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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by GavinMcG on Friday May 02, 2025 @05:07AM (#43867646)
That mistake might induce human error—which is absolutely a source of danger—but it undoubtedly had a clear path to pull around the “stopped” vehicle, and as you said, you can generally trust Wayno not to plow into pedestrians. So what made it “lucky” that no one was hurt?
Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by RandomBacon on Friday May 02, 2025 @06:42AM (#43868113)
If the "stopped" vehicle made the turn as the Waymo made the presumably-illegal turn into the "stopped" vehicle that was now moving?
Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by kaliqt on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:00AM (#43868594)
So the answer is that we clearly need that car also to be a Waymo. Problem solved! Hah.
Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by rubyfan on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:23AM (#43868817)
Why don’t we have cars talk to each other and coordinate their routing? Like some sort of peer to peer mechanism that helps them not crash each other. Why can’t vehicles be made to stop at cross walks when someone is crossing with some sort of communication to the vehicle?
Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by foobarian on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:57AM (#43869136)
There is a long and glorious research bibliography on v2v comms for this purpose :-) The obstacles are pretty obvious, the chicken-and-egg problem and trust.
Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by mtgentry on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:01PM (#43872982)
Solve this problem and LA traffic will get much better
Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by rangestransform on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:03PM (#43876030)
As someone who works on autonomous driving, having wireless communications on a path where it’s responsible for safety guarantees is a nightmare