" 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 " 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