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California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year

posted by mrpg on Friday February 02 2018, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-could-possibly-go-rwong dept.

Justin Case writes:

2,304 times last year (in just one state) so-called self driving cars, ahem, didn't self-drive, according to this report at auto connected car news.

The technology is not safe unless it is monitored by a human behind a steering wheel who can take control, Consumer Watchdog said.

Reasons for disengagement include:
    [a lot of human factors -- which "AI" does not understand]
        * Hardware discrepancy.
        * Errors in detection.
        * GPS signal issues.
        * Software crash.

While 50 companies are licensed to test autonomous vehicles in California, only 19 companies were required to file disengagement reports covering 2017.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:52AM (#632302)

    Yet there are idiots here (especially here on SN) that would mandate autonomous cars and ban human drivers tomorrow if they were made king.

    Bullshit.

    I don't remember anyone arguing that autonomous cars are already street-ready. It's usually "we should use them when they're statistically safer than humans" on one side, vs. "NEVER! I need to be in control!" on the other.

    (What the control-fetishists forget is, while they may be in control of their own car, every day they pass thousand of other cars that they are not in control of...)