Here's another reason, you may have seen it already.
There are going to be a non-trivial number of corner cases that will fake out autonomous vehicle situational awareness. This one is a false lane departure alert, triggered by a combination of shadows and repaving artifacts. The actual lane marker is the yellow line in the lane barrier's shadow. If the car were autonomous, would it have reacted in error?
Basically, fewer people will die in accidents as a result of autonomous driving. I do believe that. But it will be a different set of people than would have died without it. That will take a lot of legal wrangling to work through.
> we stepped out of the car to take a photo, leaving the keys in the car, and this super capable intelligent car locked us out!
Somewhat off topic, but this is what I dislike about most products designed so far in the third millennium. "cool", "sexy" approaches to simple problems often provide little value, make the user feel inert, pointless, and out-of-the loop. They make every user more vulnerable to emerging circumstances.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 13.2 ms ] threadThere are going to be a non-trivial number of corner cases that will fake out autonomous vehicle situational awareness. This one is a false lane departure alert, triggered by a combination of shadows and repaving artifacts. The actual lane marker is the yellow line in the lane barrier's shadow. If the car were autonomous, would it have reacted in error?
http://imgur.com/a/KnsXU
Basically, fewer people will die in accidents as a result of autonomous driving. I do believe that. But it will be a different set of people than would have died without it. That will take a lot of legal wrangling to work through.
Somewhat off topic, but this is what I dislike about most products designed so far in the third millennium. "cool", "sexy" approaches to simple problems often provide little value, make the user feel inert, pointless, and out-of-the loop. They make every user more vulnerable to emerging circumstances.