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This.
My car already does this (without being able to remove your hands for more than 10 seconds) and it's great. It keeps a much safer distance to the car in front than 90% of human drivers, maintains impeccable lane placement and reacts more quickly than I can to emergency situations.
I too welcome the robot driving overlords.
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"the driver is not permitted to use their mobile, fall asleep or conduct any activity that takes attention away from the road."
That'll be a fucking novelty for 90% of British drivers then.
I wonder who'll be the first to claim the Darwin award after gaming it with fake eyes on their eyelids for a nap...
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But then we'll have a legal test
Well yes. But what is the issue with that? There are additional complications but that's how the law works.
If I buy a new car and the brakes spontaneously fail due to a manufacturing defect who is responsible?
If I fail to maintain my car and the brakes fail as there are no pads left who is responsible?
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I find it really good for the low limits, here we have lots of 20 zones
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RCN vote on pay offer closed this morning, suggestions are that they voted no. Other unions still voting, but RCN is biggest.
A lot of people quite angry with the union leaders, particularly Pat Cullen, and think that this should be the end for their leadership. The junior doctors have had far better messaging.
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Self driving cars have already killed a number of people. The whole enterprise is a folly. AI models are not capable of making split second decisions that humans can make, and whilst it might work in some situations, it is a long, long way from being able to work in many common situations, i.e. any urban environment.
Car companies are shit at writing software, as are most semiconductor companies. Given that most of the efforts in this area are coming from those two sectors, the expectations should be low.
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I think there is a potential problem with people pulling into the fairly large gap that is left, meaning quick deceleration and minor panic, and compensation driving and braking.
I’d like to see how self driving car logic resolve problems such as changing lane to overtake someone going at 50mph, which someone storming down the faster lane at 90mph.
I assume it would be programmed for the safest possible solution, which is to stay 3 car lengths behind the 50mph driver until they finally turn off. -
Like humans then
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In heavy traffic i knock the gap down to 1 second to avoid people cutting in, way too short for human reactions but this is the gap most seem to drive at in congested traffic. Given the number of measurements a second being taken and the car reacting quicker than me even noticing a change in speed by the car ahead I’m happy to trust the robot overlords with this. It also allows me to focus my sight further up the road for what might develop rather than the bumper of the car in front.
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In 2015, Volvo announced it would accept liability for its cars when they operate in self-driving mode. That’s likely to be the way the market develops.
About 80% of RTAs are driver error, the consensus in the insurance industry is that self drive will produce a significant drop in accidents.
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California man goes to prison for threatening to bomb Merriam Webster offices for gender-inclusive definitions.
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Interesting that this article from the BBC suggests Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTN's) are pitting neighbour against neighbour - as though the rat running twats speeding through quite residential streets in their bloated 4x4's are not in any way involved:
Acliff
Soul
hippy
PhilDAS
skinny
hugo7
GoatandTricycle
neu
c00ps
jellybaby
andyp
dubtap
JonD
Ramsaye
marcomarcos
itsbruce
Jingle_Jangle
pifko
eskay
mashton-
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Given the 10 emergency response vehicles on the M3 this morning attending what looks like someone who ran off the side of the road down an embankment, I welcome Skynet to our cars.
Pissing with rain and a good number of cunts don't even bother turning their lights on, slowing down, etc. I'll take automated motorway driving over humans and a side of chips please.