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Dutch_12078
Jan 16, 2018Explorer II
Hiking Hunter wrote:
I wonder what a driverless vehicle does when it's GPS system says "turn right in 20 feet" and there's a corn field there?
A system is only as strong as it's weakest link!
Apparently Google's (now Waymo) autonomous cars manage those issues quite well. With over 4 million testing miles, and billions of miles of simulations, I'm only aware of one very minor (2 mph) fender bender while in autonomous mode while on a public roadway at around the 1.5 million mile mark. And even then, the test driver said he would have done the same thing the car did in the same situation.
I really believe though, autonomous vehicles won't approach 100% safety until all vehicles are autonomous and able to communicate with each other.
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