There are bound to be hiccups.
On April 6, an autonomously driven truck fitted with technology by TuSimple Holdings Inc. suddenly veered left, cut across the I-10 highway in Tucson, Ariz., and slammed into a concrete barricade.
The accident, which regulators disclosed to the public in June after TuSimple filed a report on the incident, underscores concerns that the autonomous-trucking company is risking safety on public roads in a rush to deliver driverless trucks to market, according to independent analysts and more than a dozen of the company’s former employees. A TuSimple spokesman said safety is a top priority for the company and that nobody was injured in the accident. […]
The April incident involved a rig with a TuSimple driver and engineer aboard, and the company has repeatedly blamed the accident on human error. But details in the June regulatory disclosure, along with internal company documents, show what autonomous-driving-system specialists say are fundamental problems with the company’s technology.”
An internal TuSimple report on the mishap, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, said the semi-tractor truck abruptly veered left because a person in the cab hadn’t properly rebooted the autonomous driving system before engaging it, causing it to execute an outdated command. The left-turn command was 2 1/2 minutes old—an eternity in autonomous driving—and should have been erased from the system but wasn’t, the internal account said.
But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said it was the autonomous-driving system that turned the wheel and that blaming the entire accident on human error is misleading. Common safeguards would have prevented the crash had they been in place, said the researchers, who have spent decades studying autonomous-driving systems.
Via Phantom Soapbox
If you want to know the state of autonomous driving, go back about a decade in the Car & Driver archives, and read about the glitches encountered with adaptive cruise control, and the sudden panic braking that was often encountered. On near empty highways.
Like the brand name for autonomous system: “TuSimple”. Yeah, right.
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Oh, c’mon you knuckle draggers… it’s not like you’ve
ever had any issues with your comput…
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Can I fix the self driving glitch like I solve all my computer glitches? Unplug it and plug it back in?
I’m kind of torn on this issue. One one hand you have the potential for malfunction with tragic results. But, on the other hand you have a populous that seems to be using the film “Idiocracy” as a blueprint in their lives. People really are getting more and more vapid and less trustworthy in operation of a motor vehicle.
Finally, we have the interlopers who will exploit this mechanism for tracking, control and infringement of various freedoms.
Of course, it is all immaterial as the climate change Luddites are doing everything they can to return us to caveman days.
The auto braking on my wife’s Subaru has engaged twice. Both times hitting the brakes HARD when it detected the exhaust vapours in a Saskatchewan January. Lucky I was not rear ended.
The love and desire for auto pilot eludes me. I’ll trust my 16 yr old kid or that Uncle we all have who has a couple 4 rye at every gathering over any auto pilot.
My argument to the pro auto crowd? They don’t have auto pilot trains. How can they do it in a car?
The BART system in the SF Bay Area was sold to the public with the promise of computer driven trains. Well … we STILL have UNIONISTA BART train drivers sitting at a console getting paid $6-large to watch for when their computer screen fails. The system continues to be plagued with phantom trains appearing and stopping trains dead … waiting for a ghost to pass
The autopilot design was Too Simple hahaha
Self driving Semi Truck with a DARPA state of the art Civilian Défense System which include robotic:
1.0 Killing Drones…
2.0 Microwave AR 666F Heat Human Diespersal AI .GovCorp controlled, wink wink ; (… they killed the name:
The…
“BurnThem 666”
3.0 The 5G Vibrate Human Breathing Sufication Bush # 1
All for your Safety…
Of Course…
CBC News…
Don’t be a Conspiracy Theorists…
Just In…
Did That…
I wonder if Mr Hou can drive and if so, how well.
Badly, no doubt. He is Chinese. As is evident not only in his name, but in his approach to business.
More dangerous than climate change.
Thanks for the linkage, Kate! ~:D