Self-driving bus crashes in Vegas a few hours after launch

Self driving cars will only be safe when they can communicate with each other. In fact, that is what will make self driving cars vastly superior to human operated vehicles because the communication with other cars will reduce traffic because vehicles will adjust speeds and seamlessly merge instead of accordioning in traffic jams and playing "no, you go . . . no you go" when merging. Cars will also be able to drive closer together at high speeds because reaction time will not be an issue.

Just wait, pretty soon driverless trucks will be hitting robots.

When self driving cars start entering demolition derbies with human drivers (trying to crush self-driving car) and come away unscathed, then self driving cars will be safe. This should be the turing test of self driving cars.

Wait, it crashed after launch? What kind of moron launches a bus? Seems like a crash should be the expected result.

cath... wrote:

When self driving cars start entering demolition derbies with human drivers (trying to crush self-driving car) and come away unscathed, then self driving cars will be safe. This should be the turing test of self driving cars.

You can't even get a human to enter a DD and come away unscathed, so why is that the bar for self-driving cars to meet?

Get human drivers off the road. We are the problem, not the cars. Or get rid of cars all together. Eventually humans will look back at the monstrosity that is a car and shake our heads.

A small pod-style vehicle, battery powered, with speeds over 100mph, range of greater than 500 miles, and weight less than 500lbs will become the norm eventually. Get rid of 3000lbs death traps. Look at the state of e-bikes. When you can buy an ebike with a range of 200+ miles and top speed of 50mph+ I feel like there will be a social shift in what reasonable transportation looks like.

The self driving bus doesn't work now, but trust me, by 2020 it will.

Precious Roy wrote:

Self driving cars will only be safe when they can communicate with each other. In fact, that is what will make self driving cars vastly superior to human operated vehicles because the communication with other cars will reduce traffic because vehicles will adjust speeds and seamlessly merge instead of accordioning in traffic jams and playing "no, you go . . . no you go" when merging. Cars will also be able to drive closer together at high speeds because reaction time will not be an issue.

When this happens, it will be awesome, but until then I wouldn't want a self driving car (unless I could override to drive how I want to).

[quote]Google not at the wheel wrote:

Waymo, Google's year-old company dedicated to commercializing autonomous vehicles, will soon be offering Phoenix-area residents rides.

They should have called it Whammo!

Google not at the wheel wrote:

Waymo, Google's year-old company dedicated to commercializing autonomous vehicles, will soon be offering Phoenix-area residents rides.

They should have called it Whammo!

WHAMMO wrote:

Google not at the wheel wrote:

Waymo, Google's year-old company dedicated to commercializing autonomous vehicles, will soon be offering Phoenix-area residents rides.

They should have called it Whammo!

They should have called it Whammmo!

WHAMMMO wrote:

WHAMMO wrote:

They should have called it Whammo!

They should have called it Whammmo!

That's gold Jerry, gold!