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Originally Posted by humdizzle
another problem is driving through a neighborhood... lets say a kid runs out in the street to catch a basketball. The car doesn't know whether it should avoid the kid or the ball...it can't make complex split second decisions like a human yet.
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This is the same argument posited by lazy clickbait journalists, it's the same thing as "dere takin' r jerbs".
The solution is the self driving car hits neither because it's traveling at a speed that allows the vehicle enough time to stop safely. It makes fewer assumptions and doesn't drive beyond it's vision, an important concept humans ignore constantly (especially enthusiasts on 'empty' roads). Because the sensor suite is much better at assessing it's surroundings than the human it will always react more quickly and it will always obey the rules instead of 99% of my neighbors who blow by the local playground at 30 mph.
I watched a great video about 2 years ago about a talk from some Google employees hosted that showed the video and sensor data, the things the car was recognizing, how it was thinking and following traffic etiquette and predicting the world around it.
I almost typed out all the highlights, but as it went on this video has covered just about everything in this thread and more, it's great if you've got an hour to spare:
Edit: 38 minutes is the 'tragic decision' philosophy question, 'which life will the car choose?'
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik"]Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016 - YouTube[/ame]
Here's a shorter TED talk, interesting stuff at 7 minutes:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiwVMrTLUWg"]Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road - YouTube[/ame]
All those videos of shitty drivers? I recognize all of those intersections, all of those terrible scenarios I've seen first hand. At 16 minutes in the first video? I drove across that intersection yesterday for the thousandth time and it's fucking awful, I see something stupid 1/3 times I go through there.
Will it be infallible? No, but it will beat the hell out of a human well over nine times out of ten.
But fuckdamn, increase the top speed on those jellybeans to 35 or I'm going start defacing them.