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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Wait, what's the scenario again? If the computer shuts down in one car or SkyNet shuts down all cars at once?
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No the scenario is I'm playing Angry Birds slightly drunk while my google car propells me down Deerfoot at 100 (ugh, boring) and all of the sudden something happens that causes the computer that's driving the car to fail. I don't know what it will be. Maybe the sensors will break or the computer will glitch (My Android can't go a day without freezing so google better step up their game), I don't know, but something goes wrong.
Whats the plan in case that happens? I'm assuming it automatically shuts down? Now I'm stuck in the middle lane of deerfoot with cars zooming by?
The only alternative is that it tries to pull over, which is sketchy since something is already wrong with computer and I don't want it driving me anywhere or it tells the human to take over, which is also brutal as we'd all have to be ready to drive any ways....
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Originally Posted by Regorium
Why would it take one failure in one car to cause a big accident?
Assuming all the other cars are still working fine, they can avoid the rogue car with much better reflexes and much better control than a human driver.
So you'll have a single car accident. Let's assume that at least SOME of the sensors work, and the car begins to figure out something is wrong, and there are redundant emergency systems. (eg. In a plane, even though your airspeed sensor fails, leading to your autopilot failing, you still have other independent sensors that can tell you you're about to crash and to correct for it.) The car might even be able to sort out its own emergency.
Even if it happens to be an accident - and it happens once a month. It sounds like a drastic improvement over what Deerfoot is like right now.
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How often does a single car accident involve someone slamming into a median at 100 on deerfoot cause their sensor said one thing and in reality something else was happening.