Breaking The Rules — Self-Driving Cars Edition
So, this from a recent article on self-driving cars . One woman said that she almost hit one of the company’s minivans because it suddenly stopped while trying to make a right turn, while another man said that he gets so frustrated waiting for the cars to cross the intersection that he has illegally driven around them. The anecdotes highlight how challenging it can be for self-driving cars, which are programmed to drive conservatively, to master situations that human drivers can handle with relative ease — like merging or finding a gap in traffic to make a turn. Let’s think about that for a moment. The car was — almost certainly — Doing The Right Thing. 1. The woman who almost hit the minivan because it suddenly stopped? Well, if she was following the two-second rule , and paying close attention, or was even more conservative , she would not have been surprised at the sudden stop. 2. And the dude who illegally drove around the self-driving car?...
