Collided with a delivery truck.
Collided with a delivery truck.
If the delivery truck had also been self-driving, the crash wouldn't have happened.
Future is not here yet wrote:
Collided with a delivery truck.
http://news3lv.com/news/local/driverless-shuttle-crashes-on-first-day-of-service-in-downtown-las-vegas
And this is in vegas, no hills and a grid. Try this in an east coast city. Then add winter...good luck.
Did it shout "Allahu Akbar!" ?
YMMV wrote:
Did it shout "Allahu Akbar!" ?
POD
If the truck driver was carrying he could have shot the tires out of the bus and stopped this travesty.
Yes, the accident was technically the human truck driver's fault, but he problem is that if there was a human driver in the van they could have just moved the bus out of the way to avoid the truck backing up. I can't wait for driverless cars, but they still have a long way to go.
When these things get into accidents, they always blame the other driver as if these things didn't have to be designed precisely to interact with a world of drivers. The truck backed into the shuttle, yes, but here's the real question: would a shuttle driver have stopped while a truck backed into it, rather than moving out of the way or standing on the horn and yelling?
Did the truck driver leap out and "road rage" at the bus?
I think we will be perpetually 15 years from driveless vehicles being a major factor.
The obsession with autonomous vehicles is insane. Unfortunately city streets are full of people driving poorly, and it takes a person to react to any number of stimuli at one time (including knowing when other drivers are going to act like idiots). Unfortunately autonomous vehicles haven't figured out how to lay on a horn and flip another driver off. The car of the future couldn't last a couple hours in the real world. By the time you build enough sensors and put enough computing power into the car to handle all of the data and write all of the algorithms for every different scenario some kid on a cell phone will put it all to not. Unfortunately a computer can't identify that the driver in front of you is talking on a cell phone, it can't see the kids throwing water balloons from their yard, it can't see the solid sheet of ice leading into the intersection. Automated trains don't even work all the time, and they are in control of a whole lot more variables than a car surrounded by thousands of idiots.
In other news, 20,000-40,000 people are still killed by human drivers in this country every single year.
Hardloper wrote:
YMMV wrote:
Did it shout "Allahu Akbar!" ?
POD
+1000
other news wrote:
In other news, 20,000-40,000 people are still killed by human drivers in this country every single year.
Lots of great posts in this thread.
The one quoted is not one of them.
When are they going to launch the self-riding bicycle?
Luv2Run wrote:
I think we will be perpetually 15 years from driveless vehicles being a major factor.
I think this is incorrect. 15 years from now, the shipping and transit industries are going to be completely different and there will be a lot of drivers looking for work. I think this will revolutionize personal transportation like the internet did with buying things.
Luv2Run wrote:
I think we will be perpetually 15 years from driveless vehicles being a major factor.
No we're actually only a few years away, and driverless cars are rapidly approaching viability at an exponential rate. The 2015 disengagement rate for Waymo vehicles was once every 1000 miles. The 2016 disengagement rate was once every 5000 miles. The number just keeps going down. Waymo is at this very moment rolling out a ride hailing service with no drivers (not even engineers) in Phoenix.
This Vegas thing is a botched experiment by some no name company with no name tech. Google/Waymo is light years ahead of every other company. They are the only one that matters.
Luv2Run wrote:
I think we will be perpetually 15 years from driveless vehicles being a major factor.
You should stop thinking.