Driverless cars are designed to cut down on dealings accident , but that has n’t stopped human - driven car from crash into them anyways .
The California DMV justpublishedall of its driverless railway car accident reports online — low - stop number , pocket-size buffer - curve ball , with human error to blame . But there is a common thread besides human dumbassedness in the reports : Driverless carscan be overly conservative .
In traffic condition where hoi polloi are used to more aggressive traffic , the clash in driving styles could make conditions for fender - bender like these . And these fortuity report highlight how that can happen . In an April 2015report , a driver bumped into an automated Google car after the driverless gondola total to a stop while “ creep forward ” on a correct turn , because it detected another vehicle near the intersection point .
dead stop is what computers do when they smell a threat , while human drivers may simply speed around the corner . And people used to drive alongside other people are n’t necessarily develop for the copiousness of circumspection used by automated drivers .
That ’s something Google is already working to correct , as the Wall Street Journalreportedlast month :
The cars are “ a little more conservative than they demand to be , ” Chris Urmson , who leads Google ’s effort to develop driverless cars , told a conference in July . “ We are endeavor to make them push back more humanistically . ”
I eagerly await the driverless cars equipped with a petite robot hand for giving the finger during upsurge minute .
[ TechCrunch ]
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