Andres125sx wrote: ↑18 Jul 2018, 18:09
Nosense is assuming everybody is capable of driving 1 ton vehicles over 100km/h between people, children, etc.
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There are people who can´t react on a dangerous situation, there are people with no respect to other drivers making dangerous moves becasue
they must be the first always, there are people who´s too old and lost eyesight, reaction times, etc. and there are a lot of people who don´t pay enough attention when behind the wheel to the point it´s almost a miracle they usually arrive to their destiny.
AVs will be awesome both for those who shoudn´t drive a car, and for the rest of humankind as roads will be several orders of magnitude safer
I presume you wanted to say - nonsense is assuming everybody can drive cars 100% safely, well, we're human, so no, but HUGE improvement could be made if people at driving schools would not be taught how to pass the exam, but made understand that they drive (I'm not sure how it would translate into English) - an object of increased risk, experience loss of control (during their learning) - make them understand how much of a danger they are to the surrounding world, but instead the schools are pumping out green newbies who, for the most part, learn to actually drive in the first 5 years or so AFTER they get their licence, not everyone though - and here comes the worst part - because we mostly live in democracies - those who are too dumb and too lazy - support this AV nonsense, because they don't understand the physics, and MAYBE a tiny tiny fraction of those understand engineering and design, and how incredibly difficult it is to actually design a logic and all the required periphery to make it a car drive in fully autonomous mode.
I'm a son of electronics engineer, I learned to read electronic schematics at almost the same age I learned to read and write, and not just read, understand the logic (and little of underlying physics), made an AM radio when I was 6, I do mechanical and electronics design, and some industrial chemistry since then for 35 years, and I think it is a seriously dumb idea to develop fully autonomous cars for public roads as they are now. At one point they will simply become ridiculously complex and with complexity will come all sorts of unexpected behavior and consequent problems. So the solution is to (just as Strad already suggested) make everyone use only fully autonomous cars - and that is just another step forward to becoming a battery from Matrix, and I hope that it will not come to that in my lifetime.
and one more thing - about how not all men and women are not created equal, of course they are not, but I seriously believe that driving a car is not such a complex thing that any of the licensed people could drive nearly faultlessly - the problem is the illusion of safety and all the distractions causing them to think about 99 other things, but driving ain't one of them - because it is so easy, cheap, and everyone can do it, right?
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