Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s...
by anyfoo on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:31PM
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Can you explain this more thoroughly? So the AI cannot itself resolve a situation that requires resolution within a split second, therefore it passes control (reliable, latency free?!) to a remote operations center where humans get to... assess the situation in order to remotely tell the vehicle how to react in time? I must have completely misunderstood, because I don’t see how any part of that plan is working?
Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s...
by tomlu on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:20PM
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The idea is that such situations are non life threatening. The vehicle will pull over and wait for a human operator.
It's not crazy to imagine that computers could handle split second decisions better than humans but choose to bail out to the side of the road if there's something they can't handle.
Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s...
by ulfw on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:48AM
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There isn’t always a “side of the road” tho. (think tunnels, walls, Old Towns, busy city centres...)
Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s...
by kgin on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:18PM
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Tunnels are perhaps the only "no stopping" situation where there is nowhere to pull over. Luckily, tunnels are also the absolute simplest self-driving scenario.
Tunnels have to kept clear of obstacles. If an SDC would have to stop, so would a human-driven car.
For the others, stopped cars are very common.
But with level 4 + remote assistance, you don't need to support all the edge cases to have a car with no steering wheel. You only need to reduce the need for remote assistance enough to make the economics work out.
We will all have been riding around happily in cars without steering wheels for decades before "true self driving" comes to pass.
It's possible that remote assistance centers will never shut down entirely, even 100 years from now, still waiting on the off-chance that a .00000000001% edge case pops up that the system still can't handle.