Meet the Founder Trying to Start the Self-Driving Car Revolution

Re:Meet the Founder Trying to Start the Self-Driving Car Rev... by joosters on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @07:50PM (#8994640)

What happens when it reaches the end of the drivable highway? Will it wake me up and make me take the wheel? What if I don't? Does the car crash, emergency stop in the middle of the highway, or pull over gracefully?

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Re:Meet the Founder Trying to Start the Self-Driving Car Rev... by Hytosys on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:15PM (#8995268)

Do you really think that any risk-based company would operate under any of those philosophies besides "pull over gracefully"?

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Re:Meet the Founder Trying to Start the Self-Driving Car Rev... by darkmighty on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:38PM (#8995329)

There are many places you couldn't conceivably pull over.

You can always get around this kinds of problems by stating the functionality clearly (and limiting it's actions to a well defined set), but exactly this diminishes greatly the functionality of the service.

If you guarantee to people they can safely idle, they will idle and barely look at the road. If you don't, they will have to maintain attention at all times and all this will be is a "strain-reduction device" (i.e. not so useful). There's no good half-attention for humans.

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Re:Meet the Founder Trying to Start the Self-Driving Car Rev... by swsieber on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @02:07AM (#8995687)

Then they make it so it pulls over gracefully before it leaves the zone in which they could.

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