Since you can't legally text, or do much of anything else to occupy yourself in most states, I see boredom setting in just sitting there at the wheel and doing nothing.
You can't think of anything else to do if you have your hands free on a long commute? :whiste:
You can't think of anything else to do if you have your hands free on a long commute? :whiste:
You could watch Netflix....get work done...sleep. There's lots of crap you could do to keep busy (or not) in a 100% self driving car.
All illegal as far as I know.
In an actual autonomous car, laws will need to be updated. The driver becomes a passenger in an autonomous car. Passengers can do all those things. I don't feel like the current Teslas will never become autonomous cars with their current sensor suite.
I don't think he was claiming you can do that with what we have today. Today, you're an operator and have to maintain awareness. While learning the system, you have to pay even more attention than if you were just driving the thing yourself.
Liability for the eventual failure and accidents should be interesting.
I wonder what the insurance companies think about even just the Tesla system?
"No coverage for hands free vehicle operation"...
I can see it now.
"Unintended Swerving"
It'll be just like "Unintended Acceleration".
"The car just turned, I couldn't stop it."
"I held on with all my might, but the wheel overpowered me."
"It was super strong, like it was possessed."
"Logs show that autopilot wasn't engaged and the driver turned the wheel 90° with an average of 15 lbs of force and was applying 24% throttle". As much info as that car is capable of logging, I really don't see this being attempted more than once.
Remember the journalist who made up stories about his battery depletion and the logs showed the whole scenario to be fabricated? (All the details were a lie, and he had charged nowhere near the required level to make it to his destination.
this will reduce accidents, but not sure how much it will reduce them.
At Oakley Transport Inc., a Lake Wales, Fla., trucking company, 250 trucks equipped with the Bendix collision-avoidance system have recorded just one rear-end collision since late 2013, compared with eight such accidents over the same period involving Oakleys 250 tractors without the system. Maintenance Director Peter Nativo said the brake system, which costs about $2,500 per truck, recently proved its worth by detecting wheels sitting in a roadway well before an Oakley driver noticed the hazard in lowlight conditions.
Exactly; I am not getting this at all. Parallel parking, I can understand but adaptive cruise control does not seem to be taking the driving out of drivers hand. I rarely use cruise control though as I do not like my vehicle punching the gas when it encounters slight grade in the road. I prefer to drive the vehicle with constant throttle than at constant velocity.
That is scary as hell. Is that the kamikaze insane mode upgrade?
Your driving style is more likely to result in traffic disturbances and is one of the major causes of traffic congestion. Constant throttle will result in speed variation. The effect of you speeding up, slowing down speeding up, slowing down has a negative impact on everyone behind you.
Maintaining a constant speed is the proper, responsible thing to do.
Traffic jams are caused by people changing lanes, not because of a 10 mph change in speed. A person speeding up to 80mph briefly then slowing back down to 60 isn't going to meaningfully slow down traffic like a person driving 60mph switching lanes in front of another driver going 60mph.
I read similar studies as well. Is this what you're talking about?Dammit...I read a bunch of damn studies years ago on this crap. I'm sticking to my guns that I'm right.