For at least a number of years it'll be more supplementary than anything for areas with low Uber driver counts.-Localisation and perception in all matter of conditions e.g. terrain or wheather changes, interaction with traffic, pedestrian behaviour, unexpected or unclassified agents (road works, car stopped in the middle lane of a highway)
- Vehicle dynamics sensing, vehicle diagnostics. Any bog standard car will have in excess of 30+ control units (from micro controllers to full on embedded computers). How do you keep tabs on all of them, which one's can you trust, if my LIDAR says I'm good but my RADAR false triggers on a low beam tunnel which one is accurate? Should I slam the brakes or should I drive through what could be a front collision?
- Actuation, how smooth is smooth? I can be within the speed limit and stil scare the crap out of you driving above an "adequate" speed for the environment, you can brake with an ABS pump far better than a human can and avoid a collision at all cost, but the G forces involved would probably snap the neck of everyone in the car, what would be the acceptable outcome in that instance?
There is a lot of complexity in all of this and realistically the only way you can trust the current levels of driverless is by limiting/controlling the environments they are allowed to be enabled in.
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Thus causing road rage among drivers unfortunate enough to be following one. I get the same feeling when I'm stuck behind a bicyclist.
However, most of the time, the issue with self-checkout is the HUMAN, not the machine. Several extremely busy grocery stores near me ripped out self-checkout systems because it affected throughput too much. They went back to cashiers because the cashiers are A) faster and B) capable of judging situations for throughput ("Um, grandma, really, we don't need you to take 5 minutes to find two pennies for that $20.02 grocery bill. Have a nice day. NEXT!")
Amazon, unusually, has this one right. A self-checkout system CANNOT rely on the customer doing anything right.
I still find detection of bagging is often a pain with self-checkout. I expect things are set up to err on the side of falsely detecting potentially unpaid items.
Perhaps, at some point, vision systems will make it easier to not require cashiers but it doesn't work all that well today for large supermarkets.
Has anyone considered that the average driver sucks? And that 50% of the drivers are worse than that?
Self-driving cars have a very low bar to clear (better than average human), and they will probably clear that fairly soon given just how bad normal drivers are.
Once self-driving cars are deployed, it's simply a matter of crunching the data on more and more unusual situations.
I'd also recommend getting dashcams if you don't already.
Looking at what these companies (Tesla for example) do to people criticizing their products - full spectrum, from lie accusations through personal attacks to law threats, i'd say even if you have a recording the situation is still bad. So, we're going to get a confirmation what you just said - their lawyers will do everything to prove you suck as a driver.