The safety driver wasn't looking, so you can't avoid asking if humans would have been able to see the pedestrian, this is a big change from previous when companies were trying to prove the tech is
better than human drivers, and that's not good for public confidence.
The fallout from the accident could stall the development and testing of self - driving vehicles, designed to eventually perform far
better than human drivers and to sharply reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities that occur each year.
Self - driving vehicles promise to be
better than human drivers at avoiding injury for both passengers and pedestrians.
Autonomous vehicles should only have to be moderately
better than human drivers before being widely used in the United States, an approach that could save thousands of lives annually even before the technology is perfected, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
Based on current facts, the Google car doesn't seem a lot
better than human drivers 2.
The fallout from the accident could stall the development and testing of self - driving vehicles, designed to eventually perform far
better than human drivers and to sharply reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities that occur each year.
Not exact matches
Additionally, self - driving car technology will be so
good that these robotic automobiles will posses driving skills that «will be indistinguishable from
humans except that robot
drivers will be safer and more predictable
than a
human driver with less
than one year's driving experience.»
In October 2016, Tesla announced that all vehicles in production, as
well as the forthcoming Model 3, will be built with an updated hardware suite, equipping each Tesla with the hardware needed for full self - driving capability at a safety level substantially greater
than that of a
human driver.
I, too, believe the oceans might
well be a primary
driver of climate change, but whether the
human / nature ratio is 50/50, or less, or more
than that is up for debate.
How much attention is a «
driver» supposed to give to what the vehicle is doing, and what responsibility does the «
driver» have to take over if the car appears to be doing something wrong, especially when the reaction time of the car is much
better than a
human's, and it may be too late by the time the
human figures out something is amiss?
These autonomous vehicles can limit
human error, increase fuel efficiency and decrease emissions, simply by being
better drivers than their
human counterparts.