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posted by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the five-points-for-blue-hair-ladies dept.

The USA state of Florida has just opened up their highways to autonomous vehicle testing, https://www.autonomousvehicleinternational.com/news/testing/unmanned-autonomous-vehicles-cleared-to-operate-in-florida.html

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a new item of legislation in a bid to make Florida “the most autonomous vehicle-friendly state in the country”.

‘CS/HB 311: Autonomous Vehicles’ looks to remove some of the biggest barriers facing the advancement of autonomous vehicles, including allowing autonomous vehicles to operate without a human presence on board, providing all insurance parameters have been met.

“Signing this legislation paves the way for Florida to continue as a national leader in transportation innovation and technological advancement,” said DeSantis. “I would like to thank the bill sponsors, Senator Jeff Brandes and Representative Jason Fischer, for their work in making Florida the most autonomous vehicle-friendly state in the country.”
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AC (sarc) comment -- I guess Florida is the next state to be bought by the big AV companies. My prediction for the next fatality is an elderly person in a wheelchair. If the victim's family has some money, a big settlement will be made (unlike the homeless person pushing their bicycle in Arizona).

As someone noted here earlier, how many fatalities are acceptable before the technology is developed?

[How many fatalities and injuries are acceptable for non-autonomous vehicles? -Ed.]


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  • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Friday June 21 2019, @11:56PM (1 child)

    by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 21 2019, @11:56PM (#858708) Journal

    Parent has it right. Humans set a shockingly low bar for driver safety. Google/Waymo passed this bar in (no shit) 2012.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday June 22 2019, @04:48AM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Saturday June 22 2019, @04:48AM (#858777) Journal

    [Citation needed]

    And no, Google's BS press releases don't count. I've been reading the actual detailed reports Google puts out for years, and these supposed AI vehicles are always driven many miles by human drivers (with AI off). There is often precious little documentation about why a human driver chooses to drive themselves on a particular trip or a particular day, and even the stats on when human drivers have been forced to take over aren't usually documented in detail about why.

    The last time I looked into this in detail was reports about 18 months ago (long after 2012), and no way would I trust their cars for safety without more documentation about whether the cars were only in AI mode for "easy" trips where weather was nice, no weird unusual construction on route, etc., etc. Even forgetting all.that, last year, Google had less than 10 million miles; I don't know what the current count is. Human traffic fatalities occur roughly 1 per every 100 million miles driven.

    So how could one possibly determine that Google's cars are statistically safer yet, let alone 7 years ago?