Sentences with phrase «than that of a human driver»

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.

Not exact matches

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

Nevertheless, Khosrowshahi remains optimistic about the future of the program, asserting that «ultimately, self - driving cars will be safer than humans,» but that right now, they're more like «student drivers.»

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.

Would anyone really say that those killed by computer - driven cars have been harmed more than those killed by the mistakes of human drivers?

She's confident because her team forecast a future — actually lots of different futures — where self - driving cars hit the road when they were 10, 75 or 90 percent safer than the average human driver.

He asks, «Will people accept a self - driving car that is safer than a human driver but that requires them to constantly monitor the automation in anticipation of the rare occasions when intervention will be necessary?»

Participants who read an idealized description of self - driving car ownership, in which the automation required little or no human intervention, were more accepting of self - driving cars than were those who read the more realistic scenario, which depicted a driver keeping close watch over the automation and occasionally needing to intervene.

Fifty - seven centimeters is not a great distance, but the fog produced for the study is far denser than any that a human driver would have to contend with; in the real world, a typical fog might afford a visibility of about 30 to 50 meters.

For starters, regulators will have to come up with a definition of «safe» — whether that means the machines must drive flawlessly or simply break fewer laws and get into fewer accidents than human drivers do.

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A new autonomous Audi RS 7, dubbed «Robby,» recently lapped California's Sonoma Raceway in 2 minutes, 1 second — a time that Audi says is faster than a human driver managed at the helm of the RS 7.

The driver aid tech is starting to show its age — particularly the brake - based, rather than steering - based, lane departure prevention system — but the QX80 still does a more than adequate job of keeping its human cargo safe.

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.

Yes, he wears a mask and can cut an imposing figure despite his lanky frame, but he's far more human than expected, Adam Driver bringing plenty of personality to the screen even when his face is covered.

Evidence that human activities are the major driver of recent climate change is even stronger than in prior assessments.

it would be both ignorant and arrogant to rule out something other than human GHGs as a long - term driver of our climate.

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.

Nevertheless, the idea that the sun, more so perhaps than humans, is the principal driver of terrestrial climate has been gaining ground in recent years.

Researchers estimate species are being lost at a rate at least 100 times faster than historical levels, with habitat loss, over-hunting and climate change just a few of the many human - caused drivers behind the event.

This is a subject I have been noodling around about for months: why is it that when there is a crash involving a car and a human, the driver of the car seems to be little more than a witness.

A study of coverage of the recent United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that the climate science community is more certain than ever that humans are the major driver of climate change.

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?

According to American Automobile Association (AAA), older drivers» fatality rates are 17 times higher than those for 25 - to 64 - year - olds, and it's mostly not due to bad driving — it's because of the human body's fragility in its ninth decade of life.

Tesla says that a diesel truck is 20 percent more expensive to run per mile, and that running an Autopilot - powered convoy of Semis is even more economical than transporting cargo by rail, while also being 10 times safer than having the vehicles manned by human drivers.

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.

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