Thread: Autonomous cars- we are not there yet clearly!

To be fair, a Tesla isn’t an autonomous vehicle and the driver of one should always be ready to take control of the vehicle.

And yes, we are not there yet - we are many years away from a truly autonomous vehicle,

Even Boing cant get itright, what chance has Hyundai got?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Even Boing cant get itright, what chance has Hyundai got?

Aren't we lucky LR don't make planes,or for the matter autonomous vehicles....

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Even Boing cant get itright, what chance has Hyundai got?

Flying a plane is a much simpler task than driving a car. The reason that it is usually considered more difficult is that the consequences for any error tend to be much more serious - and if in doubt or confused you can't slow down or stop.

Despite the disparaging comments you see about the average driver, statistics show that on average a driver will travel around a million kilometres between serious accidents (serious being fatal or injury). In fact, most drivers are a lot better than this,because a substantial part of the statistics is contributed by repeat offenders.

This suggests that for us to be confident that an autonomous system will be better than the average* human driver, it will need to be tested over around a million kilometres.

Easy you say? 100 cars over 10,000km? A big effort, but doable.

But there is a catch. The software to achieve this will contain perhaps more than a million lines of source code, and it is likely to depend on dozens of sensors of one type or another. Change a single line of code or a a single sensor, and you are starting a new experiment.

* Isn't the claim that autonomous cars will be better than the average driver?

(Oh, and yesterday in a 20km drive I hit a roo. It is very hard to see how an autonomous vehicle would have managed to avoid this - I was driving about 70kph on a road with scrub right to the edge of the graded road, about 2m from the LH edge of the road, when a roo travelling at about the same speed came out of the scrub to the left and tried to cross in front. Fortunately it was a small one and was struck by the front and rear axle housings. I was still lifting my right foot off the throttle when it hit.)

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Flying a plane is a much simpler task than driving a car. The reason that it is usually considered more difficult is that the consequences for any error tend to be much more serious - and if in doubt or confused you can't slow down or stop...............

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Too right I know a commercial pilot for one of the big airlines, and he reckons the planes can fly themselves, don't even need a pilot, the reason he's there is because the paying public would not get in a plane if they knew there was no pilot.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

But there is a catch. The software to achieve this will contain perhaps more than a million lines of source code, and it is likely to depend on dozens of sensors of one type or another. Change a single line of code or a a single sensor, and you are starting a new experiment.

* Isn't the claim that autonomous cars will be better than the average driver?

(Oh, and yesterday in a 20km drive I hit a roo. It is very hard to see how an autonomous vehicle would have managed to avoid this - I was driving about 70kph ...when a roo travelling at about the same speed

That's one fast roo!

I presume that an autonomous vehicle would, in that situation, play it safe by driving at far less than 70kph along that road.