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Re:Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock by gwern on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:03PM (#17465863)
Citing the Uber case is particularly egregious. Have we all forgotten the NTSB report? It was only a few weeks ago. The Uber car tried to brake, but Uber had deliberately disabled the brakes for a more comfortable ride.
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Re:Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock by UncleEntity on Thursday July 05, 2018 @05:19PM (#17466935)
Which basically makes the argument, to provide "a more comfortable ride" they had to disable a critical safety system that didn't do its job good enough to be used all the time. There were so many false positives that it made the car a road hazard due to random hard breaking.
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Re:Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock by kwhitefoot on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:12AM (#17469322)
> There were so many false positives that it made the car a road hazard due to random hard breaking.

Do you know that for certain? Or is it just that Uber were too lazy to cope with any complications that might arise if Volvo's system braked?

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