How driverless cars will affect our cities

Re:How driverless cars will affect our cities by pyre on Friday March 29, 2013 @10:13AM (#5460800)

  | If automated cars stop just one drunk driver
  | from killing someone, I think the whole
  | invention will be worth it if only for just that.

Well, not if they cause more deaths from malfunction.

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Re:How driverless cars will affect our cities by ck2 on Friday March 29, 2013 @10:15AM (#5460818)

That's a valid concern but sensors and computing hardware is becoming so inexpensive it's possible to have two or more redudant systems that check each other's results before causing an action (or if one fails).

That is how the space shuttle's computers worked based on 1980s technology, I think there were six of them checking each other's results.

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