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In Reply to: RE: How would a human handle the situation any better?... posted by Steve O on March 25, 2017 at 17:44:19
I would say the AI car would be able to stop in time, most of the time. Unless the person deliberately jump in front at the last moment.
What I wonder about is stuff like road kill? Is a self driving car going to stop for a dead raccoon in the road in front of the car? How about a rock or a small log?
I can see in NYC, light changes, pedestrians do not stop walking. No car is going to nudge them! Until no one wants to walk, the self driving cars are stuck. Period.
And how DO self driving cars know the light changed? or an arrow for turns?
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...as is ability for signals to sense and communicate with cars...and cars communicating with other cars as to position, velocity etc. We just need infrastructure improvements...not likely soon in current political environment.
What this world needs is government-mandated non-bypassable systems in cars and - especially - pickup trucks which will prevent morons/idiots/yahoos from zoomin' down the highway and coming within feet of taking off the back left corner of a vehicle they want to pass at 75 or 80 miles an hour (which would then send the passed vehicle into whatever object/creek/drop-off is on their right).What the hell is wrong with some people on the highway? They seem to think they're on some NASCAR track and think it's cool to come as close as possible without actually causing a major/fatal accident.
Morons. Idiots. Yahoos. Jackasses.
AND, we should have rearview cameras and object sensors which automatically record such moronic behavior and automatically send it to the nearest law enforcement agency. The technology is here now.
THEN we'd be getting somewhere, safety-wise.
Y'all have a pleasant day on the highway!
:)
Edits: 03/29/17
I wouldn't live much longer with AI making a decision based on a traffic signal input. I exit my neighborhood onto a busy 4 lane road via a traffic light. Drivers on the 4 lane road (with a 50 mph speed limit) routinely fly through that intersection at speeds well in excess of 50 mph regardless of what color the light is in their direction. If you don't look after the light turns green and wait for the light runner to come barreling through, you'd be toast. Life expectancy? Maybe a week.
Only way this could work is if ALL cars were running on AI, and the AI control could not be disabled. That would piss off a lot of drivers on this particular 4 lane road. :)
Well, that's impossible, isn't it!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
...that's what "BIG government" is for.
FWLIW, I expect when implemented, good AI will be able to safely handle all road situations including the transition period better than ANY human driver. Probably <10yrs away:....I hope! Encountered two a*^hole drivers yesterday. At least one a day. Inadvertently, I might even be one.
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