MGF wrote:Personally I don't welcome them but I also believe they will do more for road safety than the AD organisations.
sussex2 wrote:Is there any evidence to suggest that these things could identify the range of hazards a human being is capable of?
Not just simple stop go ones but the more complex situations.
jont wrote:sussex2 wrote:Is there any evidence to suggest that these things could identify the range of hazards a human being is capable of?
Not just simple stop go ones but the more complex situations.Well, the evidence is the various driverless cars working their way around the USA. And the accidents stats suggests that humans are far from infallible. You also get some interesting side effects - such as cars communicating with each other (or roadside furniture). So if there's a sudden stop on the motorway in fog, the cars behind will "know" about it before a driver could see them.
jont wrote:MGF wrote:Personally I don't welcome them but I also believe they will do more for road safety than the AD organisations.
Only at the point the truly autonomous ones work well. In the meantime I think we'll see a rise in KSI figures as people get more and more reliant on technology that appears to work fine 99% of the time, but when it can't cope (or fails), the driver is so disengaged there's little chance of recovery.
sussex2 wrote:jont wrote:MGF wrote:Personally I don't welcome them but I also believe they will do more for road safety than the AD organisations.
Only at the point the truly autonomous ones work well. In the meantime I think we'll see a rise in KSI figures as people get more and more reliant on technology that appears to work fine 99% of the time, but when it can't cope (or fails), the driver is so disengaged there's little chance of recovery.
We are already seeing this in the airline industry; perfectly recoverable situations that pilots so tuned to automation are unable to deal with.
If this level of automation is to continue it'll be along and rocky road.
sussex2 wrote:We are already seeing this in the airline industry; perfectly recoverable situations that pilots so tuned to automation are unable to deal with.
If this level of automation is to continue it'll be along and rocky road.
sussex2 wrote: We are already seeing this in the airline industry; perfectly recoverable situations that pilots so tuned to automation are unable to deal with.
Horse wrote:sussex2 wrote: We are already seeing this in the airline industry; perfectly recoverable situations that pilots so tuned to automation are unable to deal with.
Any links to more information on this as a developing/worsening problem?
sussex2 wrote:Yes indeed air travel has become much more safe of late and part of this is due to automation. At least an equal part is due IMO to better training and supervision of the human machine. The modern aircraft itself is, like a modern car, much better built than those of decades ago.
I can envisage situations (probably quite a few if I put my mind to it) in which an automated car could become a hazard itself e.g. Someone mentioned the automated car 'seeing' others ahead in fog. What would the auto car then do? Stop and make a hazard of itself? Proceed with caution like a train with an amber light?
The technology is in its' infancy and to put it in perspective techno wise I can't even get a mobile phone signal in different rooms of my house
Plus and perhaps more to the point every single thing that has gone wrong with a certain car I own has been....due to technology!
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