Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
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#2I kind of wonder how Google's driverless car handles the situation in extremely populous cities such as Shanghai or HongKong.
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#3While this is very encouraging, the TC article is also very misleading. For example: "There have, of course been some accidents that involved Google’s self-driving cars in the past. All of these, however, happened while humans were in control of the cars." - isn't this far more likely to be the case, since the human only takes control when the car can't figure it out?
Also, who's commute doesn't involve temporary construction signs?
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#4This was the easy part.
The hard part will be fighting the technophobes when somebody drives into the side of one of these and kills themselves. I don't envy being in that battle.
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#5It's probably a bit misleading.
The car is pretty eye catching: http://www.vibe.com/sites/vibe.com/files/styles/main_image/p...
So it gets attention...and most accidents happen when people don't pay attention.
Once these become more common, it won't be a huge deal, so people will stop noticing them and accident rates will go up. Probably not by much, since you'd eliminate most of the driver caused accidents
Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#6While this is very encouraging, the TC article is also very misleading. For example: "There have, of course been some accidents that involved Google’s self-driving cars in the past. All of these, however, happened while humans were in control of the cars." - isn't this far more likely to be the case, since the human only takes control when the car can't figure it out? Also, who's commute doesn't involve temporary con…
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#7It's probably a bit misleading. The car is pretty eye catching: http://www.vibe.com/sites/vibe.com/files/styles/main_image/p... So it gets attention...and most accidents happen when people don't pay attention. Once these become more common, it won't be a huge deal, so people will stop noticing them and accident rates will go up. Probably not by much, since you'd eliminate most of the driver caused accidents
You are suggesting human's will run into it more often right? I sincerely doubt we will see too many autonomous-car-at-fault crashes. The blacked out Lexus SUV's I saw at a Google event a few weeks ago were very discrete minus the velodyne sensor. If it adds an credibility I was on a team at the Victorville final in 2007. :)
As an aside, I've been waiting to buy my Google car for 5 long years. During this time I've become so disenfranchised with day to day driving that I avoid it at all costs. Commuting via roads in a car is such a mundane task that is, in my opinion, a solved problem. Bring on the autonomous cars!
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#8I kind of wonder how Google's driverless car handles the situation in extremely populous cities such as Shanghai or HongKong.
That's part of what I'd like to see more.
- scalability cases : many many moving obstacles.
- reversal cases : gCar behavior if a vehicle is misbehaving.
What happens ? can they compute a safe avoidance path ?
if not but with impact still being detected in advance
by the system, can there be a pre-protection system ?
- systemic cases : how 2 gCars react to each others, any oscillatory patterns ?
computing a path using the same heuristic leading to
avoidable collision. With more than 2 ?Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#9It's probably a bit misleading. The car is pretty eye catching: http://www.vibe.com/sites/vibe.com/files/styles/main_image/p... So it gets attention...and most accidents happen when people don't pay attention. Once these become more common, it won't be a huge deal, so people will stop noticing them and accident rates will go up. Probably not by much, since you'd eliminate most of the driver caused accidents
You are suggesting human's will run into it more often right? I sincerely doubt we will see too many autonomous-car-at-fault crashes. The blacked out Lexus SUV's I saw at a Google event a few weeks ago were very discrete minus the velodyne sensor. If it adds an credibility I was on a team at the Victorville final in 2007. :) As an aside, I've been waiting to buy my Google car for 5 long years. During this time I've b…
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Re: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
#10I kind of wonder how Google's driverless car handles the situation in extremely populous cities such as Shanghai or HongKong.
In the city, when there're many pedestrians on the roads, I would expect from autonomous car to drive slower and stop in case of pedestrian spotted (human drivers are smarter, but they usually violate speed limits and have worse reaction time)