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Today’s question:
If you had to ride inside one today, would you feel comfortable traveling in a self-driving vehicle?
Talk about it….
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No.
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Early adopters of self-driving technology and buyers of self-driving vehicle features are naive, ill-informed, and place too much faith in technology itself.
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They can be the guinea pigs for those with healthy skepticism.
Apple and Google are both working on self driving cars.
Personally I don’t think I want to ride in a car without Windows.Apple and Google are both working on self driving cars.
Personally I don’t think I want to ride in a car without Windows.
If the operating system is Windows, it’s sure to crash.
Windows with manual cranks so you can escape if needed. 🙂
I would only ride in it if it had an override button.
Not today, no way. They’re not even close. Today they’re at level 2 autonomy but I do think they will get there maybe 10-20 years, and I do think it’ll be many times safer than human drivers.
Willing to try it and then find out how/what I feel or think.
If you survive!
@ Ignatz ~
You make it sound like I would be doing a road trip.
Won’t a Car Dealers allow a test drive?… like a few miles only?
Yes, I would survive.
Not going to happen.
No
but I’m a bad passenger in any car
Me too
No. I’m not a very good passenger when another human is driving. I like to be involved and in control when I drive. I don’t like automatic transmissions, cruise control or other driver aids (backup cameras are nice to have though). I recently drove to LA and back and never used cruise control, which is usually the case. If I do use cruise control, it’s usually only after about 3 hours and then for 5-10 minutes to flex my knees.
Not right now – maybe after it’s been rolled out mainstream and they’ve worked out the kinks
Only if I was behind the wheel. That way, if something goes wrong, I could quickly take control. I would never risk my life, or the lives of others, by placing my trust in a computer. Computers in motor vehicles can malfunction. Business, government, NASA, and home computers malfunction all the time, and they are vulnerable to hackers. Even websites are prone to crashes. Maybe someday computers will be 100% foolproof, but until then, I don’t trust them.
No,
we have some at work and they get off track all the time. And are pretty banged up!
In 100 years they still will not perfect a self driving car. Everything man has made has failed at one time or another, electical grids, computers, cars, buildings and bridges collaspe just to name a few.
Not yet.
Hurray! Take away the steering wheel I’m a terrible driver. Make it so I can go
No. I have a Tesla and auto-pilot is fine in open roads. When you add bad and distracted human drivers to the mix auto-pilot gets shaky. Until 90% of the vehicles on the road are auto-pilot I don’t see this being possible. Human create conditions the auto-pilot can just not account for yet…to be fair, humans aren’t the best at navigating the roads either.
Humans are too emotional and physically challenged, auto-pilot and AI will have forever young sensis when perfected. We are almost there!
I would.
As long as I could stop the car should there be a concern.
No, I would not feel comfortable given the stories such as the cameras being confused by reflections of the sun off the side of a truck and crashing. At least once a week I see a situation that I do not believe a computer could handle from road repairs and tree trimmers to stuck red lights.
Current engineers are not that smart nor enlightened enough to build a really good and safe self driving car. They just think they are.
Some of you probably remember the picture of a family traveling cross country in a self driving car while playing a board game. It was either on the cover or on one of the pages of a popular news magazine of the day in the 1950s. Of course these days the family would be each looking at their smartphone instead.
I would as long as the car doesn’t turn into 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine.
This afternoon I saw a Tesla enter an intersection deep in the yellow-light which had turned red before the car was half way through the intersection. As Tesla uses how humans drive as part of training their automated driving system I suspect we will see fully automated Tesla vehicles also blowing through late in the traffic signal light cycles.
At present, vehicles can’t read signs and follow directions. For example, on westbound Ygnacio Valley Road next John Muir Hospital is a sign that says “Stop here on red” with an arrow that points at a white line. A Tesla won’t stop there and instead it stops at the crosswalk. Eventually, if enough humans stop at the line then Tesla’s automation may learn where it too is supposed to stop. See https://goo.gl/maps/hkfgNurRHWdPjMxx5 for the sign and line.
Further to the west are signs, prohibiting for example, right turns from northbound Walnut Blvd to eastbound Ygnacio from 4pm to 6:30pm each weekday. An automated vehicle can’t read those signs.
I still don’t understand why Tesla vehicles keep driving at full speed into the back of emergency vehicles stopped on a roadway.
No!
Especially after seeing one crash after it was trying to avoid a paper bag blowing across the road and crashed into a bus instead.
(Anything human would have chose to hit the paper bag instead of the bus)
Never
Only trust myself in the end.
No, I would not feel comfortable.
Ever have your computer lock up, error out, lose connection or get hit with a virus? Very frustrating but in a self driving car it can be deadly.
You have to take proper care of your ottopilot:
https://youtu.be/WMhYl74vw2c
No, I would not be comfortable riding in a self driving car. As many above have stated, computer issues can occur at any time, many circumstances that occur cannot be programmed to react appropriately. On the paranoic front, I would be afraid any car with google tech would collect as much data it could on me as I sat there. Plus, I really like driving.
I was an Army intelligence officer in 80’s working for the Data Systems office at Ft Huachuca. There were two groups, AI and Wargame. I was part of the Wargame team. The person in charge of the AI group assured me that “AI was 3 years away” and it has been 3 years away ever since. I attend an AI talk by a Berkeley PhD prior to COVID and he assured the group AI was 3 years away 🙂
Well I’ve ridden in a car my grandmother drove and I think k AI surpassed her best driving about a decade ago.
The big problem I see is who and how you hold people accountable when self driving vehicles kill pedestrians? Even if they run over less people per mile traveled than human drivers do, we’re all going to be angry when elementary students get run over.
No would not feel comfortable. When l worked at Stanford Shopping Center Google had a robot “walking” around the center, it was dome shaped and about 5’8 or so. Occasionally it would get itself in a corner and didn’t know how to get out. One day it ran into a 2 year old boy, the boy was hurt, not seriously, but needed medical attention. The robot was never seen again.
It would depend on who wrote the software algorithm.