Posted on 11/08/2017 2:58:35 PM PST by lowbridge
Las Vegas is the first city in America to have a self-driving shuttle operating in real-time traffic.
However, in its first hour of service in downtown Las Vegas, the shuttle collided with a semi-truck. There has been no report of injuries at this time.
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-PJ
Stevie Wonder saw this coming.
No surprise
What could go wrong?
Bwahahahaha
“God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers.”
Here’s the part everybody will ignore:
The driver of the truck was cited by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
almost anyone could have foreseen this
So the question of the hour would be: would a shuttle with a driver have been able to avoid the collision? Granted, the human was at fault in this case.
I’d rather be in the hands of engineers than in the hands of lawyers and politicians.
Shuttles with drivers crash. People don’t go crazy when that happens. Certainly I’m not happy to hear that a driverless vehicle crashed, but one huge difference between a human crash and a robotic crash is that with the robotic crash, engineers can learn from it and prevent it from happening again. With a human driver, each one has to learn to drive from from a knowledge base of zero and when one makes a mistake it can’t be fixed or prevented in all the others.
“... the crash was caused by the truck backing into the shuttle at the time and was a result of human error, with the driver of the truck cited.”
From what I’ve read, driverless are are involved in a higher than average number of accidents. But the human drivers are almost always at fault from a legal standpoint. Most likely this is because the driverless cars don’t give off the same subtle cues as human drivers.
“Shuttles with drivers crash”
Not usually within the first hour on the job. You can ride with one if you want, I won’t.
truck driver probably purposely did it, since truck drivers see driverless cars as a massive threat.
I’ve taken rides in them. It is really amazing to take the ride. The ones I have been in were very slow.
Don’t ascribe the blame to Engineering, for it was Marketing that foisted this upon the world.
The human is always at fault.
The robot is never at fault, nor cited. Welcome to the new robotic age of deceipt.
The average driverless, robot vehicle has 83 accidents.
Robot driving records are ignored. The State wants you to rent your car, and darn it, it will happen.
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto!
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