Posted on 02/14/2020 4:55:44 AM PST by Moonman62
Maybe that's what the customers like. Also, are they getting a free ride as part of the experiment? I'll bet they'd like that, too!
I doubt it is free.
“I liked that we didn’t crash. Oh! I also liked that we didn’t run over and kill any bicyclists.”
The article mentions paying riders. I missed it on the first reading.
“Any landing you walk away from is a good landing,” as I say after a ride with a teenaged driver.
Red Barchetta
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Cars driven by people kill hundreds of people every day.
They are not driverless. “a driver in the front seat “.
No thanks. I am not going to sit in the “driver’s” seat while a program takes control of my car, watching and waiting for the cursed computer to buzz and flash lights telling me that there is a situation it can’t handle.
If I had been driving we wouldn’t be in that situation.
Automation can work in a controlled situation in which nothing unexpected happens. There is no street or highway anywhere in the world where nothing unexpected happens.
My Mama was right in naming me Thomas. I doubt this rosy story. I see one possible hole in this story. 100,000 rides taken, without an incident or injury; but with a driver at the helm in case something went awry. If there ever WERE an incident in which the driver had to intervene to prevent damage or injury; do you think Lyft would confess and tell us about it? The REAL test will be when the cars truly ARE driverless. I’ve had computers since 1988. Don’t TRY to tell me that in 100,000 trips, the computers in those cars never had a hiccup. JMHO.
I’d be willing to accept a fairly high level of risk for crashing to avoid having to inter-act with most Vegas taxi drivers. I’d still fell safer.
Wait until your self driving car doesnt want to go where you program it to go.
“Take me to RNC Headquarters.”
“Sorry, Dave...”
Show me the robust set of requirements and design, and then the actual testing that shows compliance to those requirements.
Appealing to mass, uninformed opinion does not make anything safe. By “uninformed”, I mean the people have no specific knowledge of the self-driving system.
Smart cars...smart everything...what could possibly go wrong?
But how fast do the cars go? Autonomous travel is easy at low speed.
(I work at a company that makes sensors for autonomous vehicles)
Though the cars are driving themselves, all of these rides have had a driver in the front seat in case something goes wrong....
So what’s the point? They’re paying a driver anyway, why not just let them drive?
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