Thread: Autonomous Vehicles

'Uber should be shut down': friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice

'Uber should be shut down': friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice | Technology | The Guardian

Presumably many of you blokes often look for some eye contact, or other indication (hand gesture), to ensure that another driver has seen you and has some level of understanding of what you are about to do in traffic. I know I certainly do... in many different kinds of road situations.

How do you get a nod, wave, eye contact confirmation of a safe move - from an autonomous vehicle?

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Originally Posted by tact

I have only taken uber rides a couple of times in the past year and the quality of the nut behind the wheel left me in fear of my life on each ride.

You compare autonomous vehicle negatively with the "average human". The skill/attitude of few uber drivers I have experienced take that kind of comparison to a whole new low!

And, of course, no taxi driver has ever made you feel like that?
At least with Uber you can rate the driver, unlike taxis.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

'Uber should be shut down': friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice

'Uber should be shut down': friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice | Technology | The Guardian

Yep! Let's all operate on knee-jerk reactions, shall we.
So only friends who are killed by Uber drivers have the right to be outraged?
Why not react the same way over every road death?

Originally Posted by tact

How do you get a nod, wave, eye contact confirmation of a safe move - from an autonomous vehicle?

The same way other modern personal robots are built these days, with a display screen out front, a loud speaker etc. The Japanese are undoubtedly on the job of adding cartoon faces to their autonomous cars.

Originally Posted by donh54

And, of course, no taxi driver has ever made you feel like that?
At least with Uber you can rate the driver, unlike taxis.

Not in Australia or NZ. No doubt there are poor taxi drivers around, even in ANZ, however - I do a lot of fly in/out business travel in ANZ and reckon my taxi/uber ratio is 100/2 in the past year. Thats 100 good rides to 2 scary as ****!

I'll stick to taxis or self drive rentals. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Homestar

No, won’t happen. Even with the odd disaster it will still save 1000’s if lives overall so it is inevitable. We are already happy with autonomous trains in many parts of the world so it will come, it’s only a matter of time. Sooner you get used to it, the better off you’ll be.

Our work already has a draft policy saying that they will go to autonomous vehicles when they can as it will be safer than us driving them around ourselves.

Can’t wait.

Yup put them rails, no problem. Not autonomous though.