Self-driving cars more dangerous

Zxcv_Bnm

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/in-2017-the-feds-said-tesla-autopilot-cut-crashes-40-that-was-bogus/

"the activation of Autosteer actually increased crash rates by 59 percent."

have to wait a bit longer for this one i think

Arklight

Tesla's autopilot isn't really self driving. If it doesn't know what to do it'll bing and bong to ask the driver to take control.

It takes on average 12 seconds for a human to take back control of an automated vehicle so better hope they have time.

movilogo

AI will get better over time. That's normal. In 20 years time driving will be a lost art.

This is neither a good thing nor a bad thing. Just change which comes over period of time.

PokerPlayer111

High quality self drive cant come soon enough. Idiots all over the roads and accidents are very common even without the idiots. Fully behind self drive development myself.

Nullboris

What will all the Boy racers do tho? most normal ppl will adapt, but IDiots who need to demonstrate their Persona by dangerous driving will end up beating people up instead?

Carl31

OK they're not perfect, but its not like our current way of working is totally safe either. Near where i live the A27 is generally closed most days due to accidents, something like 6 people a day die on our roads

Self driving is the future and cant come soon enough, the period where we have both self drive and manual drive will be the most dangerous though

Zxcv_Bnm

Carl31 wrote: »

OK they're not perfect, but its not like our current way of working is totally safe either.

And they're 59% worse than us, is the point

This is one of those things that's always just about to happen, like x ray spectacles and androids

If we ever get androids or self driving cars they'll constantly be downloading new software to make them worse so you have to buy a new one

It amazes me how androids in the movies and books are never like this, they're perfect and last forever

the only exception was an episode of Red Dwarf where Kryten shut down, and even that was a built in feature !!

Takedap

Zxcv_Bnm wrote: »

It amazes me how androids in the movies and books are never like this, they're perfect and last forever

Westworld :eek:

Zxcv_Bnm

Takedap wrote: »

Westworld :eek:

Blade runner :rotfl:

but even with these 'bad android' efforts the androids last forever or they could

actual androids will run on Windows and will keep crashing or mistake themselves for the gas boiler

I've got a laptop that thinks it's a phone

androids, same thing

kabayiri

Round here, we have minicab drivers with the customer awareness skills of your typical Terminator.

Might as well have the real thing.

PokerPlayer111

Zxcv_Bnm wrote: »

If we ever get androids or self driving cars they'll constantly be downloading new software to make them worse so you have to buy a new one

Should imagine there would or should be some kind of regulations to make profiting in that exact area tricky or it just wont be relevant.

Zxcv_Bnm wrote: »

And they're 59% worse than us, is the point

Wait 10 - 20 years and lets see.