Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving

Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by carlsborg on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:25AM (#26355602)

Solving self-driving in dense slow moving traffic on narrow city rodes is a simpler problem than on high speed freeway style roads, mainly because the risks are much lower - you wont get injured at 20mph in moderns cars. Dings and dents can be compensated relatively cheaply.

Much of urban Europe with pre-industrial-revolution cities and part of urban Asia is slow moving traffic. Slow, compared to California/Atlanta/Houston non-rush-hour freeways.

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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by kwhitefoot on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:13AM (#26357664)

Surely not. Motorway driving is very simple compared to urban driving. This consequences of a collision are probably less serious in slow moving traffic but the risk of them happening is much higher. And the density of traffic and of pedestrians makes the job much more complicated.

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