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Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon... by garmaine on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:08PM (#19343133)
The problem is the other car has a human in it, and those situations are ones where the reaction of the other human is critical to safety analysis, but generally unpredictable.
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Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon... by UncleMeat on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:06PM (#19343468)
A computer will be able to react to a sudden crazy movement by another driver far better than a human will.
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Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon... by oflannabhra on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:33PM (#19344279)
“Will be”? Yep. Given an infinite timescale computers “will be” able to do lots of things better than people, such as navigate rough terrain or open a door.

Currently, they can’t do any of that better than humans, and probably not for several years.

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Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon... by creato on Saturday March 09, 2019 @12:16AM (#19344619)
It sounded like the post you replied to was referring to emergency maneuvers, and I think automated systems are probably better than humans at some kinds of emergency maneuvers even right now.
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Re:Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandon... by garmaine on Saturday March 09, 2019 @09:10AM (#19346161)
Performing emergency maneuvers, yes. Predicting the need for emergency maneuvers based on the varied and unpredictable responses of humans in exceptional circumstances, not so much.
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