Driverless shuttle involved in crash on first day of service in downtown Las Vegas
Source: News 3 Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) Las Vegas is the first city in America to have a self-driving shuttle operating in real-time traffic.
However, in its first hour of service in downtown Las Vegas, the shuttle was involved in a collision with a delivery truck. There has been no report of injuries at this time.
The driver of the truck was cited by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
The project has many people intrigued, wanting to see how the shuttle would work.
Read more: http://news3lv.com/news/local/driverless-shuttle-crashes-on-first-day-of-service-in-downtown-las-vegas
Back to the drawing board...
EarlG
(21,948 posts)"The autonomous shuttle was testing today when it was grazed by a delivery truck downtown. The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that its sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident. Unfortunately, the delivery truck did not stop and grazed the front fender of the shuttle. Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided. Testing of the shuttle will continue during the 12-month pilot in the downtown Innovation District."
brooklynite
(94,572 posts)forkol
(113 posts)it seems it did have human-like behavior. It sensed an accident, and tried to avoid it. What more do you think could have been done to avoid this accident?
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)there. I thought I did see it going backwards in the video, but I couldn't tell which end was the front, lol.
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)If drivers could respond better to external human behaviour, deaths and serious injuries could be greatly reduced.
Article says that 90% of traffic fatalities are caused by human error.
Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)My daughter and her millennial friends take driverless Ubers as often as they can. They actually feel safer than with a human only driver.
LisaM
(27,811 posts)or safer because they are physically afraid of the driver?
I have taken exactly one Uber (not my choice; I was on a vacation and that's what the friend ordered) and the driver was a flat out racist. It was awful
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Surprise, surprise."
I imagine the same was said in 1891, when Henry Wells of Massachusetts, driving his brand new gasoline-powered buggy, struck Ebeling Thomas.
brush
(53,778 posts)The passengers saw the truck coming towards them but there was no driver to tell to move.
Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)Or at least honked the horn to alert the truck driver.
Back to the drawing board for more sensors that warn other drivers.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Seems like a bit more engineering could fix that problem.
I'm still pretty skeptical, but I look around me and I see many many driverless cars. There are people sitting behind the steering wheel, playing with their phones instead of driving.
forkol
(113 posts)I was in an accident once where a guy ran the red light at the intersection, hit a SUV crossing the intersection, which caused the guy's car to veer off to the curb, the curb caused the car to turn, then it was heading straight for the front of my truck! Even though I saw the accident happen initially, I did not expect the car to veer towards me and as it started coming towards me I tried to put my truck in reverse, but with the shift on the floor, I was not able to do it fast enough to try backing up (and I also needed to check to see what was behind me so *I* would not cause an accident as well. He ends up hitting the front of my truck anyway.
There was just not enough time to react, and a horn blow in this case would have not helped in any case.
I don't believe that even if there were a driver, the passengers warning a driver, that the driver would have had enough time to focus attention, devise a countermeasure, and execute it in time to avoid the accident anyway.
brush
(53,778 posts)moving truck. Not even close.
An accident after just two hours on the job proves that they need to enter many more accident avoidance scenarios into the driverless van's computer system, including situations when the van is sitting stillperhaps one as simple as blowing the horn.
Not yet ready for prime time.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Warn the guy.
brush
(53,778 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Honked my horn when it's clear they don't see you. I think that is something the Robots can't do. Driving may be more intuitive than we think.
Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)If you see those front wheels just starting to turn, before the vehicle itself changes orientation, you can frequently get that extra instant needed to avoid running into someone turning in front of you.
bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)Edsel
The Nifty Fifty
Tech Stocks 2000
Entire computer on one chip
Laetrile
Defeat of USSR
General Motors could never go bankrupt
HRC 2016
Bernie Madoff
Enron
WorldCom
Mitts
Sears recovery
Shopping malls the safest bet in REITs
Trump draining the swamp
_________
So call me skeptical of
Driverless cars
Amazon taking over the world and retail in particular
KPN
(15,645 posts)😁
bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)Thanks!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Republicans are in charge. This is all on them.
KPN
(15,645 posts)... it's the humans!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)We should have listened then!
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)This whole business of driverless vehicles is being pushed to market because a small number of companies hope to reap big profits -- not because of the possibility of it doing anybody else any good at all.
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)moda253
(615 posts)In my day we didn't need moving pictures, in my day there was only one show in town and it was called STARE AT THE SUN! That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun til your eyeballs burst into flames! --that's the way it was and we liked it, we loved it!
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Self-driving vehicles, like many trends in automation, are a means to liberate corporations from having to hire people, and not much else. If we had a form of minimum guaranteed income, or at least minimum guaranteed standard of living, this would not be such a problem. But "progress" in the tech-finance context has come to be a matter of replacing paid employees by wholly owned machines, no matter what. Ironic that owning the labor force as property is being touted as a benign development.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)Driverless shuttle was hit by a careless truck driver.
brush
(53,778 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)The problem probably was that the shuttle didn't have a horn.
Something to add I suppose.