After the first self-driving car fatality the problem of moving along in a tin box at 70 mph reminds one of the inherent dangers of traveling at speed. Yet if mankind was ever meant to operate a car will drunk, it had to be while asleep in a self-driving car.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-hy-tesla-google-20160701-snap-story.
About 10,000 people were killed while driving under the influence in 2014, and there were 200 fatalities of children who weren't driving. Tesla, G.M. and others will work out bugs eventually, yet sooner is probably a better way to reduce fatalities on the road than later overall.Making a car that doesn't allow tobacco smoking would also reduce deaths-though in an unrelated field (lung cancer etc.).
http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
Tesla blamed the car's inability to distinguish the white color background a truck the car crashed into as the reason for the accident. Human drivers fall asleep, have heart attacks, strokes and seizures while driving, and making innumerable driving judgment errors leading to accidents-especially in passing. If self-driving cars can be proven to be statistically safer than human drivers that may be good enough.
Yet it may be the cognitive psychologists will need to test the cognitive abilities of the automotive AI systems of self driving cars-an interdisciplinary project to see where their blind spots are. I personally would not want to ride in a self-driving car on the Alaska highway in January anytime soon.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-hy-tesla-google-20160701-snap-story.
About 10,000 people were killed while driving under the influence in 2014, and there were 200 fatalities of children who weren't driving. Tesla, G.M. and others will work out bugs eventually, yet sooner is probably a better way to reduce fatalities on the road than later overall.Making a car that doesn't allow tobacco smoking would also reduce deaths-though in an unrelated field (lung cancer etc.).
http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
Tesla blamed the car's inability to distinguish the white color background a truck the car crashed into as the reason for the accident. Human drivers fall asleep, have heart attacks, strokes and seizures while driving, and making innumerable driving judgment errors leading to accidents-especially in passing. If self-driving cars can be proven to be statistically safer than human drivers that may be good enough.
Yet it may be the cognitive psychologists will need to test the cognitive abilities of the automotive AI systems of self driving cars-an interdisciplinary project to see where their blind spots are. I personally would not want to ride in a self-driving car on the Alaska highway in January anytime soon.
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