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Topic	How do you feel about SELF-DRIVING CARS?
Sahuagin 01/13/18 2:11:55 PM #111:	Kyuubi4269 posted... Sahuagin posted... How does it choose a good speed? What about when you know a particular road is wet and snowy and particularly slippery? Does it know to brake early and gently? What about going face-first downhill with a big load in the back? What about an extremely steep road that's coated in a thin layer of solid ice? It knows these things, yes, common environmental factors are surprisingly easy to sense and counter with all the equipment running well. Of course if a sensor goes down then it'd be more dangerous than a personally-driven vehicle. I don't know... the reason I mention these is because I've been in these situations. There are times when I can barely make it through a situation, and I have a very hard time believing that a computer in my car could manage it. What about when: all that's in front of you is solid white snow, even though you know under the snow are five highway lanes, and all you can do is guess where the lane is, go slow, and all try to carefully drive in makeshift single-file order even though no one can see the road. The steep down-hill on skating-rink conditions with a heavy load in back turned out to be nearly impossible to survive. I was going like 40 kph, and just touching the brakes lightly to slow down was enough to send my back swinging around, causing me to spin across four lanes and into the ditch on the far side of the road (luckily it was like 3am and no one else was around). I got my car out and then almost immediately had the exact same thing happen when going only ~32kph, but I didn't completely wipe out that time. Or the steep hill covered in solid ice. This was a death trap, and I could only imagine what would happen to someone who slipped on the sidewalk, because this was like three blocks of houses at like a 30 degree incline covered in a thick layer of solid wet ice (frozen rain). Not only that but the bottom of this street goes out onto the highway for some reason and there's no other way out but to climb the hill. I think I might have skipped this street on the ice day (or walked on lawns or something), but on the worst days I had to climb that hill spinning my tires going like 1 kph. So yeah, I don't really see auto-cars being able to handle these situations that I can barely, or can't even, handle. --- *The truth basks in scrutiny.* http://i.imgur.com/GMouTGs.jpg http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png <cite>Sahuagin posted [p:893974087] in How do you... [t:76194092]...</cite> <quote><cite>Kyuubi4269 posted...</cite> <quote>Sahuagin posted... How does it choose a good speed? What about when you know a particular road is wet and snowy and particularly slippery? Does it know to brake early and gently? What about going face-first downhill with a big load in the back? What about an extremely steep road that's coated in a thin layer of solid ice? It knows these things, yes, common environmental factors are surprisingly easy to sense and counter with all the equipment running well. Of course if a sensor goes down then it'd be more dangerous than a personally-driven vehicle.</quote> I don't know... the reason I mention these is because I've been in these situations. There are times when I can barely make it through a situation, and I have a very hard time believing that a computer in my car could manage it. What about when: all that's in front of you is solid white snow, even though you know under the snow are five highway lanes, and all you can do is guess where the lane is, go slow, and all try to carefully drive in makeshift single-file order even though no one can see the road. The steep down-hill on skating-rink conditions with a heavy load in back turned out to be nearly impossible to survive. I was going like 40 kph, and just touching the brakes lightly to slow down was enough to send my back swinging around, causing me to spin across four lanes and into the ditch on the far side of the road (luckily it was like 3am and no one else was around). I got my car out and then almost immediately had the exact same thing happen when going only ~32kph, but I didn't completely wipe out that time. Or the steep hill covered in solid ice. This was a death trap, and I could only imagine what would happen to someone who slipped on the sidewalk, because this was like three blocks of houses at like a 30 degree incline covered in a thick layer of solid wet ice (frozen rain). Not only that but the bottom of this street goes out onto the highway for some reason and there's no other way out but to climb the hill. I think I might have skipped this street on the ice day (or walked on lawns or something), but on the worst days I had to climb that hill spinning my tires going like 1 kph. So yeah, I don't really see auto-cars being able to handle these situations that I can barely, or can't even, handle. --- The truth basks in scrutiny. http://i.imgur.com/GMouTGs.jpg http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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