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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by rorykoehler on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:33PM (#17889816)
Cars are already mostly software controlled drive by wire systems. Self driving cars will also be easily safer than meat bucket controlled ones. You should try roding a bicycle regularly. It's scary how bad people are at driving. Most shouldn't be on the road. It's like they think what they learned to pass their test isn't relevant one you have your license.
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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by uluyol on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:58PM (#17889908)
How are cars drive by wire? Sure, newer cars have electric power steering, but I would guess that 99% of cars older than 10 years use hydraulic power steering and brakes.

Even then, it takes very little software to do electric power steering, so I'm not sure how you would consider this at all comparable to autonomous driving.

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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by darpa_escapee on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:19AM (#17890369)
> Self driving cars will also be easily safer than meat bucket controlled ones.

This is a pretty generous assumption you're granting here.

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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by gbear605 on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:55AM (#17890477)
We’re already granting the assumption that these self driving cars are generally popular. For that to be the case, they’ll have to be safer than humans or people won’t be okay with letting them on the roads in large numbers.
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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by darpa_escapee on Saturday September 01, 2018 @02:14AM (#17890526)
That's another mighty assumption. The new shiny doesn't have to be better or safer for it to be popular.
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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by rorykoehler on Saturday September 01, 2018 @04:05AM (#17890834)
Human drivers are atrocious. It won't be hard to be better than them.
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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by darpa_escapee on Saturday September 01, 2018 @04:17AM (#17890878)
> It won't be hard to be better than them.

That's another very generous assumption wrapped in a truism.

I'd say it's one of the more difficult problems problems in the industry, given the billions of dollars poured into it.

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Re:Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing by rorykoehler on Saturday September 01, 2018 @10:55AM (#17892113)
It only needs to be solved once
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