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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 03:52 | |
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GfK |
I always said this ’’driverless car’’ cobblers had ACCIDENT written all over it Linkage
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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 03:52 | |
steve_ancell
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Same here, this really does define the saying: "the motor is running, but there's noone at the wheel!"
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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 04:10 | |
cyangames
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"From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses (and other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of vehicles, and we hope to handle situations like this more gracefully in the future." -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also! |
| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 04:16 | |
spinal
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To be fair, there was an actual person sitting behind the wheel who decided to let the car pull out into traffic. the accident was just as much down to human error than any other traffic accident. -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage! 
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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 04:35 | |
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steve_ancell
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I would rather sit in an RS Turbo, in the middle of London, with a 10 year old at the wheel than trust a Google car. 
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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 04:42 | |
Jayenkai
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Accidents are bound to happen, whether human or CPU based. They're just lucky that, so far, nobody's been injured.
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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 04:44 | |
rockford
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AS Spinal said the human passenger was also at fault, but to add that he also expected the bus to slow, so an accident would have occurred if it had been him driving and not the car. I expect accidents to occur - it's still very much experimental with a huge majority of nutters on the road. Even a computer can't predict human nature 100% of the time with 100% accuracy. The cars have already clocked up millions of miles, meaning many thousands of hours of driving without ANY at-fault issues. That's better than pretty much EVERY human driver. |
| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 05:32 | |
Dabz
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Nor, what happened was the cars OS was using Vista and Google decided to drop support of it mid drive!  Dabz -=-=- Intel Core i5 6400 2.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB), 8Gig DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 64bit
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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 05:38 | |
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Jayenkai
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Thank god it wasn't Win-ME.. Could've been disasterous!!!
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| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 06:20 | |
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GfK |
 AS Spinal said the human passenger was also at fault These are supposed to be DRIVERLESS cars. They should be able to operate safely even if they are completely empty, which, clearly they can't. It's all very well saying "we thought the bus would let us in" - since when did bus drivers do "considerate"? The car should have catered for the unashamed stupidity of bus drivers, and it just didn't. Hence, crash. |
| Tue, 01 Mar 2016, 16:29 | |
therevillsgames
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I would rather all the cars were controlled by a machine than the mindless idiots which are driving around now!
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| Wed, 02 Mar 2016, 01:21 | |
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rockford
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^^ THIS The google cars have clocked up millions of miles over thousands of hours with only ONE accident caused by them. I'm pretty sure that that is much better than the majority of people could caim. People on the roads are idiots. And I bet the Google cars even know what an indicator is - 99% of people don't seem to. 
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| Wed, 02 Mar 2016, 02:09 | |
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spinal
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I remember a while ago they were testing some sort of augmented cars with sensors that wouldn't allow you to get too close to other cars, when a whole bunch of them were on the road (or probably test track) it resulted in much smoother driving, less needless acceleration/breaking etc. I think in 50-100 years, when the majority of cars on the roads will be mostly driven, or at leases augmented by computers, there will be far less traffic issues, from jams to loads less accidents. Just need people to accept the idea. -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
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| Wed, 02 Mar 2016, 02:14 | |
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GfK |
Yeah, if the world was 100% automated vehicles, there'd likely be virtually zero accidents. But the world isn't like that. There are still Audi drivers. Horrible, balding tossers with an erectile dysfunction, who think the speed limit is a "minimum", driver everywhere in broad fucking daylight with their foglights on, never use their indicators and have their suit hanging in the back window on a coat hanger. |
| Wed, 02 Mar 2016, 02:47 | |
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Jayenkai
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It's a transitional period, and judging from the number of None-Self-Driving cars that are out there, it's going to be one hell of a long time before we get to even a 50% augmented driver amount. It'll take decades!!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Wed, 02 Mar 2016, 03:24 | |
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rockford
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Rome wasn't built in a day. We'll get there. Maybe not in our lifetime (judging by how decrpit/old/ill we all are on this forum ), but it is the future.
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