As a biker, I feel MICH safer around self driving cars because I know they are paying attention.
I don’t need to check if they see me. They do.
I don’t need to check if they see me. They do.
With such complexity and unknowns within the codebase - there is likely going to be a much higher amount of variability w.r.t. safety and AI decision making. I'm not so sure I'd categorically say a self driving car from say Nikola or some SPAC'd startup would make me feel all that safe.
(Weird this was down voted, just sharing personal experiences)
I live right near Oracle Park where there was a big Cruise Yard, and there is a ton of traffic and cruise, zoox, etc self driving cars circling the neighborhood endlessly.
It's not as if I've had a overtly terrible single incident. It's as though they're causing unsafe driving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists regularly.
Driving unreasonably slow and erratic, stopping in the middle of streets, blocking traffic, not responding to the need for them to move or respond as human driver would.
They're problematic. I could start a youtube channel or something it happens enough in my day to day life.
I bike by Oracle park almost every day.
Until you're being dragged under them.