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QUESTION: Would you take a ride in a driverless vehicle?
Talk about it.
NO!
I have take waymo. It is expensive than Lyft or Uber. The future is robotaxi because Tesla is joining the revolution; and Lyft is testing its driverless cars in Texas.
Nope – tech isn’t there yet … too many examples of failures still
Currently the WAYMO cars have an attendant in case anything goes wrong. They’ve been testing these for awhile and last year made them available to the public for use. However, I don’t have use for one at the moment. Might be handy for someone who lives around here and gets stuck on jury duty because they could get to the court house and back without dealing with crappy downtown Martinez parking (which wouldn’t be bad if they would ever build a garage for the jurors).
Yes, I like AI although it can be a double edged sword like anything else in technology. It’s the world we live in.
According to Forbes, Artical titled Under The Hood Of Autonomous VehiclesAccess to robotaxis is steadily expanding. Just this month, Waymo and Uber opened an interest list in the Uber app for riders in Austin. Despite their growing presence, the majority of people don’t fully understand the different levels of automation in autonomous vehicles (AV) and most see them as a black box that, for all intents and purposes, work through magic and witchcraft. For AVs to continue building public trust, more must be shared to educate consumers what lies under the hood of autonomous vehicles. High-level architecture explaining the inner workings of AVs is explained in their article.
High level architecture for autonomous vehicles. In the article, items in green, are inputs and those in blue are outputs…
Green – Censors, GPS, Destination and High-Def Maps
Blue – Perception, State Estimation, Planning & Prediction and Control.
No, I problems enough being a passenger.
Sure, why not? I wouldn’t own one because I am not interested in a car that has a computer
with so many electronic sensors that have the potential to malfunction without warning.
However, as long as I or some other competent driver is sitting behind the wheel, yeah I’d
go for a spin, it would be exhilarating and entertaining.
Operation of driver less vehicles is only as good as those writing the code. From experience machine vision is well advanced as is precision distance measuring equipment.
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Worked with ten software engineers over 30 plus years. Would trust only two to write code to fly an airplane. Worked with a couple software engineers I wouldn’t trust to automate a flush toilet.
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No long ago was in an Uber, dash video display showed computers interpretation of surrounding driving environment. Was surprised at lack of ability to recognize conditions accurately the first time around.
Not ready for prime time!
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We’ve seen several incidents where software operated vehicles had trouble figuring out nonstandard conditions, such as parked emergency vehicles with red flashing lights parked on a freeway blocking lanes to protect first responders.
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‘Driver Dies On I-680 After Hitting Firetruck That Was Blocking Lanes Due To Previous Collision – 4 Firefighters Also Injured’
https://tinyurl.com/mr264v3m
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‘A Fleet of Confused Self-Driving Cars Stopped in the Middle of a Street for Hours’
https://tinyurl.com/5n6kwumw
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One question, I still have not gotten an answer to,
When a self driving vehicle’ computer freezes up,
does the windshield turn blue ? ? ?
NEVER!
NO…the ones I saw in San Francisco were easy to spot in traffic…they were using their turn signals!
That’s a negative, over.
I would try one, as I hear the tech is amazing. I see the Waymo cars all over the place in SF. I don’t like them, I prefer to drive, and the paranoid side of me is concerned that these are a devious plan to eventually get all cars off the road (part of the 15 minute city plan). But yes, I would at least try one.
No, and not in the near future. I wouldn’t ride in a pilotless aircraft either.
No.
However I do see many driverless vehicles on the road everyday.
Any time a driver is staring at their phone, the vehicle is driverless.
Not voluntarily.
But sometimes
Needs must
When the devil drives.
Pun intended.
Yes. I have before and probably will again if the need arises. Self driving cars are much safer than people think and probably safer than having a random person drive you. Of course most people are fear mongered by the news into believing that they are not safe and they are the cause of accidents. The news companies don’t report the hundreds of accidents that happen daily due to incompetent and/or careless drivers, but they always report if a self driving car is involved. Do some research if you have only gotten your information from the news. They are paid to get people to watch and believe what they want them to.
You have just summed up the liberal media.
It’s not news, it’s media.
Big difference.