Abdul Hanaan Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 90% of car accidents has happened from the driver errors. Machine are more reliable rather than a human being. Now Emirate is introducing the driverless cars to reduce the car accidents. A driverless car sensor can detect the road, vehicles barrier, perform job according to the traffic rules and take distance to the nearby vehicles said Glenn Havinoviski, a US transport expert. The driverless car is more reliable for the road safety but the concept is still under moderation. Is this is a good step or not ? Source News: http://www.thenational.ae/uae/transport/driverless-cars-will-reduce-crashes-in-uae-experts-say 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 There are plenty of documented accidents involving autonomous cars, the latest fatal Tesla crash being one of the most famous, http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/30/12072408/tesla-autopilot-car-crash-death-autonomous-model-s I would never trust a computer to drive a car for me. The computerised Dubai train system is a fantastic thing but it's on rails, it has nothing to crash into. The open road is a whole other story. There are just too many variables and unknowns. The Tesla didn't see a 40 foot truck? What else is it not going to see? What happens if the road becomes covered in sand and the car can't see it anymore? What if the white line is obscured? What if there is a break in the roadside barrier? Check this out, an autonomous car almost swerving into another car which is only saved by the drivers quick reactions, There are plenty of other videos showing near misses which were only avoided by the driver taking action. One question I would like to raise is, how many of these people promoting autonomous vehicles would be prepared to give up their own vehicles and travel exclusively autonomously for the rest of their life? I don't think there would be very many. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Technician said: One question I would like to raise is, how many of these people promoting autonomous vehicles would be prepared to give up their own vehicles and travel exclusively autonomously for the rest of their life? I don't think there would be very many. + 1 Million. This is pure marketing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treks Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Self-driving cars may be the way of the future, but as @Technician says, that future is a very long way off. There are just to many things that can still go wrong to make driverless cars a viable transport option in the foreseeable future. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmanahmed Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 I totally agree with both @Technician and @treks , this technology is still in its evolutionary stage and cannot be trusted at all. The real problem is when companies draft marketing messages that are suggestive of a perfect and fully developed system. @Danny rightly called it a marketing gimmick and that what it is right now ... a "Gimmik". Period. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amid Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Here is the latest Tesla Crash Image: http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-in-fatal-autpilot-crash-was-going-74-mph-1784332917 1 Cars My passion If you like my above post, please press Like / Thanks on right side to help me increase my rating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abdul Hanaan Posted July 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 I also agree with the technician the quantity of these people is just a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taqir Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 I will not give up the steering to bots, for the love of driving. Period. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 This refers to another problem with autonomous vehicles, Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gaphttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36912700 Countries, entire continents are constantly moving due to the tectonic plates of the earth constantly shifting. Australia for example as show. In the above link, moves 7cm per year. If some of these cars are relying on GPS to navigate, 7 cm can be a hell of a lot when it comes to road positioning. 7cm can be the difference in passing safely or clipping a wing mirror or worse, a corner to corner head on crash. 7cm can be the difference between driving on the road or putting a wheel off the road into the sand and causing a high speed rollover. Bear in mind that this 7cm shift is every year. After 2 years it is 14cm, after 3 years it is 21cm etc etc. The Australians are compensating for this by overcompensating which means that the GPS position on the road will not be correct until 2020 whilst they wait and hope for technology to catch up which means the GPS system will never be accurate. In my eyes, this is nowhere near good enough. Do I want to be a passenger in an autonomous vehicle which thinks it's 21 cm away from where it actually thinks it is? Hell no. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aatish Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 Damn interesting and its very big of concern for future of autonomous shift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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