«Today's automation systems augment, rather than
replace human drivers.
The researchers involved in the project insist that the objective is not to
replace human drivers but to give them smarter cars — smarter cars that will indulge your optimism bias while keeping you out of trouble.
Other companies are studying the economics of using automated driving systems to
replace human drivers in taxi or ride - hailing services, including Uber Technologies (uber) and Lyft (lyft), which is collaborating with General Motors (gm).
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.
It will surely start
replacing its human drivers as soon as its technology is ready — later in this decade.
The operating theory is that by
replacing human drivers, autonomous technology will drastically reduce vehicular injuries and fatalities.
So the potential outcome if it proves impossible to program driving etiquette into autonomous cars is that
replacing human drivers simply doesn't happen.
Not exact matches
And during the years after that, we'll see both self - driving cars and cars with
human drivers on the road, as the former gradually
replaces the latter.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are putting the finishing touches on their version of a driverless car that, they say, lays the groundwork for computers to
replace humans in the
driver seat within a decade.
For example, automated drones may
replace most
human delivery
drivers and self - driven short - hire vehicles could make taxis increasingly redundant.
But as far as the question of accountability and liability goes, we might already be homing in on an answer, one that points to a shift in how the root cause of damage is assessed: When a computerized
driver replaces a
human one, experts say the companies behind the software and hardware sit in the legal liability chain — not the car owner or the person's insurance company.
The present is an array of sensors and software designed to help a car assist — not
replace — a
human driver, and even then, only in limited circumstances.