Watch this self-driving car park itself...

[cherokeeprogressive]

right underneath the pedestrians. Apparently, the anti-pedestrian-killing feature costs extra, and these people neglected to pay for it. Self-driving trucks you say? I'm thinking... maybe in a generation or two?



It's kinda graphic.

[DawgHouse]

1. Maybe she meant to do that, like Christine n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Ha. The part we didn't see is where the dent left by the guy's forehead pops out all by itself. n/t

[Humanist_Activist]

3. First, its supposed to be testing pedestrian detection, and second, that's not installed..

on this car, hence the accident.

So basically they tested a car for a technology that isn't present in the car in the first place. Where's the radar in the grill?

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. I know, right?

I mean, what could go wrong?

"I'm not gonna stand in front of it, YOU stand in front of it."

"I'M not gonna stand in front of it, YOU stand in front of it."

"I know, let's get Mikey!"

"Yeah!"

[Humanist_Activist]

5. The point being that the fault in this situation is human error, not machine malfunction.

So your claim that this means true self driving is a generation or two away is false. First, the technology in question is already sold in luxury cars and SUVs and is trickling down as a safety feature in more modest vehicles as well. And second, we already have fully autonomous cars on the road now, they are still in the experimental stage, we can improve the accuracy of the sensors, but hese are issues that can be resolved in a few years, not generations.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. When this technology is fully embraced, do you think any of it will be hackable?

Human error is the root cause of ALL the world's problems.

[Humanist_Activist]

7. Anything with a computer in it is hackable, the question is how robust the security can be...

and whether its worth it for someone to hack it.

With failsafes and executable lockdown, partitioned userspace and system files, along with possible encryption of communications and filesystems and you can minimize the threat. This is no reason to not move forward with such technologies if they can help greatly reduce the amount of road deaths due to accidents every years. In 2013, 32,719 people died in car accidents in the U.S. We have to find ways to reduce that number further.