cossynut2

There are quite a few scenarios with a driverless car which I wonder how they will respond. How will it know when you are waiting to come out a side road and a kind person flashes their lights to let you out? If you are on a narrow road with very limited passing places and the person coming towards you flashes their lights to allow you to pass as they have pulled in ? If you are on a narrow road with cyclists in front of you how will it know when to overtake them? A machine cannot make choices to help other road users by being helpful. Human interaction when driving cannot be replaced by a machine and I think there will be problems in the future as more of these become main stream vehicles.
What are your thoughts?

Caddyshack

You have raised some very valid points. How will it decide to stuff itself in a hedge to avoid hitting a small child that falls off a bike.

Caddyshack

I have radar cruise on my car, in France it is fantastic as the roads are quieter and people drive well. On the M25 it seems to jump on the brakes a little early. I think driverless cars will be mega cautious

Ridgey

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They shouldn't be allowed.
And anyone that thinks they are a good idea is a cock

Glenn_

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What I wanna know is who will be insured the owner of the vehicle who isn't driving it??????

Caddyshack

I think the owner will be in “overwatch” in our lifetimes so the buck will stop with us.

BigChuck

There was a documentary on this point a while back, was quite scary to think the car will make the decision on who it will hit in a crash situation. Essentially it would decide on the least worst outcome and go for that.

RichieST

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Would it favour the passengers of the car, or what it was going to hit? So would it have a head on with a truck and kill the occupants, or swerve and run down 50 cyclists that are spread across the road, but the driver survives?

Caddyshack

I would want my car to favour my family and not the insurance company.....brings a new meaning to stage 3 chipped

BigChuck

there were cases where it would save the pedestrians/ cyclists and sacrifice the car and it’s passengers. The artificial intelligence was scanning and identifying each hazard and calculating the least worst option.

if I remember correctly, there was one situation where the only option was to hit two pensioners or hit a parent and child. The car chose to save the parent and child.

I’m sure they did lots of surveys putting people in the situation of choosing the the most favourable outcome, then used that info to rank the hazards.

BigChuck

Can see this being an option for companies offering remaps, the usual 30% power increase, dpf removal, high/low boost, Kill pedestrians not passengers

cossynut2

How will "driving tests" be carried out for someone who buys a driverless car as their first car? If the driverless car knows all the road signs ,road layouts, speed limits etc will the highway code rules no longer need to be learnt? Will there be a new class of licence for people owning a driverless car. Will being over the alcohol legal limit still apply if you are not driving the car? All of this new technology is of course assuming that computers in the car to enable it to work will never ever have any problems!! Scary stuff!!!

visa_broke

about as safe as this



If idiots want to be lazy and not drive then get the damn bus and let the rest of us enjoy the empty roads

Glenn_

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Lazy idiots drive on the roads now cause the cookers can't drive properly and don't use there indicators.