Whichever Jalopnik staffer that has driven Mazda’s Skyactiv-X should drive this thing and tell us how the two compares.

Everyone cherry picks what they want to progress their agenda. Hell even you the author decided that your own personal scientific models of future projection are superior to the ones the car companies decided are better. This just shows your progressive beliefs being pushed on others. Don’t claim “It’s science” when…

It’s not about need anymore, it’s what can we create and will people buy it. That’s why we have so many dumb useless inventions laying around

Yeah, just like the guns. Some folks aren’t responsible with guns, so obviously the problem is guns. Other folks aren’t responsible with cars, so clearly the problem is cars.

Better driver training and holding drivers responsible for their actions would go a lot further. 

The demand is from industry. They want autonomous trucks so they can eliminate jobs and save a shit ton of money while transporting more goods. The only way to have these trucks are to A) Make a dedicated road system for them to drive on/ make a system to handle human drivers or B) Make it so everyone’s vehicle…

Millions of people die each year from various things; you could make your “argument” about any “solution” for any of those causes, but if said “solutions” aren’t ready, then they need to wait until they are.

It’s actually a good point. Is it some sort of weird corporate peer pressure where they’re all feeling pressure to invest in this technology because everyone else is or have customer groups actually truly said ‘we want autonomous cars’?! Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t honestly know where all of this demand…

All that it proves is that we need better driver education and less distractions.

I have a solution! Stop all this autonomous car bullshit.

We.
Don’t.
Need.
It.

the other issue in addition to this is what looks like an over-reliance on the system—it’s not just that he car itself wasn’t sufficient, it was that the person was putting more trust in it than it deserved, something we’re seeing time and time again with this tech.

It’s supposed to have LIDAR or similar sensors which detect obstacles in front of it - whether or not they’re illuminated. Part of the point of these autonomous vehicles is that they’re supposed to have better ways to detect potential problems than a human driver, and this shows that wasn’t the case.

The Uber crash highlights a couple of important points. First, hard rules don’t work for autonomous cars. Google’s cars are paralysed by people that don’t come to a complete stop at a 4-way stop, and now Uber’s car couldn’t deal with a pedestrian that wasn’t in a crosswalk. These are basic things that are easy for a…

There are 253 million cars on American roads. Out of those, a few hundred are autonomous test vehicles, so I don’t know how you can statistically say that they are “already safer” than human drivers.

Thats a poor comparison. There are millions more human controlled cars than driverless cars, not to mention driverless cars only started testing on public roads a few years ago. Of course there will be more deaths in the human controlled car group. A much better comparison would be accidents per mile driven or…

Lke the other reply said, we can see things the car doesn’t. Like facial expressions. Or leaning forward slightly before stepping off the sidewalk. Where they’re looking. That sort of stuff we pick up in without a second thought

She was killed by a human. The safety driver who wasn’t paying attention to the fact the autonomous tech wasn’t doing its job.

I would imagine human drivers have more ability to think about signs of unlikely or uncommon outcomes. I can see a car in the right lane slow down up in front of me without putting a turn signal on, and know that that car is trying to find an opening to get into the center lane, and from that know that there’s a car…