The technology is improving, no question, but there's a reason the majority of companies have
human safety drivers behind the wheel.
The company first blamed one of
its human safety drivers, before it was uncovered in February that the problem was actually with the autonomous system itself.
The vehicle was in autonomous mode with
a human safety driver at the wheel when it hit the woman, police said.
Early reports indicate that
a human safety driver was at the wheel, and the car was in autonomous mode.
And later today, a Northern Californian startup called Udelv is demonstrating what it calls «the world's first public - road autonomous delivery test,» in which a self - driving van (with
human safety driver) will deliver goods from the high - end Draeger's Market chain in the Bay Area city of San Mateo.
A disengagement refers to an incident when an on board
human safety driver must seize control of the vehicle from the autonomous system.
Waymo has committed to launching the first fully - driverless taxi fleet - without
a human safety driver - in Arizona by the end of 2018.
A second video showed that, immediately before the accident,
the human safety driver, who theoretically is supposed to take over if the autonomous system fails, wasn't paying attention to the road and didn't appear to have his hands on the steering wheel.
The Uber vehicle having
a human safety driver was in autonomous mode when it struck the woman the Tempe police said in a statement, adding that no passengers were in the vehicle at that time.
The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with
a human safety driver at the wheel when it struck the woman, who was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk, the Tempe police said in a statement.
According to a new report from The New York Times, an autonomous vehicle from Uber struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona: The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with
a human safety driver at the wheel...
A human safety driver was behind the wheel at the time but Authorities have not publicly identified the victim yet.
Three days earlier, an Arizona pedestrian was killed by a fully self - driving car being tested by Uber with a ride - along
human safety driver, raising questions about whether automated technologies can be trusted.
Other footage showed that in the seconds before the accident,
the human safety driver behind the wheel was mostly looking down, not at the road.
Not exact matches
The incident raised questions about the
safety of systems that can perform driving tasks for extended stretches of time with little or no
human intervention, but which can not completely replace
human drivers.
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.
«Many [Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standards] contain test procedures that are based on the assumed presence of a
human driver, and will therefore likely need to be amended to accommodate vehicles that can not be driven by
humans,» the notice states.
Autonomous cars should be required to meet standards on their ability to detect potential hazards, and better ways are needed to keep their
human drivers ready to assume control, U.S. auto
safety and technology experts said after fatal crashes involving Uber Technologies and Tesla vehicles.
Since current self - driving
safety assurances aren't exactly airtight, Koopman argues that self - driving cars should be held to a way higher standard than
human drivers — say, 10 times safer than the average
human — before they're given the green light.
However
safety gets defined and established, self - driving and driverless vehicles will need ways to overcome the skepticism of
humans —
drivers, passengers, cyclists and pedestrians — by being more transparent, says Brian Lathrop, senior manager of the Electronics Research Lab at Volkswagen Group of America.
The thinking behind the decision, explains Erik Coelingh, Volvo's senior technical leader for
safety and
driver - support technologies, is that Autopilot will include so many redundant and backup systems — duplicate cameras, radars, batteries, brakes, computers, steering actuators — that a
human driver will never need to intervene and thus can not be at fault.
Human - machine interface, or HMI, covers a wide swath of
driver experience, from the way interconnectivity and
safety features interact with the
driver to the actual look, touch and feel of a car's interior.
Those of us who either consider the rapidly developing technology a good thing for
safety overall, or at least an inevitable thing, say no
driver,
human or otherwise, could have reacted in time to save Ms. Herzberg, who died of her injuries after she was taken to the hospital.
with only 124
human -
driver interactions, and the number of
safety - related disengages droppinh to 0.2 per thousand mile.
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In addition, the i - ACTIVSENSE range of advanced
safety features takes a
human - centered approach to helping the
driver recognize hazards in many of the driving situations they encounter on a daily basis.
IBM scientists have been granted a patent around a machine learning system that can dynamically shift control of an autonomous vehicle between a
human driver and a vehicle control processor in the event of a potential emergency, providing a
safety measure that can contribute to accident prevention.
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To be clear, insurance rates for
human drivers probably aren't going up so much as they will go down for users of cars with more
safety features (like self - driving).
Total vehicle automation obviously eliminates or lessens the need for a
human driver, thereby removing
human error from the
safety equation.
The Michigan Department of Health and
Human Services offers Alcohol Highway
Safety Classes (AHSC) to
drivers who have committed traffic offenses while under the influence of alcohol.
The
driver safety course seemed like it was written by a normal
human being, not just some DMV bureaucrat.»
It's still very early: Self - Driving Ubers have a
safety driver in the front seat because they require
human intervention in many conditions, including bad weather.
The head of the National Highway Transportation
Safety Administration, which is investigating the autopilot's performance in the collision, has called for such systems to demonstrate that they're at least twice as safe as
human drivers.
Since current self - driving
safety assurances aren't exactly airtight, Koopman argues that self - driving cars should be held to a way higher standard than
human drivers — say, 10 times safer than the average
human — before they're given the green light.
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google's parent company, reached an important milestone recently: since mid-October, the company has been operating its autonomous minivans on public roads in Arizona without a
safety driver — or any
human at all — behind the wheel.
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.
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