When a Tesla Model S was involved in the first fatal crash while Autopilot was activated, Tesla wrote in a blog post that the Autopilot system did not notice "the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied."
The fatal accident is still under investigation by government regulators, but that one sentence doesn't bode too well for Tesla. It shows that despite how far autonomous technology has come, there are still some situations that are better handled by human drivers.
That's not to say human drivers are perfect — more than 37,000 people die in the US each year from car crashes, according to the Association for Safe International Road Travel. As many companies working on driverless cars have noted, having autonomous vehicles on the road could drastically reduce that number.
But for that to happen, driverless cars still need to improve in some key areas.
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2 comments:
I wouldn't even ride in a car with that feature. They can be hacked and crashed, they can get confused and crash, and how will they be driving when they are 10 years old and computer hardware starts going up?
I can tell you one thing for a fact. Uber and Lift and the others are treating their drivers horribly and the dark secret behind the whole program is that as soon as automated cars are legal all drivers will be canned. They can do this because their software can study the movement of all the drivers routes learning the logistics and road locations. Also it will give them more than enough time to perfect their applications ordering process and how to track meta data to position cabs near locations where demand is expected to peak.
Imagine if they were to be hacked when they have 30 or 40 thousand cars on the road and they all slam on the brakes, or worse the gas(battery) pedal all at once.
I don't think I would care for a driverless car but from what I've seen they probably are better than 75% of the driver driven cars.
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