so, lets ban cars, its safer not to have them clearly

true

Let's ban humans

They cause all troubles

Ban motorcycles too.

I think hindsight 20/20 says that that person would have gotten hit pretty bad either way, in the shadows, etc.. I'm not sure how much a human behind the wheel would have changed an awful lot.. maybe a bit, maybe none.. And this coming from someone that's not really keep on autonomous driving anyway, because I think its so new technology that it will be years if not decades to reach mass working

We'll just invent teleportation.

Yeah, I do think there is this push for automated driving when our current infrastructure isn't ready for it yet.

just don't let uber of all companies try stuff like that, would help.

I guess 'prevent' was a bad choice of word, but at the same time it is kind of possible. Like, if the street were more well-lit, if she didn't walk across the street at that exact moment or just looked, if the guy was paying attention and not on his phone, etc.

Although, on the other hand, what is the point of cars that drive themselves if you have to pay attention to your surroundings anyway?

If you make something "idiot proof" the universe will just invent a better idiot

One of the points is to be a passenger and be able to do other things while on the road.

Other than GPS purposes because you don't know your way around an area, having to pay attention to your surroundings and being alert on the road in a self-driving car is pointless. There's no reason for it at that point.

and even then

gps is based on moving satellites

and vehicles

so a mis caclulation is quite possible

GPS is also inaccurate at a certain scale

yes

especially at the "this cna hurt a human if wrong" scale

Not even taking into account how frequently the maps need to be updated.

I was even going to say that

but the pedestrian wasn't exactly paying attention themselves, it just becomes natural selection anyway at that point

Which was my very first point, yeah lol.
"Not crossing the street without looking?"

guess god didn't have a plan for her

the point of self driving cars is for them to have sensors that pick up things that a human driver would miss and act accordingly which makes traffic safer. or you could be uber and have no clue what you are doing.

i don't quite understand why people are so against Uber testing out self driving cars. Is it just because they are a shitty company? because while i believe that, i don't see how uber is any different than say a start up. You'd have to look at the money and structure of that part of the company to say they are not really equipped from making that

Tim I think you're naive to think that there isn't anyone at Youtube that thinks they're doing the right thing regarding removing the guns videos or being dumb in general

i dont trust them to be responsible with anything

Well, fair enough. But I mean, I don't trust Google any more with self driving cars.

I don't think we're ready for self driving cars

they aren't ready and humans will get complacent expecing them to be 100%

which is why the person in the uber car didn't react.. wasn't paying attention

google is more concerned with their image than uber.

@LotheronPrime did you watch the video? I don't think I would have reacted quickly enough to grab the wheel.

@Grenade123 yeah look earlier, I said I'm not sure how uber can be at fault here

I'd say Ubers only failure is not being better than a human there. And while there is probably some improvements that could be made, I think any self driving car that doesn't preform worse than a human in any given instance should get the go ahead.

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