So here in Virginia we have "reversible HOV lanes". During certain hours they operate in one direction...then shift directions to enable travel in the opposite direction at a different times - all pre-planned and scheduled.
So over the weekend, Saturday night, was traveling southbound on I-95 on autopilot, when the HOV lane in DC was "northbound". All posted signs indicated this as such with barriers down and lights flashing preventing southbound traffic from entering the HOV counter to the northbound traffic. My car was configured to use HOV lanes:
So here's the story in the hope that others don't fall into the same mistake: Traveling southbound on autopilot in the left lane, with both hands on the wheel, autopilot tried to enter the reversible HOV lanes in the wrong direction without prompting me for a blinker to change lanes, or alerting me to an upcoming lane change. The first time it totally caught me off guard and I didn't comprehend what was happening and just thought AP saw something or acting wierdly so I just stayed in my lane by taking control. A few miles down the road, it tried the same thing, no notification of upcoming lane change, no alert to accept lane change by signalling, it just went left and tried to enter into oncoming traffic, that's when I realized it was intentionally trying to enter the HOV lane in the wrong direction. I let it go one more time to validate warnings, alerts or anything....and the results surprised me - no alerts no warnings no nothing, it just decided to enter the HOV lane without seeking concurrence from me. So obviously, experiment complete, I turned off HOV lanes and it never did it again.
So beware when selecting to use HOV lanes in the menu, it does not have associated logic for reversible HOV lanes. I'm thinking this could be easily done by a user interface or server communication.
Bad on me for forgetting....so be advised don't forget. And don't fall asleep and let HAL 2000 drive like has been shown on the internet endlessly, cause it would have taken the car through the barriers and gone into oncoming traffic....
DZM
So over the weekend, Saturday night, was traveling southbound on I-95 on autopilot, when the HOV lane in DC was "northbound". All posted signs indicated this as such with barriers down and lights flashing preventing southbound traffic from entering the HOV counter to the northbound traffic. My car was configured to use HOV lanes:
So here's the story in the hope that others don't fall into the same mistake: Traveling southbound on autopilot in the left lane, with both hands on the wheel, autopilot tried to enter the reversible HOV lanes in the wrong direction without prompting me for a blinker to change lanes, or alerting me to an upcoming lane change. The first time it totally caught me off guard and I didn't comprehend what was happening and just thought AP saw something or acting wierdly so I just stayed in my lane by taking control. A few miles down the road, it tried the same thing, no notification of upcoming lane change, no alert to accept lane change by signalling, it just went left and tried to enter into oncoming traffic, that's when I realized it was intentionally trying to enter the HOV lane in the wrong direction. I let it go one more time to validate warnings, alerts or anything....and the results surprised me - no alerts no warnings no nothing, it just decided to enter the HOV lane without seeking concurrence from me. So obviously, experiment complete, I turned off HOV lanes and it never did it again.
So beware when selecting to use HOV lanes in the menu, it does not have associated logic for reversible HOV lanes. I'm thinking this could be easily done by a user interface or server communication.
Bad on me for forgetting....so be advised don't forget. And don't fall asleep and let HAL 2000 drive like has been shown on the internet endlessly, cause it would have taken the car through the barriers and gone into oncoming traffic....
DZM
