California Green-Lights Self-Driving Cars

[pgc hunter]

Originally Posted by leon

I would rather be in control of the driving, i reckon and in 10-15 years up the track we will have a bunch of people who will not be able to drive at all and make important decisions behind the wheel.

My two cents worth.

Leon

That is pretty much the case now.

[AndrewJ]

manufacturers to make sure they are safe through threat of litigation

Looks like that is about to be tested.
Uber car ( with safety driver on board ) just killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ash-in-arizona
Who will get the blame???
Will ( the inevitable ) psychological testing show that like now, the more computerised help you add to a car, the less the occupant "thinks" or "watches", even when its their only job.

Andrew

[Wavytone]

Another issue is that if autonomous vehicles are able to safely negotiate a city without hitting pedestrians it won’t take long before pedestrians figure they’re safe - and will do as they please.

City centres will be gridlocked quickly with cars waiting forever while the pedestrians ignore them.

The one thing that keeps pedestrians off the roads is the knowledge that some human drivers -esp large vehicles - might not give way.

[AndrewJ]

it won’t take long before pedestrians figure they’re safe - and will do as they please.

Thats easy to fix
All roads will be forced to be retrofitted with the equivalent of pool fences, just like the cheese graters going up in the bush roads now.

Saves the trees, but makes stopping for an emergency ( or a leak ) a rather dangerous operation now.

Andrew