" Say you're driving down a two-way street and there's a lorry unloading a delivery in the opposite lane. The oncoming traffic needs to pull out into your lane to overtake.
What do you do?"
See this well argued BBC article
Would you bully a driverless car or show it respect? - BBC News
and I've thought of more below - but I'm sure 100s of others exist - and the software to get there is unfathomably complicated... it's that last 1% of issues that make level 5 almost impossible in my opinion - unless you're going to used a different road network - but then you can't have 2.
This is why I think people will be foolish to pay for level 5 features now when it might be a decade before software can do this (if ever) and the legislation passed to allow it.
Also - selling it in advance is just Tesla helping their margins - and selling undeliverable promises. Installing $500-1000 of hardware (don't believe for a second it's $8k of hardware) and getting people to pay $8000. I imagine it's a $150 graphics card and some low res digital cameras (not like you need 40megapixels) and some sensors - and we know they're not expensive. The rest is software.
But I've thought of some others:
Temporary roadworks on a small road where a bloke in a high-vis is waving the car forward by hand or with a manual STOP / GO sign.
A country lane narrower than 2 cars where there's only occasional passing spots. Who gives way? Sometimes you have to reverse for 100m - but then you find another car's behind you.
A partially blocked road where the car needs to reverse out - eg a lorry delivering something
A country road with a fallen tree blocking some of the road.
A flooded street (burst water main / low dip in a road after flooding etc).
Pulling over for a fire-engine / ambulance to go past. Just stopping might block the emergency services from passing - even some humans panic and stop in the wrong place making it harder for the emergency vehicle to get round.
Weaving cyclists / motorbikes triggering emergency stop situations.
Cats / dogs / lots of pheasants in the UK that can damage a car.
Oh - and something silly - but there's ways people could mess with automated cars deliberately to cause a crash:
Somebody holds up a pretend speed sign saying "Tesla vechiles only
" with a legitamate looking "70" mph sign underneath - even though it's a 30 zone. Would the Tesla use it's map knowledge of the road or read the sign? The human knows it's a joke.
One thing Elon is definitely right about (and was criticized by some) that it's impossible to ever get to zero fatalities.
There's always the totally unexpected
2015 Shoreham Airshow crash - Wikipedia
What do you do?"
See this well argued BBC article
Would you bully a driverless car or show it respect? - BBC News
and I've thought of more below - but I'm sure 100s of others exist - and the software to get there is unfathomably complicated... it's that last 1% of issues that make level 5 almost impossible in my opinion - unless you're going to used a different road network - but then you can't have 2.
This is why I think people will be foolish to pay for level 5 features now when it might be a decade before software can do this (if ever) and the legislation passed to allow it.
Also - selling it in advance is just Tesla helping their margins - and selling undeliverable promises. Installing $500-1000 of hardware (don't believe for a second it's $8k of hardware) and getting people to pay $8000. I imagine it's a $150 graphics card and some low res digital cameras (not like you need 40megapixels) and some sensors - and we know they're not expensive. The rest is software.
But I've thought of some others:
Temporary roadworks on a small road where a bloke in a high-vis is waving the car forward by hand or with a manual STOP / GO sign.
A country lane narrower than 2 cars where there's only occasional passing spots. Who gives way? Sometimes you have to reverse for 100m - but then you find another car's behind you.
A partially blocked road where the car needs to reverse out - eg a lorry delivering something
A country road with a fallen tree blocking some of the road.
A flooded street (burst water main / low dip in a road after flooding etc).
Pulling over for a fire-engine / ambulance to go past. Just stopping might block the emergency services from passing - even some humans panic and stop in the wrong place making it harder for the emergency vehicle to get round.
Weaving cyclists / motorbikes triggering emergency stop situations.
Cats / dogs / lots of pheasants in the UK that can damage a car.
Oh - and something silly - but there's ways people could mess with automated cars deliberately to cause a crash:
Somebody holds up a pretend speed sign saying "Tesla vechiles only
One thing Elon is definitely right about (and was criticized by some) that it's impossible to ever get to zero fatalities.
There's always the totally unexpected
2015 Shoreham Airshow crash - Wikipedia