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03-20-2018, 09:25 AM #26
Well, don't those all count as "problems"? Will the new system cause more or less "problems" than the current human pilot system does??
Liability was addressed above with the proposal to grant blanket immunity to the industry same as the gun industry enjoys.. With the current foxes in the government hen house that is probably a slam dunk..Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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03-20-2018, 09:26 AM #27
One thing that’s interesting about this is that there was a human ‘override’ driver present. I wonder if the controls were overtaken at any point.
If the car was still automated, it brings up the big, ethical question of this tech: should the car hit a pedestrian or should it sway and endanger the lives of the passengers?
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03-20-2018, 09:33 AM #28Funky But Chic
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03-20-2018, 09:34 AM #29Funky But Chic
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03-20-2018, 09:40 AM #30www.dpsskis.com
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03-20-2018, 09:41 AM #31
Theres billions of people living in cities in America and Europe and elsewhere that do it every day. Groceries are tough, but, you have them delivered. In a pinch, call a cab. You know, one of those yellow cars that you can just wave down, or call on your phone or an app. The yellow cars have licensed drivers, not the black ones you hail on an app. Again, much cheaper, efficient, and environmentally friendly than a bunch of robot cars zooming around. Proven technology. Try it. It works. But, wheres the profit in all that?
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03-20-2018, 09:41 AM #32
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03-20-2018, 09:44 AM #33
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03-20-2018, 09:46 AM #34
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03-20-2018, 09:51 AM #35
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03-20-2018, 09:52 AM #36
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03-20-2018, 09:53 AM #37www.dpsskis.com
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formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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03-20-2018, 09:57 AM #38
This isn't a computer router that you can just restart when it goes on the fritz. Its a two ton piece of machinery that earns zero empathy from the populace. Its an appliance that can kill people in this idealistic scenario, and if people are getting killed by appliances, those appliances wont sell.
And it is most definitely the point. What good is transportation that only works in Socal or AZ?Live Free or Die
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03-20-2018, 09:59 AM #39
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03-20-2018, 10:04 AM #40
It's already here, helping.
Let's agree on some metrics if you'd like to quantify and measure these things....
1.18 deaths per 100 million VMT is the going rate using current technology (which includes some level of autonomy for a percentage of the cars in use today).
Vehicles have already started to help, and automate vs the conditions you use... anti lock brakes being near the top of the list.
And, for a good chunk of the populace, getting up a snowy road is a non starter anyway, and I'd imagine that we are a few iterations away from solving those issues.www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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03-20-2018, 10:11 AM #41
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03-20-2018, 10:12 AM #42
Wait. I always thought that the primary argument for robot transportation was safety. Now that we have a death, it's all relative now? Whoops, well, there's still less than those dumb, drunken humans. What happens when numbers climb? Then, at a certain point, you have to ask yourself, why robot cars?
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03-20-2018, 10:13 AM #43
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03-20-2018, 10:14 AM #44www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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03-20-2018, 10:25 AM #45
The going rate for your metric is in virtually perfect weather conditions, in select cities with said conditions.
Saying it works great in LA or Vegas doesn't mean shit when it snows half an inch on your commute to work.
Let alone people have died as a result of truck crossing a rural highway (Tesla) or a pedestrian jaywalking (Uber) in these perfect conditions already. I encounter those situations literally 10x a day.
Don't get me wrong the concept is cool, just like flying cars, but the execution is going to fail miserably. Unless you implant RFID tags or whatever in every roadway in the land this dream is not happening. We can't even fix potholes currently.Live Free or Die
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03-20-2018, 10:30 AM #46www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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03-20-2018, 10:30 AM #47
Yeah, that argument amuses me. Like the average person is such a pro at driving in bad weather. It's not like the fundamentals of snow driving are all that complicated: Slow down, increase following distance, modulate power delivery, brake early. That's basically it, nothing you can't program. Rain and snow definitely mess with LIDAR, but it's only a matter of time before that is solved.
Christ, Benny, this isn't that hard to understand. There's usually 35,000-40,000 auto deaths each year. Hypothetically, let's assume that full adoption of driverless cars still results in 10,000 deaths per year (probably a high estimate). That's a lot of dead people, but the safety argument is still valid because it's far less dead people than if people were still driving.
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03-20-2018, 10:32 AM #48Funky But Chic
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