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Self-Driving Cars' Shortcomings Revealed in DMV Reports (mercurynews.com)
A demand from the California DMV of eight companies testing self-driving cars has highlighted a number of areas where the technology falls short of being safe to operate with no human backup. From a report: All companies testing autonomous vehicles on the state's public roads must provide annual reports to the DMV about "disengagements" that occur when a human backup driver has to take over from the robotic system. The DMV told eight companies with testing permits to provide clarification about their reports. More than 50 companies have permits to test autonomous vehicles with backup drivers on California roads but not all of them have deployed vehicles.
It turns out that a number of the issues reported are shared across technology from different companies. Some of the problems had to do with the way the cars sense the environment around them. Others had to do with how the vehicles maneuver on the road. And some had to do with what you might expect from systems made up of networked gadgets: hardware and software failures. The disengagement reports themselves identify other problems some self-driving vehicles struggle with, for example heavy pedestrian traffic or poorly marked lanes.
It turns out that a number of the issues reported are shared across technology from different companies. Some of the problems had to do with the way the cars sense the environment around them. Others had to do with how the vehicles maneuver on the road. And some had to do with what you might expect from systems made up of networked gadgets: hardware and software failures. The disengagement reports themselves identify other problems some self-driving vehicles struggle with, for example heavy pedestrian traffic or poorly marked lanes.
so if I'm a self driving car with no backup operator, do I prioritize the safety of my passengers? if I have to run down 5 people to keep my rider safe, do I do that?
The car should run over the 5 pedestrians, then the litter of puppies across the street and finally drive off of a bridge. Bonus points if the horn sounds like a maniacal laugh or plays Dixie.
what if I have to do the whole run over your mother / a baby / a nun or run over a bunch of assholes? how are they ever going to solve for this, because whatever it chooses will be wrong
Run over my mother, sideswipe the baby so it goes airborne into a dumpster, and back over the 5 assholes. Preferably spinning the tires on their dismembered corpses. The nun is difficult. I'm not sure if it will piss off more people to hit the nun, or avoid her after all of the other carnage.
You're right, some situations are difficult. Oh wait, avoid the nun and run a bus full of orphans off of a cliff. That will probably piss the nun off to. Problem solved.
So the self driving cars act just like an inexperienced millennial who can't drive a stick or read a map, and texts constantly?
I'm sorry but autonomous cars should never need a connection to an Active Directory server.
How else will cars know who is and isn't an authorised user? Are you honestly suggesting we use OpenLDAP instead... what's next, Sendmail to replace the CANBUS?
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.