On 21/05/2019 11:33 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
In my experience as an automation engineer, when you automate something
you have to be able to deal with all the exceptions that a human can
manage instinctively. Humans can usually tell that something is
unexpected and has a strategy to deal with it - stop, swerve etc. This
is not 100% fail safe but it has a reasonable track record. Machines
need to be proactively programmed. This is hard.
There is also the state of the driver to take into account. Humans do
stupid things, too, like texting, watching videos, putting on make-up,
etc., most of stupid are the ones that cause crashes. I don't know how
to factor in human stupid for comparison. Or human intent to drive fast
with mates in the car and then killing them when you hit a tree in the
middle of nowhere.
We had a major crash at the end of my street that enters onto the
Princes Highway at 6pm last night. Great timing. No idea what happened,
but there were enough emergency vehicles around to say pretty bad. They
were still replacing the traffic lights when I came through 3 hours
later. My guess: speed on a wet road and trying to beat a light change.
Bad reflexes, maybe after a drinkie after work, and possibly an attempt
to get home after an hour stuck on the Monash. Would an automated
vehicle have avoided this? Who knows?
Jan
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