much cheaper and more reliable ways to mimic pedestrians right now than full on walking robots...

But yeah some sort of random pedestrian/animal/debris in the road testing seems like it will be crucial to prevent this sort of accident from happening again.

Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by jumpmanjr on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:07AM (#16664813)
The self driving car executive’s children. These guys are willing to risk my family to make a lot of money. We should make it mandatory that their kids play an extravagant game of frogger, instructed (when/where to cross) by college kids who get paid $$$ if one of the kids gets hit. Televise it. Let’s see how confident they really are in their technology.
Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by JetSpiegel on Saturday March 24, 2018 @07:21AM (#16666052)
A modest proposal.