you're talking as if current self driving cars don't already have systems built in to brake when something unexpected is on the road in front of them
if anything I'd trust a machine that can keep track of everything around it simultaneously at all times and react to it in mere milliseconds more than a human behind the wheel that could panic and fuck up extremely easily
The real problem is when something bad is going to happen anyway.. should it save you the person who is jumping in front of it or probably other cars+passengers by avoiding extreme brake manoeuvres ..
Self driving cars are as predictable as a car can possibly be as it cant be drunk and it wont break the law, it will always use its turn signals. Honestly once the tech is perfected if you get hit by one thats on you.
Th transition period where self driving cars have to share the road with human drivers will be the most difficult. Once we get over that hurdle, it will get much easier.
Imagine intersections with no traffic lights. Cars just coordinate with each other and pass at full speed only feet apart.
I agree. Having robo-cars and and human drivers share the road will be a bit of a mess. While it would be rather expensive, it’d be ideal to separate the two. Imo, there is a substantial amount of traffic generated by human negligence, failure to follow traffic rules, and just pure selfishness.
I’m so ready to have a computer chauffeur. I like a good road trip as much as the next person, but I could do without the monotony of driving for hours on end.
Neural networks will sort that out. The infrastructure nearly exists. Humans are by design fallible, we'll soon witness the benefits to oursource decision making at city level. Bmw and audi drivers are screwed, their cars will have to think about others!
I had a collie mongrel who did this and it freaked out drivers so much when he'd wait on the central island, that they'd generally stop and let him cross.
That good boy/girl knows that it's a rolemodel and there might be kids around, so obviously he/she ain't gonna break the law and teach the kids to bad habits. With great power comes great responsibility.
I once watched a cat cross 9 lanes of traffic at an intersection (3 lanes, 3 times) while I was waiting for the light to turn green for me. The cat crossed with the lights!
yes, i’ve also seen a lot of them doing that too. i was actually wondering where this was recorded (pretty sure now its são paulo) until the man spoke bc never heard about dogs doing that outside of brazil lmao
So dogs are better than wives.
If you lock your dog in the trunk of your car with your wife, when you open the trunk 3 hours later, the dog is happy to see you.
Now we see that they are better and safer at crossing busy streets. That does it. I'm getting a dog.
The science is the same as it is here in india, they either learn to cross or get run over. Those that do are probably smarter than those that don't and therefore intelligence gets kind of selected for.
I was walking home late one night and crossed a main road. No word of a lie, there was a fox waiting at the crossing for the lights to change. He crossed in the green man as I live and breathe 🥰
People saying dog has seen some shit not entirely true,
I use to walk my grandparents dog and at the top of their street was a busy motorway, and as part of the walks we did was too cross that road, each day stopping at side of the road and waiting for the light to go green, then crossing... one day i became distracted and wasnt paying attention walked up to place where we crossed walked onto the road the dog stayed put the leash pulled tight i looked up the dog stopped me walking into traffic cause the light was red.....another time also disracted stopped at the lights yhe dog crossed the road and pulled me out onto the road because he noticed it had gone green before i did.
We never intentionally taught him this he just figured it out himself, may have happened here too, this doggy may have just been like well this is what humans i do ill do that too
To make this all the more impressive, dogs do not see color as well as humans do. This means that dog learned some other way of knowing when it is a walk signal and don't walk (left vs right, less obvious distinction of hues, illuminated symbols, etc.).
this probably belongs r/nostupidquestions but sent dogs red green color blind? how do they tell? or is it just by the light flashing on changing spots?
I like how he checks too to make sure the car stopped 🥺