Because of the link, I put it here. It might belong in Roadkill, or (if discussion becomes too contentious) elsewhere.
The first fatal crash involving a self-driving car has happened. The story isn't clear on how fast the car was going, but implies it was pretty fast (came to rest a few hundred feet down the road, claim that it sheared off a telephone pole a quarter mile past the crash site). No indication of whether the truck was partially at fault (did he look to see if a car was coming?) or whether it was a "roll the dice" intersection (time for a car traveling at the speed limit to travel from where it first becomes visible to turning traffic until it reaches the intersection is less than the time for a loaded semi starting from a dead stop to make its turn and clear the intersection).
The DVD player in the wreck is a bad sign, considering Tesla's autopilot requires the driver to be alert with both hands on the wheel in case the system encounters something it can't handle and decides to switch off (in which case, what's the point of using it instead of driving manually?).
Autonomous driving systems having a "Jesus take the wheel!" fallback are a serious problem - IMNSHO, it's not to get the driver to handle a situation the computer can't, but to protect the computer's safety record by handing off to thescapegoatdriver once the computer's inability to handle the situation is too far gone for the human to be able to recover.
The first fatal crash involving a self-driving car has happened. The story isn't clear on how fast the car was going, but implies it was pretty fast (came to rest a few hundred feet down the road, claim that it sheared off a telephone pole a quarter mile past the crash site). No indication of whether the truck was partially at fault (did he look to see if a car was coming?) or whether it was a "roll the dice" intersection (time for a car traveling at the speed limit to travel from where it first becomes visible to turning traffic until it reaches the intersection is less than the time for a loaded semi starting from a dead stop to make its turn and clear the intersection).
The DVD player in the wreck is a bad sign, considering Tesla's autopilot requires the driver to be alert with both hands on the wheel in case the system encounters something it can't handle and decides to switch off (in which case, what's the point of using it instead of driving manually?).
Autonomous driving systems having a "Jesus take the wheel!" fallback are a serious problem - IMNSHO, it's not to get the driver to handle a situation the computer can't, but to protect the computer's safety record by handing off to the
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