Fully fledged self-driving technology appears to be perpetually just around
the corner. It is a promise that the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has made
almost every year since 2013. But in the real world, it is still an open
question whether level five self-driving automation is actually possible. We
will find out how close industry frontrunners have come to full automation and
assess the scale of the problems standing in their way as the technology behind
autonomous vehicles has proved devilishly hard to perfect. What are your
thoughts LiveTribers? Why have self-driving cars stalled?
when there's different types of cars, self driving car becomes more volunerable
- human are evil, bully will come to take over / intentionaly crash the self
driving cars. unless we get rid of all the non self driving cars or have a
single lane just for self driving car
I’ll stick to driving my vehicle myself! People are being replaced by robots
in a lot of ways these days. I don’t think I will take my chances on the
road…
unless we are use self driving, otherwise it will have drivers that are bullying
the self driving car - it's going to cost safety issues, more crime that the
incapable police can handle
I feel that way too. I think a lot of people are concerned about risks and as
far as owning a driverless vehicle goes, it would be a very expensive outlay.
It is a complex transition. These vehicles are controlled by AI-driven
technologies which are programmed to handle a certain range of predicted streets
and roads scenarios. Unfortunately, anything involving real time interactions
between one vehicle and another as well as with pedestrians (all sorts of people
walking, rushing, dashing out or wandering out) are not programmable. Then
interactions between vehicles and animals, wildlives....too many unpredictable
sudden situations beyond AI can predict. It is not safe. It is not safe when
some vehicles are AI driven while others are human driven. Self-driving
technologies suit and they are safe when the vehicles are running within a
'closed' areas or on a fixed rail. No sudden external unpredictable factors
disturb the AI programs.
In reality, only Microsoft or Google's own HQs have these. In Sydney, only Metro
line has driver-less trains but there are many issues involving the Metro.
Sydney's metro rail environment fits a typical AI driven self-less public
transport because the trains are running on enclosed environment with one way
direction. The station platforms are all glass-gates locked when there is no
train arriving. All human caused sudden unpredictable scenarios (such as
somebody tries to jump off the platforms or falls off the platforms) that
requires instant human reactions are ruled out. This is why so far the only real
life driverless public transport mode is applied at the Metro.
Oh no the mean machine can be a stress machine for the pensioner who wants to
get out and needs the assistance or a auto assistance car ... woo think of a
seasoned driver of past wanting to drive
Sydney metro is a driverless public transport mode. Depending on which Metro
station you are on, you may find human staff on the platform. So far I haven't
seen any wheelchaired commuter ( I am not a daily Metro communter but I take it
say 2-3 times a month during non-peak hours) using them. But I think just like
using trains and buses, if a person having special needs let the Metro staff
know in advance when and where he/she will get on and get off, they will help.
Metro trains have human staff patrolling the train cabins despite the trains are
driverless.
I think it's many years away until the technology is perfected. Even when it is,
there will still be issues of affordability, acceptance from the masses, and
issues of infrastructure.
I think it will take ages for people to trust the tech needed,( even for
electric cars the uptake is minimal as they believe there’s not enough
charging stations etc) let alone self driving ones. My sister has bought a
5month old Tesla and is always posting on Facebook about getting free charging.
I do like the idea of never having to buy petrol ever again.
Self driving cars sound like 'nirvana' in the field of transportation, however,
the complexities in writing code to make the system work is so difficult that
policy makers seem to have decided to put it on the backburner for now. It will
become reality at some point in the future.
Self driving cars are a dream that is worth waiting for. Once the technology is
fixed it will open up lots of possibilities and could make the roads safer.
Photos of paddocks full of battery dead electric cars in Europe do little to
enhance sales in Australia. Add to that the much greater distances required and
limited recharge stations and it is little wonder sales have stalled.
We have a long path to tread before the self driving technology will become
available to use by the everyday members of society like myself.
First the vehicles have to be manufactured at a reasonable price to enable
motorist's to purchase. Good luck with that when there is such a concern or
concentration with pushing the electric vehicle agenda.
Secondly the roads need to be constructed to allow for self driving vehicles to
safely operate.
Thirdly, the Government of the day will need to address the issue of lost
revenue from self driving vehicles never having accidents or breaking road
rules.
This is purely utopia in the minds of Elon Musk and his fellow disciples.
My internet drops out constantly, the power drops out constantly, the phone
glitches now and again, I don't trust these things to always work so why would I
trust a car to always get things right. I like to drive and pay a lot so that I
can. I don't want to not drive so why would I pay to not do something I enjoy.
Trust in the market and the technology surrounding it. people need to feel safe,
and companies aren't going to invest when consumer sentiment isn't headed in the
right trajectory
I think mainly because they have not yet really worked out legal liability for
deaths and accidents. Obviously computers should reduce the amount of incidents
on the roads but if your car kills someone would the car maker be liable?
Probably because many people still enjoy driving themselves and the automobile
manufacturers know that and so aren't putting in much effort into this idea as
they could have
Think the cost of installing the road indications is too expensive for this
country and too many accidents have happened with these cars. Also doubt that
the legal ramifications have been fully determined at this stage.
I can see no reason to purchase a self driving car. People are getting lazier
and lazier. From what I've seen they are still unsafe to drive with several
accidents and also at least 1 death caused by them. They've even been hacked -
imagine being in a self driving car that a hacker has control over. Personally,
I wouldn't get in one let alone purchase one.
I know of at least 2 accidents involving self drive cars. I also know about the
self drive Volvo that broke down on a highway. Someone on BBC World took a test
ride last week and said he didn't enjoy the sensation at all. Knowing they are
out on the road would make me feel very uncomfortable.
Yesterday I was driving through a construction site along a winding road full of
potholes with a posted 15kph speed limit, and if my car was fully autonomous it
would have accepted the speed sign recognition system's determination that the
speed limit was 50 kph. Autonomous cars are going to require enormous
expenditure on adequate road infrastructure, lane marking, signposting, etc.,
whichI cannot see ever happening.
Like much AI based smart tech.... it's not safe enough or foolproof......yet.
There's no doubt it will improve and change our transport and movement options
in future.
As anyone who's ever tried to design an idiot proof system is aware, it's nigh
on impossible. Idiots are fiendishly clever. Not in an intelligent way, but more
in a "For crying out loud, who in their right mind would ever think to do that"
kind of way. It's practically impossible to double think an idiot, they always
shoot off in a direction that only they can see. While ever logic controls the
way we think, we will always be at a disadvantage.
The world's brightest minds trying to design self driving technology that
works, are bound to fail, because they are using logical cause and effect
actions and responses.
Peak hour traffic is the great leveller. All it needs is for some idiot to stall
their car as the traffic lights turn green at a major intersection. Within a
very short time idiots will start appearing. Whether it be a gentle nudge as
they swerve into one of their ilk stopped to see what the fuss is all about, or
driving into the back of the stalled vehicle, shocked at what has happened,
especially as the lights had turned green which means everyone starts moving.
Others will carefully wait until the mess sorts itself out and then roar across
six lanes of traffic who just got their own green light. None of this is
unusual, it's just what happens when cars and idiots get together. No wonder
self driving cars give up and stop.
The only way to resolve the problem is to segregate the two modes of transport.
Let our current vehicles and all the careful drivers loose on the existing road
network. Then send the self drive vehicles and all the idiots to Mars.
