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Old November 1st 18, 03:18 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Default Driverless cars

On Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 12:32:18 AM UTC-7, John B. slocomb wrote:
The news today has an article stating that Waymo, the robotic car
company created by Google is poised to attempt a major technological
leap in California, where its vehicles will hit the roads without a
human on hand to take control in emergencies.

"The regulatory approval announced on Tuesday allows Waymo's
driverless cars to cruise through California at speeds up to 104.6
kilometers per hour". Or about 65 MPH.

See
https://www.bangkokpost.com/auto/new...s-to-hit-roads

The article goes on to say that "Waymo's cars with safety drivers have
been involved in dozens of accidents in California, but those have
mostly been minor fender benders at low speeds."

cheers,

John B.


As I've written here before - self driving cars do not have the ability to EXPECT problems and take them into account. So if they are to be safe they have to be programmed to be too safe and they must drive slowly. If they are driving at 65 mph it won't be long before the company is sued out of business. Tesla has just been sued yet again for their "autopilot". The owner said that he only used that function so that he would not have to pay 100% attention to the road. Tesla claims that you are supposed to be in control of the vehicle all of the time but that is NOT going to make it passed a jury since "autopilot" has connotations of NOT having to pay attention 100% of the time.
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