metalbender
Veteran Member
The scenario would be hilarious up here in snow country. Four wheel sideways slide on a slippery street, oops, does not compute. A snowdrift accross the road, easily navigated by a driver, obstacle for all the sensors.
The scenario would be hilarious up here in snow country. Four wheel sideways slide on a slippery street, oops, does not compute. A snowdrift accross the road, easily navigated by a driver, obstacle for all the sensors.
Don't forget to add in dirt roads and local roads with no painted lines,
snow covered roads with no lines visible.
The scenario would be hilarious up here in snow country. Four wheel sideways slide on a slippery street, oops, does not compute. A snowdrift accross the road, easily navigated by a driver, obstacle for all the sensors.
Don't forget to add in dirt roads and local roads with no painted lines,
snow covered roads with no lines visible.
Something that also shouldn't be "forgotten" is the possibility of each car "learning" its own neighborhood very very well, i.e. centimeter accuracy for the 99+ percentage of our driving that is on roads that we (or the automaton) have driven before.
I don't go barrelling down snow covered roads that I am not familiar with - or even the ones I know fairly well - and I certainly don't know any roads with centimeter accuracy.
Yes, the pathological case is venturing into the unknown in extreme conditions, but fail safe design SHOULD ensure that the vehicle either STOP and hand over control to the human or STOP.
At that point there MAY be a problem.
The vehicle may have gotten in too deep for itself, but WAYYYyyyy to deep for the human.
Two years later and Tesla still does not have Full Self Driving ready but it is 8x safer than a human driven car without the Tesla self driving features.I feel the current Tesla model is fatally flawed. The machine does all the driving -- except for the most challenging parts, where a human needs to be able to take over? Humans aren't built that way. The machine needs to be all or nothing.