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Sad, it was bound to happen at some point especially if the safety driver is falling asleep as shown here. I'm not sure why someone was walking their bike crossing the highway at night either though.
Still i will venture to say as a pedestrian its your own job to make sure you are safe crossing a road, not least in a place like this.
They are in an area licensed for testing autonomous cars, you have to test them at night as well as day to find out if they are safe to be licensed everywhere else at night. If you allow testing of autonomous cars in your neighbourhood then you should expect a few deaths while the systems are being developed.Maybe autonomous cars should be limited to daylight only driving for now at least in the beginning.
Maybe they should be banned altogether.Maybe autonomous cars should be limited to daylight only driving for now at least in the beginning.
I can't believe you wrote this!If you allow testing of autonomous cars in your neighbourhood then you should expect a few deaths while the systems are being developed.
The testing will be declared a success if the autonomous cars can be shown to cause fewer deaths than human drivers would have. You can't expect zero deaths.I can't believe you wrote this!
You can't expect zero deaths.
I can't believe you wrote this!
Maybe one day it will be a legal requirement for all cars to be autonomous so that they can't have any accidents, but are you going to make the bicycles autonomous too so that humans are totally removed from the equation?Not unless you remove humans totally from the equation.
Even in factories where robots and a large level of automatization have gone on a long time we often hear about a human getting in the way of these machines.
Thats why those are normally fenced in in those places.
I suspect you might enjoy taking advantage of the fact that they will be guaranteed to give way to you since they must avoid accidents while you can take the risk! Even if you don't take advantage, many people will and the accident rate will not drop until there are almost no human drivers left....i for one know that i will not enjoy driving my car on the road alongside cars with no human driver, i do think that alone will lead to stress and accidents in the future.
With the automated cars of the future unable to crash, i wonder if they will start cutting into the weight adding safety features of current car design to make future cars get better MPKWH. ( Miles Pr Kilowatt Hour )
When they dont crash why have such silly heavy and expensive safety features like in current cars. ?
I would dare them to try it, the car wouldn't last more than a few hours.I"m ok with allowing testing in your neighborhood.
What do you mean I can't? Of course I can! What kind of twisted mentality is that? What are we now, guinea pigs?You can't expect zero deaths.