AAA says the vehicles drifted out of lanes and hugged lane markers, struggling with moderate traffic, curved roads and streets with busy intersections. Three of the four would have failed to avoid a crash when the vehicle ahead of them changed lanes and a simulated stopped vehicle was ahead.
Other than that, they worked grate.
h/t Walter
Think of them less as transportation, more as population control. You know, so more of the earth’s resources are reserved for Elon’s use.
‘Grate’?
Perhaps demonstrating how easy it is to confuse an automated system such as a spellchecker.
ding!ding!ding!ding!
Best line about self driving cars & their future, I read here on SDA:
“Uncontrolled railway crossings”
I think that is showing how “grate” these systems are by writing a spelling error.
I, for one, miss having a manual spark advance.
So then … these self-driving cars are nothing more than “cruise control” … whereby my automobile already “drives itself” … until I touch the brake to keep from hitting the slow car in front of me. Good to know.
bird flew in front of car…..car slammed on the brakes…car was rear ended…caused a 3 car pileup
….true story
I was driving along a rural road early one morning when I came over a rise to find a chicken in my lane. I had to make an instant decision — whether to try to avoid the chicken and possibly have an accident in the process, or to hit the chicken. I decided (wisely I think) to sacrifice the chicken.
It would be interesting to see how a self-driving car would respond.
When I lived in Tahoe City in 1979 … there were highway patrol public service messages on the radio WARNING drivers to go-ahead hit the deer and not swerve into a tree (on an oncoming driver) and kill themselves. Sorry animal lovers. Suicide is not equal to an animals life.
Federal and provincial/state hi-level bureaucrats should be issued such experimental cars for testing, e.i. acting in the public interest, which is supposed to be their raison d’etre, anyway.
Working in software I know how prone to failure it can be. Artificial Intelligence is at the “sorting data into categories” stage, not independent decision-making. The combination of user error in programming and an over-reliance on AI that is not ready is risky at best.
jon:
I would change 1 word in your message. ‘risky’ s.b. ‘dangerous’.
as in risk in an investment implies it might pay off in profit.
not so AI driven vehicles. not ‘risk’ as I describe but always and only dangerous.
Ive been suspicious of the term ‘AI’ since I first heard it in the mid-80s.
There is no such thing as artificial intelligence. Just like there is no such thing as women with testicles, or men with ovaries
When people have been talking about artificial intelligence for as long as they have been talking flying cars, will you admit that?
A computer will never be able to do anything that it was not programmed by a human, to do.
A computer will never be able to do anything that it was not programmed by a human, to do.
That’s fundamentally incorrect, and has been since 1992.
all programing has come from a human.
Kevin, don’t go all unDork on us now!!!
Sounds like rush hour in Calgary when it snows.
But, seriously, I think everyone knows the technology isn’t there yet for fully autonomous cars outside of some very specific situations. That doesn’t mean that it can’t be or won’t be done, it might just take a few decades. The first trains got beat by horses cause they broke down but eventually trains got better. Same with how horses and buggies were better than cars, no one would ever shop on the internet, print news would never die, and so on and so on. The first computers sat in entire office floors, now nearly anything in the entirety of knowledge of mankind can be looked up on your phone in seconds.
You’re being a luddite on this Kate….
hi slaw.
again, 1 word needs changing per print news. ‘die’ s.b. LIE
we’re gonna have a ball busting cold winter in these parts. the birds are getting fat on my homemade suet balls and
empty the bird seed feeder before noon.
ciao y’all !!!
I’m old enough to remember the push to convert vehicles to natural gas. Sask Energy just pulled the plug on the fueling depots here.
The biggest beneficiaries of self-driving cars will be lawyers. Lawsuits will abound. This will be a major source of revenue for lawyers.
I have a 2018 Rogue. Adaptive cruise and pro pilot assist. Th manual is fairly comprehensive about what it wont do, in fact I think it’s the longest section.
First, with the pilot assist, you have to keep one hand on the wheel, firmly, or the dash flashes red and starts beeping, loudly and faster the longer your hand it off the wheel, after 20 secs, the car will stop(!), yes, tried this on an empty road. It only works over 45 mph, and if the lines on the road are faded, it will shut down. Windy days freak it out, tight curves also.
Adaptive cruise is much better, although if the car in front changes lanes and slows, and is still partially in your lane, panic stop! But we drove from Virginia to FLA, 900 miles or so, it was pretty nice, but you have to pay attention. All in all, not bad.
all those functions should have an off button. my current suv has an off switch for those automatic functions if I do not want to use them.
But they still drive a car better than just about every Chinese dude, most black woman and every f’n taxi driver or Uber rapist.
Buddy, that list is much bigger than what you posted. I would say about 80-90 percent of all drivers are piss poor at driving.
Yes – and they are all colours, shapes, sizes and ages.
I think anyone who is gung-ho about self-driving cars should consider how things would be around airports if the volume of planes in the sky was similar to urban road traffic. Nuff said, they have enough trouble with their self-flying planes with 0.01% of the volume. It only works at all because humans can intervene if the computers are flying the planes into each other or the ground.
I don’t trust this whole initiative, I think it’s part one of a scheme where the powers that be then tell us, well look we have to go with self driving vehicles because you humans aren’t up to the task, but they aren’t very reliable, so only a few can have them. The rest will need to turn in their guns, I mean cars. The guns will be turned in first. Or that’s what they’re thinking, anyway. You’ll see how it all works out, I may have shuffled off this mortal coil before that stage of utopia unfolds.