So how would a self drive car deal with a cat?
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tescorank said:
As there are many variables and a computers can't deal with compassion I imagine a lot of dead cats, maybe on the other had they should not let them on the road until they have won a nascar race.
Conpassion is not really a factor. Instead the computer will be programmed to stop or avoid objects in the road (or about to enter the road over a certain size.If it was more dangerious to the car to stop than drive over the cat, then this is what will be the outcome. Programming can't help but make the safer choice.
While the cameras being used in self driving cars are many times faster than the human eye/brain it doesn't mean they are infaluable, as shown by the recent Tesla crash where it couldn't differenciate between the side of a white truck and the white sky.
tescorank said:
As there are many variables and a computers can't deal with compassion I imagine a lot of dead cats, maybe on the other had they should not let them on the road until they have won a nascar race.
It would react many times quicker than any human in the first place. The cat population will likely boom.
ts in your flowerbed" Toggle?Order66 said:
It would react many times quicker than any human in the first place. The cat population will likely boom.
It may know there's an object in the way quicker than a human, but it wouldn't know whether it was a cat, or a football, or a carrier bag, for several seconds, whereas a human knows within microseconds. This is one of the issues they are struggling with, not so much cats/footballs etc, but is it a large dog/bin liner caught on the breeze/runaway lawnmower/child ?
And even if it knows it's a child, and the kid has run out between parked cars and is within the stopping distance, so a collision can't be avoided, what does it do? Swerve into parked cars/oncoming cars and maybe kill me to save the kid, or run over the kid to keep me safe?
steveo3002 said:
what about a mcdonalds bag laying on the road , often see these and take a chance that its empty and go over it or straddle it , will the car tell the difference between a paper bag and large rock? will they drive around pot holes ?
Maybe I'm a luddite (although I'm allegedly an intelligent person with a scientific background) but I really can't see a flawless driverless car system in the UK, far too many variables for current processing power to cope with without some serious glitches with life threatening consequences.Perhaps I'm looking at it in the wrong way or I'm missing something?
I think there will ALWAYS have to be a human sat behind the 'controls' to over ride the system in certain scenarios.
One thing to consider is that once we get fully integrated driverless cars and road networks, which are able to communicate with each other, we could envisage such an efficient system that speed limits could be reduced to say 20mph in city centres, thus reducing the severity of any accident.
It would probably not impact travel times too much given you'd be more likely to maintain a 20mph average speed than you would be today, even with 30mph limits.
It would probably not impact travel times too much given you'd be more likely to maintain a 20mph average speed than you would be today, even with 30mph limits.
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