Would you trust a self-driving car?

Richard Deeming

Not if it's based on this dataset: Self-driving car dataset missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians[^]

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W Balboos GHB

I really want to say no - but the quality of driving I see as the next generation gets behind the wheel makes me think: "I would trust it to by mandatory for these new drivers" - since they're way too dumb and self-involved to share the road with others - and they drive that way (it is their road, isn't it?).

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OriginalGriff

Go to QA. Read a couple of hundred questions. Self driving cars? You'll never use a bank, airplane, or mobile phone again ... :sigh: TBH: compared to the quality of driving you get from trained, licenced, apparently legal drivers I suspect that a self driving car that drove itself into a tree one trip out of a thousand would be preferable company on the roads. It won't get drunk. It won't read the paper, text its mates, perform sex acts, disappear to have a rummage in the glove box, or just have such an intense chat with a passenger that eye contact is essential for minutes at a time. It won't let itself out on the road if it has a serious car defect, or if it's been disqualified, isn't insured, or - possibly - even stolen. It won't drive the wrong way into traffic to get away from the police, it won't deliberate drive though pedestrian areas, it won't drive 10cm from your rear bumper because it's in a hurry - if it does, it's talking to the car in front and savign road space and energy. Persuade me that all human drivers are better than that, before you try to prevent self driving cars ... In a generation, manual driving will probably be frowned upon like drunk driving is today, and will almost certainly be illegal.

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musefan

Eventually I will. They will suss them out I am sure, and even if accidents do occur it will still be a lot less then the current idiots on the roads cause.

CPallini

Might be. As a matter of fact, I trust more the self-driving metro than the human driven one.

Mike Hankey

I'll just agree, if I say any more I'll get started and there's probably a limit on the length of a post. I'll just say; without their phones they wouldn't/couldn't survive!

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Abbas A Ali

Would you trust a self-signed certificate?

Lost User

Given the sort of questions and sample code I see in QA, then no way.

Kris Lantz

While I certainly enjoy manual driving, the move to self-driving vehicles simply has more pros than cons. Generations to either side of me are the worst drivers, so I want those safety risks removed. :-\

Jorgen Andersson

Trust it? Emphatically no! Use it? Maybe. Problem is that computers are really stupid. machine-learning-confronts-the-elephant-in-the-room[^]

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Johnny J

Well, if you don't send them the codez they ask for, it's really your own fault! :doh:

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Sander Rossel

Mandatory xkcd which was proven in Iowa last week: xkcd: Voting Software[^] Now imagine our actual lives depended on it... :~

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Lost User

Have you seen my code? X|

Mark_Wallace

Why are you asking me? Ask my chauffeur.

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jeron1

No, :elephant: no.

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dandy72

If *all* cars were suddenly self-driving, we might have a chance of making it work. But as long as there's a mix of human drivers and self-driving cars on the same roads at the same time...the self-driving cars are in a difficult position to account for the stupidity of the human drivers.

Maximilien

not until all other cars are self driving cars.

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Lost User

Maybe if they carved slots in the roads.

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Rick York

My answer is not yet.

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