woolly wrote:Basically the author is saying auto driving tech should be classed with nuclear, hospital tech, etc in that even one fatal mistake is one too many.
Presumably we apply the same test to human driven cars?
As a pedestrian I'm not that bothered about what flavour of car kills me, but if the situation could be avoided altogether I'd very much appreciate it, even if some other poor sod is still run over elsewhere and if the situations are reversed I'm sure he would think the same and I wouldn't begrudge him his survival.
odysseus2000 wrote:Yes, the whole autominous driving future is not holding up that well in practice.
Musk had said that a Tesla would drive itself from coast to coast across the US by the end of 2017, but it didn't happen and we have had the Uber crash where it is difficult to understand why the system didn't respond.
Not for Tesla whose system is closer to an overdeveloped cruise control than an autonomous vehicle or UBER who have just settled a stolen IP claim from Waymo for $245 million... any reason other, arguably more reputable, players' systems should be considered suspect?
Coast to coast is so 2015, atleast that's when Delphi, now APTIV, did it with 99% autonomous control.
More conjecture on the UBER fatality:
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/2 ... lind_spot/They appear to have been trying to do it on the cheap, I thought the days of the single rotating LIDAR were restricted to the history books.
odysseus2000 wrote:There will be exhaustive research on all of these tragedies and this might throw up some understanding, but it begins to look like the systems currently deployed have flaws. It may be that such flaws can not be engineered out and one then has to make a decision based on the grim business of whether computers or people kill and injury the least number of people and develop the legal frame work for handling computer incidents.
Grim how? 1.3 million people die on the roads every year. The decision to introduce technology which reduces that isn't grim, it would be a substantial achievement. And that's just accounting for those killed directly by automobiles. Autonomous cars don't have to be anywhere close to perfect to be a substantial improvement on human drivers.