The thing I wonder about is why all the attention is being paid to driverless
cars. People are killed by often trains train drivers don't pay attention.
Trains seem like a perfect place to develop the technology, you don't have to
steer them after all...
Probably the railroad has too powerful a union...
-Curt
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, 5:14:49 PM EST, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
So, if this 2 or 3 ton driverless hunk of metal runs over your wife or
one of your children, who do you sue? The owner who was asleep in the
back seat or the car manufacturer who built the thing?
Call me old fashioned, but I don't trust high tech all that much. What
happens when the sensors get dirty? My truck has a backup camera which
is a wonderful device but sometimes (like right now) it is so dirty as
to be useless.
Aircraft have been flying along on autopilot for a long while but
professional people who are well trained to react in an emergency are at
the controls ready to do their best to remedy any problem that may
arise. If problems do arise, there is a fair bit of room to manoeuvre up
there. Not so much on a 2 lane highway where one is only a few feet away
from the truck going the other direction. We know people will not
concentrate on the task of driving if the car is on autopilot. They
don't do so good now. They text etc when they should be paying
attention, so we cannot rely upon a "driver" in a driverless car to be
ready to take over if the electronics are not doing a good job of it. We
have already had the case of the Tesla owner who got himself killed by
not paying attention to what the car was doing.
RB
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