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Topic	How do you feel about SELF-DRIVING CARS?
Smarkil 01/13/18 9:44:16 PM #150:	Sahuagin posted... Smarkil posted... It's not like they're not working on that very issue. Google has a fleet of cars in Michigan right now for that very reason. They're trying to test for the different sorts of environments that they could encounter. k but... this is one of those things that's very easy to imagine working, like flying cars for example, but has a tendency to be very hard if not impossible to do in practice, or to perfect to a sufficient degree that it can be utilized everywhere. but then again... maybe it will be like cars and airplanes. it won't be foolproof and in fact horrible stuff will happen all the time, but we'll all accept it because of the benefits. It certainly won't be as 'safe' as driving under ideal weather conditions, but again it should be more safe than a human drivers. The second a drop of water or a snowflake hits the ground around here people flip their shit and there's accidents every 10 feet. I would wager that there's far more accidents in inclement weather from overcorrection than there are of people not being able to deal with the weather. As long as a car is moving with a constant speed and not making dramatic movements with the wheel, it's pretty easy to keep on the road. And as already stated, these cars are already pretty well versed at understanding traction. The only real risk is whether their sensors are being obscured. However, I understand they've put a lot of work into making their lidar detection be able to understand the difference between physical objects and snowflakes/rain. --- "We're not even close" - Romans building Rome at the end of Day 1 <cite>Smarkil posted [p:894002058] in How do you... [t:76194092]...</cite> <quote><cite>Sahuagin posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Smarkil posted...</cite> <quote>It's not like they're not working on that very issue. Google has a fleet of cars in Michigan right now for that very reason. They're trying to test for the different sorts of environments that they could encounter.</quote> k but... this is one of those things that's very easy to imagine working, like flying cars for example, but has a tendency to be very hard if not impossible to do in practice, or to perfect to a sufficient degree that it can be utilized everywhere. but then again... maybe it will be like cars and airplanes. it won't be foolproof and in fact horrible stuff will happen all the time, but we'll all accept it because of the benefits.</quote> It certainly won't be as 'safe' as driving under ideal weather conditions, but again it should be more safe than a human drivers. The second a drop of water or a snowflake hits the ground around here people flip their shit and there's accidents every 10 feet. I would wager that there's far more accidents in inclement weather from overcorrection than there are of people not being able to deal with the weather. As long as a car is moving with a constant speed and not making dramatic movements with the wheel, it's pretty easy to keep on the road. And as already stated, these cars are already pretty well versed at understanding traction. The only real risk is whether their sensors are being obscured. However, I understand they've put a lot of work into making their lidar detection be able to understand the difference between physical objects and snowflakes/rain. --- "We're not even close" - Romans building Rome at the end of Day 1</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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