Autonomous cars and the real road
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From CP newsletter https://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?ntag=19837496582598984&_z=2928472[^] A study that they did based on California data that compares accidents versus autonomous and humans. Autonomous was better except is two cases. Although 'turning' was one of those which seems kind of important. But at any rate I would think in California you are going to want to know how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
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From CP newsletter https://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?ntag=19837496582598984&_z=2928472[^] A study that they did based on California data that compares accidents versus autonomous and humans. Autonomous was better except is two cases. Although 'turning' was one of those which seems kind of important. But at any rate I would think in California you are going to want to know how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
They can't work in an open environment.
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From CP newsletter https://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?ntag=19837496582598984&_z=2928472[^] A study that they did based on California data that compares accidents versus autonomous and humans. Autonomous was better except is two cases. Although 'turning' was one of those which seems kind of important. But at any rate I would think in California you are going to want to know how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
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From CP newsletter https://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?ntag=19837496582598984&_z=2928472[^] A study that they did based on California data that compares accidents versus autonomous and humans. Autonomous was better except is two cases. Although 'turning' was one of those which seems kind of important. But at any rate I would think in California you are going to want to know how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
jschell wrote:
how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
Unlike human drivers, an autonomous car wouldn't go into a panic. But then, it might get itself burnt to a crisp before a human does. I'd be more impressed seeing autonomous cars doing well in a snowstorm, or after a heavy snowfall. I guess there's not much of that sort of testing going around in California.
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jschell wrote:
how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
Unlike human drivers, an autonomous car wouldn't go into a panic. But then, it might get itself burnt to a crisp before a human does. I'd be more impressed seeing autonomous cars doing well in a snowstorm, or after a heavy snowfall. I guess there's not much of that sort of testing going around in California.
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jschell wrote:
how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
Unlike human drivers, an autonomous car wouldn't go into a panic. But then, it might get itself burnt to a crisp before a human does. I'd be more impressed seeing autonomous cars doing well in a snowstorm, or after a heavy snowfall. I guess there's not much of that sort of testing going around in California.
I had a surreal snow driving experience one time. Driving on probably 20cm of packed snow on a four lane highway. It felt like driving in an open field. The highway was fine. The exits/sorties were the scary part; you had to interpolate between support columns. People were driving at a glacial speed. Even the locals all stayed home for that, it was just the crazy tourists on the roads. Not sure how an automated car would proceed.
