Driverless vehicles - Will they change cycling in any ways?

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[mjr]

Tesla Autopilot Mistook Train Tracks for a Road, Driver Says - Business Insider – https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-autopilot-mistook-train-tracks-for-road-police-warning-2024-6

 

[presta]

What's claimed to be the world's first purpose built autonomous taxi, not a concept or a trial.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OjZaI-aANE

https://zoox.com/

 

[HLaB]

Have mercs got autonomous drivers?

 

[DRM]

What's claimed to be the world's first purpose built autonomous taxi, not a concept or a trial.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OjZaI-aANE

https://zoox.com/

I fail to see the point in that, after all, who do you have this conversation with ? AI !

View: https://youtu.be/kpuMYqQRVDc?si=QTbcJURpC5Qk2-Uq

 

[simongt]

All you need to do is press hard on the accelerator.

As has already been reported in an article on the mandatory fitting of speed limiters to all production cars.

 

[presta]

There's an interesting video on Twitter of a driverless vehicle running amok after it gets a minor shunt up the rear. It accelerates hard up the wrong side of the road, splattering half a dozen motorcyclists like flies.

 

[MidnightRider]

Saw sometime in the last week (Telegraph or Guardian prob) that Tesla cars have been placed under some restrictions in the USA, as its been found they cannot 'see' adequately in poor weather conditions as they are entirely camera dependent. Other companies are apparently incorporating radar or laser beams (as well as camera ?) so can 'see' better through mist, fog, heavy rain etc, thought their 'driving skills' are otherwise less advanced than Tesla.

I cannot imagine even contemplating sending vehicles out onto the road unable to attain vital info in such common conditions.
How did they ever get permission to test on the road at all, with such dangerous limitations?

 

[mjr]

How did they ever get permission to test on the road at all, with such dangerous limitations?

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The latest Not Just Bikes puts the boot in (the trunk to US readers 😉) to driverless cars. 50 minutes but a lot of analysis, a little frog-boiling and some suggestions about what to do:

View: https://youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0?si=3AxVwMlcxFVLcLKp

 

[Tenkaykev]

Driverless cars / Practical Nuclear Fusion always just over the horizon

 

[presta]

View: https://x.com/Only9built/status/1915020279832596708

 

[Bristolian]

Saw sometime in the last week (Telegraph or Guardian prob) that Tesla cars have been placed under some restrictions in the USA, as its been found they cannot 'see' adequately in poor weather conditions as they are entirely camera dependent. Other companies are apparently incorporating radar or laser beams (as well as camera ?) so can 'see' better through mist, fog, heavy rain etc, thought their 'driving skills' are otherwise less advanced than Tesla.

I cannot imagine even contemplating sending vehicles out onto the road unable to attain vital info in such common conditions.
How did they ever get permission to test on the road at all, with such dangerous limitations?

Yes, there have been a couple of YT videos on the subject and it has been recorded here in the UK too (under test conditions). The use of cameras for vision is a cheap and simple method but (as any photographer will attest) cameras don't see through fog, pouring rain or snow very well. Much better are systems that use LIDAR as that is virtually unaffected by adverse weather conditions, can see in the dark (even without the vehicle lights on) and can resolve much small obstacles that simple optics.